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.