Category: Photos

16/4/2025 0 Comments

How can I share a video via email?

If you have ever tried sending a video to someone via email, you will probably have found that it is not possible due to the large size of most video files - especially the videos you have taken on your iPhone or iPad. The same applies when trying to send multiple photos.

Here is a quick and easy way to share a video (or a set of photos) via email.

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22/2/2025 0 Comments

A great new AI feature of Photos app that helps unearth treasured photos in your Photos library

I have to confess that I do have a very large Photos library. So when it comes to finding specific photos in that library, it can be a challenge to locate them.

A new AI feature in the Photos app can really help with this.

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6/12/2024 0 Comments

How can I find which videos are using up the most space on my iPhone/iPad and in iCloud?

This week, I assisted a client who had storage issues on her iPhone and in iCloud, looking at the quickest and most effective way to reduce the storage being used.

In particular, this client had a lot of photos and videos - and I suggested that the best way to free up space quickly is to delete any videos that she didn't need to keep, focussing first on the videos that use up the most space.

The Photos app itself doesn't give you way of viewing your videos by size - but there IS a way to do this on you iPhone and iPad, and to then quickly remove any space-hogging unwanted videos.

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6/12/2024 0 Comments

Cleaning up a Burst of photos on the iPad and iPhone

The Camera App of the iPad and iPhone provides a handy feature, to take a Burst of photos - rapid-fire photos that allow you to capture movement, the best smiles, etc.

While it is a great feature, you can end up with lots of excess Burst photos that you don't really need to keep - and that can use up quite a bit of your storage.

Here's how to clean up these Bursts in the new Photos app in iOS 18.

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27/8/2024 0 Comments

Oh my goodness - the new Photos app is so different!

iOS/iPadOS 18 (and macOS 15 Sequoia) are arriving soon, probably around 13th September.

Apple has announced that its next big event is scheduled for early morning September 10th (AU time). They will announce new products (including iPhone 16 range) and the release date for these new versions of the operating systems.

I have been taking a look at a preview version of iOS/iPad 18, and one of the biggest changes is to the Photos app.

It is sure to confuse and frustrate many iPhone and iPad users.

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16/8/2024 0 Comments

How to select photos by Album when uploading to Mail, Safari on Mac

If you have had to select a photo (or multiple photos) from somewhere in your Photos library - for example when you are in Mail, Safari or some other app - you have probably found that Apple no longer makes it possible to see and search for your photos by Album.

An example of where I recently found this incredibly frustrating was when creating a photo book of my daughters wedding.

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21/6/2024 0 Comments

Now you can use the Magic Eraser and Blur features of Google Photos on your iPhone

Have you seen the ads on TV for the Magic Eraser feature on certain Android phones, and wished you had that feature on iPhone as well?

Well, there is great news. You do now have that feature - and more.

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13/12/2023 0 Comments

Adding descriptive text to bottom of a photo so it is always visible

I have been asked this several times in relation to photos, especially old photos - is it possible for some descriptive text to appear under the photo, and always be visible?

Apple's Markup feature, which is available from the Photos app, allows the addition of text to an image. But the text appears on top of the image, which is not necessarily what is wanted. And it's not easy to add a white background to the text, so that it is like a banner at the bottom of the photo. (Here's a members-only tip that show how you could use Markup if you do want to give it a go: Add Text to Photo using Apple's Markup.)

There is a particular app that I use that does a lovely job of this, adding a white background section at the bottom of the photo with whatever text you choose to enter - and even a date for the photo, if you choose to enter that. I have shown some examples from my own family photos in the image above.

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12/8/2023 0 Comments

I have hidden some photos but can see the Hidden album in Mac's Photos app

In a separate Handy Hint, we look at how you can hide photos on the iPad, iPhone and Mac - so that they are not visible in other views. Instead, they are found in a Hidden album that is password (Face ID/Touch ID) protected, providing a great way of keeping sensitive images secure.

Here is where to find that Handy Hint: Hiding photos that you don't want visible in your Photos timeline

A client of iTandCoffee was making use of this feature on the iPad and iPhone, but when she came to her Mac, she could not see the Hidden album in the sidebar - so could not get to those hidden photos.

Here's how this was quickly fixed.

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15/6/2023 0 Comments

Hiding photos that you don't want visible in your Photos timeline

Have you ever taken a photo that, while you need to keep it, you don't really want it to appear in your 'timeline' of photos or your 'Recents' view? An example might be not-so-pleasant medical-type photos. For me, it was screenshots of internet outages and speed tests. I needed to keep these photos, but really didn't want to see them in my Photos timeline.

There is an easy way in the Photos app on the iPhone, iPad and Mac that you can remove such images from 'plain sight'.

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How can I share a video via email?

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Cleaning up a Burst of photos on the iPad and iPhone

Oh my goodness - the new Photos app is so different!

How to select photos by Album when uploading to Mail, Safari on Mac

Now you can use the Magic Eraser and Blur features of Google Photos on your iPhone

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