Apple has just released OS X 10.10.3 to the general public. The upgrade to the operating system, which has been in beta since March, includes the all-new Photos app that was introduced alongside Yosemite last year. It also includes over 300 new emoji, including multiple races and designs for some icons, a revamped “look up” panel, networking and wireless improvements, and more.
The Photos application included in this update marks the end for Apple’s previous photo management apps, iPhoto and Aperture. Both pieces of software have been discontinued in favor of the new approach, which works with users’ iCloud accounts to sync their photos between all of their devices.
Adobe announced a transition path several months ago to help those who relied on Aperture make the switch to that company’s own Lightroom app.
You can download OS X 10.10.3 from the Updates tab in the Mac App Store now. For those looking for a bit of feature parity between their devices, iOS 8.3 was released to the public today with the same emoji icons and a host of other improvements.
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What is “Spotlight Look Up” exactly?
Look Up (The three finger gesture on current trackpads) now show stuff from the iTunes store etc.
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Just finished installing this, so far so good… Wireless wasn’t an issue for me before, so can’t really comment on that, but I can report my Magic Mouse no longer suffers from the stutter / disconnect bug!
Bluetooth still affecting my wifi speed, roughly half with it turned on. But it seems more stable and not dropping to the 0.002Mbps like before
I can’t seem to point Photos to my external iPhoto library. Any suggestions?
I think you launch Photos with the option key down.
Thanks Brad, I had forgotten that.
Skype 7.6.409 doesn’t seem to work after the 10.10.3 update. Is anyone else affected by this issue ?
It’s working fine here.
I have the same problem, Skype don’t open anymore.
I have problems with Skype too. Then I completely uninstall and install back and was solved!
Anyone having issues authenticating google with their OS X after update?
Ok just have to delete then re-set up everything. Unfortunately I’m having major issues with Photos. First part was saying my 40 gb library now requires 75 gb free and since I don’t have it I can no longer use photo apps. After freeing up space I’m now missing folders and projects and have duplicates all over the place.
I too have duplicates all over the place! And sadly, three finger click on word to get dictionary/thesaurus no longer works properly and only shows a few words (you used to click on them to expand)
Ouch… iPhoto and Aperture stopped working: I don’t need this new all-in-the-cloud crap!
I thought Apple told us that iPhoto and Aperture will still work.
(OK got an older Version of both Apps, reinstalled it. I think with all this iOS features in OS X I’m going back to Snow Leopard. I need a computer for working not mobile gimmicks which aren’t meant for true work.
I’m not given the option to even update. The App Store keeps saying I have an iMovie update ready from 3/9 even though I’ve updated at least twice (including again today). I also had issues updating the last couple of iTunes updates where it’d tell me I have updates ready, but go to the App Store only to get some odd error message. I had to update iTunes from the actual Apple site. Assuming all this is connected, right?
Photos is really disappointing. I wish they had invested more time on photo management instead of sharing photos “with all your devices,” which is not really important to me.
So photos. Dumbed down for……?
Photos, replacing Aperture? Surely not? It’s no more than a glorified file finder with minimal unusable alterations. I expected less than Aperture, but not this much less. Please apple, either continue with aperture, or replace it with something usable. I’m extremely disappointed, to say the least.
Just downloaded 10.10.3 and Illustrator and photoshop workspaces don’t work, how do I fix this?
Not updating beyond 10.9.5. Apple has forgotten some of us use computers to get actual work done.
I will have to stop using Photos and get back to Aperture/iPhoto:
– no more Places
– you cannot edit the location of a single photo, whether or not it has GPS information in it or not
– albums have essentially lost meaning as it seems the whole app is working more based on time/date and location, assuming that all pics come from an iPhone
– Photostream is not shown separately and it is difficult to understand if the pics in it have been imported or not
– when you import pictures from folders, they are not separated in albums or events, based on whatever date/time combination or the folders they come from, instead they are all thrown into “photos” with the caveats above (particularly not helpful when importing old printed scanned pics, or pics from cameras that do not have GPS function)
– when using iTunes to sync a subset of my content and choose “last week” content, although I have only 10 pics from last week, it wants to sync 1857 pics – database corrupted? repair didn’t do anything and reimporting in a new library has the caveats above mentioned
– when adding e.g. the “last 6 months” of pics, they are not split in the iPhone in events/albums, but all go into “moments” – and if edits to pics where done 2-3 weeks after taking the pic, the edits show separate from the rest, although they are part of the same folder to begin with
– last but not least, when adding e.g. the “last 6 months”, if you select some additional albums, those will be added in their albums – what is the logic here? and where is the option “last x events”
At least Photos is faster and requires far less memory than Aperture/iPhoto.
But to me it looks like a half-baked program, requiring a lot of refinig and seems to be more inteded to somebody who takes selfies with the iPhone rather than a tool to manage your picture library, pro or not. The features missing and the non logical way to sync and organise and import pics, are confusing to say the least.
In the meantime it seems to me that Apple is focusing only on selling the iWatch at 18.000€, for a “watch” that will not work anymore in 3-4 years the most, with electronics which are due to be obsolete in about 1 year, and on which you can read the time as watch, for no more than 2-3 days without charging. And even spending 3-500€ would be too much – I have already a phone telling me the time, and everything else.
Anyone experiencing longer time while booting to login screen after update?
So far as I can say is “big whoop!” Once again Apple releases an “update” with less functionalism then the previous product but Claims its an improvement because I can now share it across the cloud to all my devices. Frankly I’m not interested in that. I’ve already had my iTunes music collection trashed by iTunes Match. I have no desire to let them do the same to my photo collection.
I hate it
I updated 2 Macs. One updated fine. The other had issues and got the flashing folder with a question mark. Luckily I had a Time Capsule backup and was able to reformat and get back up and running. The Time Capsule restore was taking forever through Migration Assistant even on wireless ac (didn’t have an Ethernet adaptor to hand). In the end I located the files on Time Capsule and dragged them across. Not really the weekend I had planned.
This is the first update I have had issues with since owning a Mac in 2006. I guess this kind of thing will happen and now I will be 100% sure to take backups before an update. I don’t think it was a hardware problem. Maybe it was my configuration or because I accidentally yanked the MagSafe half way through despite having enough battery?
The new “Photos” app is a complete abomination.
The Photos app DROPS many features from iPhoto. From a “features” perspective, it honestly feels half-baked, like it hasn’t gone through Quality Assurance. A replacement or “upgraded” product should *never* feel like it’s missing key features. This one does.
Below are features I’ve already found that vanished from iPhoto to Photos:
1) Can no longer add/edit location info if it’s not already tagged to the photo. The icon to edit only shows up if there IS location info…can’t add if missing). Get Info ONLY shows fields for Location Info IF IT’S ALREADY THERE. Used to be able to ADD it to photos.
2) Complete loss of any batch actions except for Date/Time. Did you just go to Paris, took 500 photos and want to assign even simple names like “Paris – 01,” “Paris – 02,” etc…? With iPhoto, this was a trivial task. WIth Photos, you are now stuck with MANUALLY RENAMING FIVE HUNDRED PHOTOS, one at a time. Have fun!!!
3) There’s no longer a way to “Show/Hide Hidden Photos”. You can mark them and unmark as Hidden, but I can’t find a way to toggle the view.
4) Events are essentially gone. You can still access your old iPhoto events through what looks like an Album (labeled “iPhoto Events”), but most of the Event-related functionality is gone, and new photos are no longer categorized as Events.
5) Many of the Export options are gone. I used the “Export to a Web Page” option ALL THE TIME. Gone.
6) 2) iPhoto kept your photos in Events, which worked beautifully. Because with Photos the date/time is the almighty ruler of Photo organization, you are massively and horribly SCREWED if the date/time on your camera is wrong. I hit this on a recent Caribbean cruise. I used two cameras….a Canon DSLR, and a Panasonic ZS-20 compact camera. The date was apparently wrong on the Panasonic, so now I have hundreds of pictures of St. Kitts hopeless intermingled with hundreds of pictures of Puerto Rico. This would have never happened in iPhoto.
So, the obvious questions are:
1) How in the name of Jobs did this app get out the door with the above (and many other) massive flaws???
2) When are we possibly going to get even the first update to this joke of an app?
3) Have they done the right thing and fired the entire team responsible for doing quality control on this pathetic joke?
So, if you have options…avoid the new Mac OS X “Photos” app at all costs.
Craig