12 New Features in Mac Photos

Apple added a whole bunch of new features in the Mac Photos app with macOS Ventura. Learn how to find duplicates, remove the background, copy and paste adjustments and much more.

Comments: 16 Responses to “12 New Features in Mac Photos”

    nick
    2 years ago

    Hey Gary, I'm not sure how the Sharing option in Photos is different from what was already available. Our family has been sharing photos albums for a while, and it's not apparent to me how this new feature is different. Thx.

    2 years ago

    Nick: See my video on it here and hopefully that will explain it: https://macmost.com/how-to-use-the-new-icloud-shared-photo-library.html

    Jason Gold
    2 years ago

    Gary -- Is there a way to merge duplicates in bulk? Photos found 3,000+ dups in my collection! It's taking me a long time to merge each pair/group. Thanks. Jason

    2 years ago

    Jason: Yes there is, but I highly recommend against using it. Photos are too valuable. Go in and make sure before you delete. 3000 can be done 100 at a time (50 duplicates) here and there and eventually you'll be done.

    Juan
    2 years ago

    Hi Gary, the copy and paste option is only applicable under adjustment feature, crop and/or leveling are not enabled?

    2 years ago

    Juan: Right. It only makes sense for adjustments. You typically wouldn't want to crop different images to the same thing.

    Juan
    2 years ago

    I was thinking on timelapse photo process.

    2 years ago

    Juan: Oh, I see. But you'll need to take the photos into another app to do that anyway, so might as well do the cropping there.

    Norm
    2 years ago

    Is there anyway while viewing photos in your library to determine whether a particular photo is in an album. When I used Photoshop in the past it would show under the photo (like titles) if the photo was in an album. I guess when in doubt, you can always move to the album of choice - it won't duplicate the photo in the album. Thanks for showing the new features.

    2 years ago

    Norm: Yes, there's no way to see a list of albums a photo is already in. But placing there again won't duplicate it or anything like that, so no harm.

    Mark Flannery
    2 years ago

    I have Ventura 13.0.1. In Photos 8.0, there is no Duplicates album as shown in your video. What am I missing?

    2 years ago

    Mark: Watch the video and I explain at 1:32.

    Bill Ferrol
    2 years ago

    Hi Gary I used the find duplicates photos and merged them. One thing that did happen which I wasn't aware of was the merged photo took on the date of merging and now I have a bunch of photos from 2016 to date that are all showing the date in March 23 that I merged them in the 'get info' option. Were you aware of this and is there any way of retaining the original dates the photos were taken? Many thanks. Bill

    2 years ago

    Bill: Are you sure they changed? I haven't seen that before. The photo date should remain the same.

    Bill Ferrol
    2 years ago

    Hi Gary I just checked and I have over 200 merged photos with the same date and the times are within seconds of each other as I completed the merges.

    2 years ago

    Bill: But where exactly are you checking the date and time? For instance, the file date and time are not the same as the metadata date and time and that is not the same as the Photos library date and time.

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