Smart Album Support in Apple iCloud and iOS / iPhone Photos Apps
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Staten Island, NY Posted: 4/20/2015 1:00:00 AM
Smart Albums are missing from the iOS and iCloud versions of the new Apple Photos App.
One of the biggest problems with digital photography is that it's getting harder and harder to organize and find photos. That's why I get excited whenever I find a new way to organize my photos and videos.
Before Apple's new Photos App came out, one of my favorite tools for organizing photos was using Smart Albums in iPhoto, which allows you to automatically organize photos without spending hours sorting them by hand.
Unlike regular albums, where you have to manually add each photo to the album, all you need to do to make a Smart Album is set up a series of rules and filters and the Photos App does all the work.
For example, you could set up a rule that says "Month is July and Day is 4", and it will automatically contain all your 4th of July photos, even as newer ones are added. Because you can combine rules, the possibilities are endless. You could create a Smart Album called "Birthdays" that automatically picks every photo from every birthdate of every member of your family. Now that's cool.
The trouble is, Smart Albums can't be created, or viewed on the iCloud or iOS versions, so even if you take the time to create a bunch of cool Smart Albums on your Mac, you won't be able to show them off on your iPhone, iPad or on the web. Bummer.
Oddly, the names of any Smart Albums you created do show up in the iCloud version, but there's no photos in them, so hopefully they are working on it. Once it's in all 3 places, I'll be a happy camper.
Joe Crescenzi, Founder
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