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Apple Photos Finally Gets a Slideshow Maker

Apple today announced new slideshow features coming to the Photos app, allowing users to play any set of photos and videos as a slideshow.

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There are options to set the slide duration, transition style, and music. iOS 27 also lets users save any slideshow directly as a video to their ‌Photos‌ library for easy playback later.

Additional new features include the ability to save individual video frames as photos, more flexible album organization tools, emoji reactions in Shared Albums, a view of recent Shared Album activity, and access to full-resolution photos and videos in Shared Albums. Apple also introduces new collections in ‌Photos‌, including Captured by Me and Identity Documents, alongside improved search results for people and pets.

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Top Rated Comments

trusso Avatar
3 weeks ago
iPhoto had this over 20 years ago. So did Aperture. The fact that this is “new” to Photos is ludicrous.
Score: 20 Votes (Like | Disagree)
ThomasJL Avatar
3 weeks ago

iPhoto had this over 20 years ago. So did Aperture. The fact that this is “new” to Photos is ludicrous.
Exactly. Many Tim Cook supporters will find any excuse to praise him for his so-called “innovation.”


Exactly! My iPhone 4S does this on iOS 5. And it also waits to start it and other video content until the screen is cleared of UI elements. Modern iOS likes to leave buttons and sliders all over your photos and videos.
Good points. Since Tim Cook is not a product person, UI has really suffered under his so-called “leadership.” Cook is too incompetent to realize the value of Apple’s decades-long painstaking research that went into making Apple’s human interface guidelines. Proof of that is him firing Scott Forstall and then allowing Apple-pioneered skeuomorphism to be replaced with Microsoft-pioneered flat design, which is what we’re still stuck with today.
Score: 8 Votes (Like | Disagree)
BotchQue Avatar
3 weeks ago
If there would be a way to export those slideshows to an Apple TV, for use as screensavers, that'd be hellacool! :D
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
TVreporter Avatar
3 weeks ago
Just bring back iPhoto - was so much better than Photos has ever been.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
3 weeks ago

iPhoto had this over 20 years ago. So did Aperture. The fact that this is “new” to Photos is ludicrous.
Exactly! My iPhone 4S does this on iOS 5. And it also waits to start it and other video content until the screen is cleared of UI elements. Modern iOS likes to leave buttons and sliders all over your photos and videos.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
3 weeks ago
When Photos came out at the demise of Aperture they promised the earth, but delivered nothing, just left us with a program inferior not just to Aperture but iPhotos, we still aren’t back to that functionality, such a shame, such a waste
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)

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