

(Dropcam engineers: Note, while it’s possible to share these videos and download them on other devices, it’s not possible to save them direct to an iOS device. Then I figured I’d import them onto my iPad using Photos. But that wasn’t possible through the Dropcam app, so I had to save them using Safari on my Mac. While these movies can be viewed within the Dropcam app, it’s never safe to assume there will be functional Wi-Fi when you’re giving a presentation, so I decided to save them to my device. But without any specific photo missing, I just shrugged and moved on.įast forward to a couple of days later, and I’m trying to save a few Dropcam videos onto my iPad to show during a presentation. I couldn’t think of anything I was necessarily missing (and truth be told, I had excised a chunk of about seven years from my cache), though it didn’t seem possible that Photos could be this good at displaying, reordering, and resizing all 15,000 of my memories at once. The most impressive part of the interface is how it renders your pictures instantly, turning icon-sized images into full-fledged photos in a snap.īut as with any update, I had this nagging feeling that Photos somehow didn’t have all my pictures in it. Using the Mac’s touchpad, you can pinch and spread your fingers to zoom out and in on your images, respectively, just as you would if you were browsing your photos on an iOS device. This app makes you fall in love with your forgotten photos all over again.

I personally have more than 15,000 in my library. And let’s face it, after six generations of iPhones, with high-quality DSLRs and action-cams aplenty, most of us have more pictures than we’ll ever need, let alone look at again. Upon first glance, the new Mac Photos app is an enormous improvement when it comes to handling massive amounts of images.
