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Adam Engst 68 comments

WWDC26 Keynote Shows Apple’s Tacit Acknowledgment of External Pressures

Apple spent the entirety of its WWDC26 keynote responding to external pressures, including user complaints about Liquid Glass, community and regulatory worries regarding child safety, and the embarrassment of Siri delays and Apple Intelligence weaknesses.

Adam Engst 8 comments

How to Set Contact Avatars and Posters on the iPhone

Want to make your iPhone’s Phone app and contact cards more visually appealing? Adam Engst walks you through the often frustrating process of customizing contact avatars and posters. 

Adam Engst 13 comments

Tracking My iPhone Camera Usage With a Deep Dive into EXIF Data

Adam Engst investigates whether his choice to downgrade from a triple-camera iPhone 16 Pro to a dual-camera iPhone 17 was justified by analyzing a year’s worth of photos using EXIF metadata.

Adam Engst 9 comments

Do You Use It? Apple Intelligence Sees Weak Adoption

Our Do You Use It? poll reveals minimal engagement with most Apple Intelligence features, suggesting these AI-powered capabilities aren’t yet meeting user needs.

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HoudahGeo 7.0.4

Major update to the geotagging app brings support for adding location data to video. ($39 new, $24 upgrade, 39.7 MB, macOS 12.4+)

Adam Engst 26 comments

New Organizational Features in Photos in macOS 15 Sequoia

Adam Engst explores Photos in macOS 15 Sequoia, detailing how new organizational features like Days, Trips, and People & Pets groups work (or don’t) in practice, along with practical tips for managing your photo library.

Adam Engst 53 comments

OS X.2 Updates Boost Apple Intelligence and More

Apple’s December 2024 updates bring substantial changes across the company’s ecosystem, from new Apple Intelligence features to Mail categorization, enhanced Find My item sharing capabilities, and natural language Apple Music searches.

Adam Engst 24 comments

Enhance Your Images with Apple’s Clean Up Tool in Photos

Adam Engst evaluates the new Apple Intelligence-based Clean Up tool in Photos, highlighting situations where it excels and falters and offering tips for optimizing results. Learn how Clean Up can enhance your photos.

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Photos Workbench 1.3

Adds compatibility with macOS 15 Sequoia and fixes bugs. ($29 new, free update, 5.8 MB, macOS 12+)

Adam Engst 13 comments

iOS 17.5.1 and iPadOS 17.5.1 Fix Photo Reappearance Bug

Apple has released new versions of iOS and iPadOS in response to bug reports that iOS 17.5 and iPadOS 17.5 caused deleted photos to reappear and show blank images.

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Photos Workbench 1.2

Organization and management companion utility for Apple’s Photos adds compatibility with macOS 14 Sonoma. ($29 new, free update, 5.9 MB, macOS 12+)

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Photos Workbench 1.1

Maintenance update for the organization and management companion utility for Apple's Photos. ($29 new, free update, 5.8 MB, macOS 12+)

Glenn Fleishman 5 comments

PowerPhotos Enables Ventura Users to Migrate iPhoto and Aperture Libraries

With Apple dropping support for migrating iPhoto and Aperture libraries to Photos in macOS 13 Ventura, Fat Cat Software has thrown a lifeline to people who still have old photo libraries.

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Photos Workbench 1.0.2

Maintenance update for the recently released organization and management companion utility for Apple Photos. ($29 new, free update, 5.8 MB, macOS 12+)

Adam Engst 14 comments

macOS Photo Screen Savers Still Don’t Properly Display Rotated or Edited Images

macOS has a long-standing bug that causes screen savers to fail to show edited or rotated images from Photos—only the original versions. Ventura still suffers from this problem, and although Adam Engst shares some workarounds, you’re not going to like them.