Photos

Browse, edit and share your picture-perfect moments. Photos is the home of all your amazing photos and videos, and it's smart and personal, with intelligent features that help you find, enjoy and share your best shots.
Browse your library
• The All Photos grid view displays your photos and videos in an interactive, zoomable grid, with options to view by Months and Years
• Quickly filter down to specific content types, like photos that have been edited, or choose to remove screenshots from the view
Browse by Collections
• Below the grid, Collections organises your library by topics, like Recent Days, People & Pets, Trips, Memories, your custom albums, Wallpaper Suggestions and more
• Media Types organises your photos by type, like Selfies, Videos, Portraits and Screenshots
• Utilities gathers photos by useful topics like Duplicates, Documents, Receipts and Handwriting
• Pinned Collections lets you put your most frequently accessed content right at your fingertips
Customise the Photos app just for you
• Reorder the Collections sections just the way you like them
• Choose to add items to Pinned Collections to keep your most-used items close at hand
Find just what you're looking for with powerful Search
• On-device machine learning analyses your photos so you can search for people, places, dates, events and even objects, and scenes like football, birthday cake or beach
Organise your photos into albums
• Create albums of your favourite topics
Relive your memories
• Memories uses on-device intelligence to find trips, holidays, people, pets and more in your collection, and presents them as movies paced to music, including intelligent song suggestions from Apple Music for Apple Music subscribers
Perfect your photos using sophisticated yet easy-to-use tools in Edit
• Fine‑tune your photos and videos with powerful tools like auto enhance, highlights, shadows, vibrancy and definition, and apply edits to another image or to a batch
• Adjust keyframes in Live Photos and add fun effects
• Slow down high-frame-rate videos for cinematic, slow-motion effects
Share with friends and family
• Share to Messages, Mail and third party apps
• Share photos seamlessly with up to five other family members with iCloud Shared Photo Library
• Use Shared Albums to share photos and videos with just the people you choose
• iCloud Links let you send a set of photos and videos with a link that can be viewed on any platform, in any browser
Keep your library safe and up to date with iCloud Photos
• Store your photos and videos safely in iCloud and access them from any device, any time, including iPhone, iPad and Mac, Apple Vision Pro on iCloud.com, or even on a PC
Keep your photos private
• Photos protects your privacy by using on-device intelligence to analyse your photos and videos
• Face recognition, scene detection, object detection and more are all done completely on your device
• The Hidden and Recently Deleted albums are locked by default
Use the Photos app on Apple Watch to access your favourite photos on your wrist
• View and manage your Memories, Featured Photos or an album
• Relive your favourite moments with highlights from Memories
• Create a Photos or Portraits watch face