The Photos App for iPhone is AMAZING! Here's how to use it!

The Photos App on your iPhone is super powerful, but I reckon most people don't really know how to use it (that's certainly the feedback I get, when I speak to 99% of iPhone users). So in this video, we're going to take a deep-dive into the Photos app for iPhone.

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Chapters;
0:00 - Intro
0:58 - Basic Navigation
4:12 - Photo Search
5:22 - Captions
6:14 - iCloud Albums
8:25 - Favourites
8:56 - Media Types
9:50 - Utilities
11:17 - Hidden Album
12:22 - Editing Photos
13:57 - Live Photo Editing
14:45 - Live Photo Wallpaper
15:45 - Memories
17:26 - Photo Info
18:20 - Visual Lookup
19:00 - Live Text

[mraymo]

Whenever I take photos of my very young kids, I always use the burst option. Then in the Photos app I can easily select the photo within the burst where they’re both looking, or smiling, or there’s no blur. Then I can discard the other photos and I almost always get a good photo from my kids.

The iPhone also makes suggestions on what they think the best photos of the burst are. They’re usually pretty spot on, too.

[dallasyoung]

TIP: When selecting multiple photos, you can drag your finger across each row to select all the photos you drag your finger across. If you continue dragging but now downward, it will select the next row and so forth. Drag in the reverse directions to deselect. Try it out!

[julz]

I have an acquired brain injury so I use my iPhone to capture images of my day to day, so that I can aid my short term memory issues. It’s been an absolutely essential tool for me to use so that I can find my car or have visual cues to access my memories. I love the memory videos my iPhone can collate for me, I honestly don’t know what I would do without my iPhone camera, and the simple things the Photo App can perform is perfect for me.
Your video was great, giving me a few things I didn’t already know about. I’m in Australia, and the sparkle ✨ info tab works here too. I like to find out the names of plants and that works brilliantly. I love that Live Photo tip you shared too for setting as Wallpaper 👌🏽❤️

[ProfNoetigenfalls]

Very helpful, thank you. One thing I found out about recently is that in order to search for photos by text included, you can’t do this from the photo app. Instead you have to go to your Home Screen and swipe downward to access the general search box.

[katherineevans]

That's the best 20 minutes I've spent at my computer ever! Thank you very much. Going to check if you have one for managing/sorting through over 20, 000 images

[marks]

A tutorial about Photo Duplicates would be nice. Your videos are so helpful, easy to follow, and really work. Well done!

[catherinerye]

Great tips as always. Just one thing that I only discovered recently - with a Live photo you can pick and choose which frame you want as your key photo with the icon just next to the adjustment setting. Very useful if you take a nice photo of someone but they’ve blinked at the wrong moment!

[DavidWeinstein-rirv]

THANK YOU so much!! As an slr/dslr photographer for 40 years I'm now entering more serious iphone photography. I've taught digital photography the past 2 years at UNLV in the OLLI program and in the fall I'll be teaching my first phone photography class. Boy do I have a lot to learn! Thank you for so many tips, tricks and hints I can pass on to the students. Ever so grateful. Keep up the great work.

[foxdavani]

I've been using an iohone on and off for a decade now and this video had some really useful things I never knew. By the way, I love how you tied the square space ad into the video. Ive used them before and they are awesome. Keep on going my friend. You have a very calming voice that makes your videos very nice to listen to while experimenting with my iphone.

[scomti]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. There is so much to learn for someone like me who is in her 70's. Your video is very helpful. I hope to be able to apply your instructions well and make use of the photos app better.

[simonknight]

You’re production values, script and advice are so thoughtfully and excellently put together. Great work. Will now be sending to all family members who ask for ‘tech support’ before going to their houses. Thanks

[vickienipp]

I am amazed! yes i'm old and still learning the simpelest things on my phone so i am so happy to have found this channel Thank you so much

[sodbuster]

Great video. On thing that was not covered was in the markup section. In addition to the pens, pressing the + button allows you to add stickers, description, add text, signature, or shapes.

[PaulMarentette]

A most articulate presentation. I am very impressed by the content, your superb delivery, and the top notch production values.

[ekspert]

If you compare it to the photo album app in Android, the one in Iphone are miles behind. If you want to create an specific album, and copy the photos to that album from another one, then delete the photos from that other album, all photos will be deleted, in both album's. The same thing if you move the photos. I don't want the same photos in two albums, I want specific photos in the specific albums, and only there.

[marymaryquitecontrary]

I didn't know at least 90% of this! Now I might get around to organizing photos enough to not embarrass myself (non)locating an individual photo to show a friend.

[CyclingOffToSomewhereIDK]

I love this video. Several things were shown that I didn't know. I accidentally discovered (had a thought, experimented, it worked) that if you add a caption to the photo you can search for a word in the caption. Thanks for the reminder 🙂 Good stuff over all

[stevencowles]

Thanks, I’ve always been a ‘scroller’ and frequently give up. Time for some thought about organisation.

[loriw]

This was so cool, thank you. I’m 61 years old so I didn’t grow up with this technology and it’s great to have it explained so well that even I can understand it!

[carstenpxi]

You should also have noted the slider control on the magic wand. It does wonders in tuning the wand, both to the left and the right. An often overseen tool.