• invitations always lost in the ether. Like always.
  • no way to prevent adding duplicate photos into an album
  • no like/comment notifications (I checked, the setting is on
  • no way to let others invite more people to the album
  • default sort is by added date… I can kinda see this but really any time after first viewing the pics you want them chronologically
  • no iCloud.com support. I guess I should expect this, I’m not sure what iCloud.com is even for lol
  • This_Comedian3955@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Photos in general is terrible at basically everything once you start to use it more extensively, ie more than the average person who just takes pictures of their friends every now and then and scrolls back through the camera roll.

    Shared albums suck. Album sorting sucks. iCloud syncing works most of the time, but there’s no obvious way to force a sync, which is useful if you want to upload a big album to your phone from your DSLR for example. It should also be way easier to separate junk pictures from nice ones (ie stuff you save because you need to remember a serial number).

    The idea apple has talked about before is having this stuff sorted without you having to do too much or be too involved with it, but in reality their in-built features and UI design doesn’t work and even gets in the way if you try to do things properly.

    Photos is one of my key gripes with Apple tbh.

    • paradoxally@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Also why can’t you create folders in the hidden album? That makes zero sense, I can put photos there but I can’t organize them once they are in there?

    • FunkDaddy@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I loved the “events” auto-grouping feature from iPhoto. Everything was so organized. Now it’s just a wall of photos and I have to make all the albums myself.

    • ClockworkAeroplane@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      If only they had a nice photos app. One that had all the features of Photos, but also dealt with DSLR imports better. Maybe a way to hide unnecessary pictures of something without deleting them… Maybe allowing you to just advance through your photos and categorize them with a couple keystrokes, etc.

      To differentiate it from Photos, they could make a name that had something to do with cameras instead, like “Shutter,” or “Lens,” or maybe Aperture.

      I’d pay money for that.

      Oh wait… I already did. I wonder where it went?