The user manual for iOS 10 says explicitly, “People are synced among devices where you’re signed in with the same Apple ID.” (Objects aren’t mentioned.) However, in my testing of the release versions with five devices (three iOS, two macOS) and the same account, no syncing takes place. In the beta releases, Apple didn’t synchronize facial and object recognition across devices Apple’s guidance to Macworld in the summer was it had no information to share. Your Photos libraries automatically examine every image, and associate any of thousands of object-based keywords to an image, as well as recognize and group faces together.
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Once you install either or both iOS 10 and macOS Sierra, you don’t have to do anything. Apple goes one step further, creating movies that are…well, they’re pretty hilarious and may be more accurate about our lives than we want to believe. Photos automatically assembles sets of memories into pseudo-albums, ostensibly saving you the tedium of organizing and culling.
It also now tags images that contain any of thousands of object features, like mountains and dogs. Now, in iOS 10 and macOS Sierra, Photos has become more useful for the most common task after sharing: searching.Īpple finally added content analysis of photos, allowing Photos on both platforms to recognize and associate faces of the same person across many images, and interpret a limited array of emotions. Through many small releases in El Capitan, Photos’ stability improved and features expanded. Photos has long been a snooze of an app in iOS, and when its OS X complement arrived in Yosemite, it was underwhelming.