To see what Apple has to say about the particular item in question, tap on the small circle in the photo, or (on an iPhone or iPad) on the Look Up option in the Info window. What’s that painting? Photos knows-if you look at the third result, anyway. Among the items that Apple’s system will identify are media (including book covers), art, landmarks, plants and flowers, and pet breeds. At that point, a small circular tag will appear (it appears floating above most identified items, though it appears in the lower-right corner for landmarks), and on an iPhone or iPad, you’ll also see them listed in the Info window. To access more information, you’ll need to open the Info window.
Photos identified this London landmark all by itself. The info icon in the toolbar will become adorned with a couple of sparkly stars to indicate that your photo contains items identified by Apple’s new image-analysis system. In an attempt to add an extra layer of context to items in your library, the new version of Photos offers even more machine-learning-based image analysis features. You can tap on these faces to assign them a name, tell Photos it’s misidentified someone, and see more photos of the person. Faces that haven’t been recognized will also have a blue circle with a question mark in their lower right corner. When the Info window is visible, if Photos has detected any faces in an image, you’ll find them represented in small circles in the bottom left corner of the image. Faces, whether identified or unidentified, appear in circles in the lower right corner. On the iPad, the swipe makes the Info window appear out of thin air, hovering over the image. On the iPhone, that swipe scrolls into view below the image. You can access it while viewing a single photo by tapping the info icon in the toolbar (at the top of the screen on an iPad and at the bottom on an iPhone), or by swiping upward. Now the Info window has finally arrived on iOS and iPadOS. On the Mac, you’ve been able to open a floating Info window to drill down into the details-captions, EXIF data, and more-of any given photo. Info window on iOS The Info window has arrived, at last, on iPhone and iPad. The system now identifies all sorts of objects, scans all the text found in images, and exports a lot more of that data into Spotlight search.Īnd while the changes in the macOS Photos app are more subtle than on iOS, there’s one big addition that should please people who use multiple library files. New sharing features make it easy to pluck images out of Messages and pop them into your library-and in the case of some images, they’ll show up in there even when you don’t ask them to.Įvery year, Apple seems to apply more machine-learning algorithms to scan your photo library, and this year is no exception. The Memories feature has been completely reworked into a dynamic multimedia slideshow-though it won’t arrive on macOS until later on in the cycle. What’s new in Photos in iOS 15 and macOS MontereyĪpple’s 2021 updates to the Photos app, both in iOS 15 and macOS Monterey, are fairly substantial.