Apple today released OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 which includes the new Photos app and improves the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac.
With Photos you can:
• Browse your photos by time and location in Moments, Collections, and Years views
• Navigate your library using convenient Photos, Shared, Albums, and Projects tabs
• Store all of your photos and videos in iCloud Photo Library in their original format and in full resolution
• Access your photos and videos stored in iCloud Photo Library from your Mac, iPhone, iPad, or iCloud.com with your web browser
• Perfect your photos with powerful and easy-to-use editing tools that optimize with a single click or slider, or allow precise adjustments with detailed controls
• Create professional-quality photo books with simplified bookmaking tools, new Apple-designed themes, and new square book formats
• Purchase prints in new square and panoramic sizes
It’s easy to upgrade your iPhoto library to Photos – just open the app to get started. To learn more about Photos, visit: https://www.apple.com/osx/photos/
This update also includes the following improvements:
• Adds over 300 new Emoji characters
• Adds Spotlight suggestions to Look Up
• Prevents Safari from saving website favicon URLs used in Private Browsing
• Improves stability and security in Safari
• Improves Wi-Fi performance and connectivity in various usage scenarios
• Improves compatibility with captive Wi-Fi network environments
• Fixes an issue that might cause Bluetooth devices to disconnect
• Improves screen sharing reliability
Enterprise content
For enterprise customers, this update includes the following:
• Addresses an issue that could cause Macs bound to an Active Directory server to become unresponsive at startup
• Provides the ability to set a umask that’s respected by GUI apps
• Fixes an issue installing a configuration profile for 802.1x with EAP-TLS
• Resolves an issue where folders from a DFS share point might “disappear” when viewed from the Finder on some Macs
Security Content
For detailed information about the security content of this update, see Apple security updates.
How to update your Mac
1. You should back up your Mac before installation. To do this you can use Time Machine.
2. Use the Updates pane of the Mac App Store to check for the latest Apple software updates, including this update.
3. Other software updates available for your computer might appear, which you should install. Some updates might need to be installed before other updates appear.
4. Don’t interrupt the installation process once you’ve started to update your system.
5. You might experience unexpected results if you have third-party system software modifications installed, or if you’ve modified the operating system through other means.
You can also download the manual installer for this update. This is a useful option when you need to update multiple computers but only want to download the update once. Manual installers are available from Apple Support Downloads.
MacDailyNews Take: Yes, 10.10.3, and, yes, it is snappy!
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At long bloody last. But I think what held up the update was getting the Photos application right, which is fine with me.
Next up: New rants about what obscure special interest Emoji Apple left out this time. (o_0)
The link in the article doesn’t work.
https://www.apple.com/osx/photos/
Well, it doesn’t take me anywhere when I’m on an iPad. Not sure if it goes anywhere on a Mac.
Tried it manually. Broken. Went to the OS X page and tried directly on the site and it’s 404.
I assume you can still store photos on your Mac, not just in iCloud. Is this true?
Yes
Thanks
It is also a great idea to have a clone backup (even if you are not upgrading your OS). With a clone, you can get back in operation much more rapidly than rebuilding a HDD from Time Machine.
It’s snappier….
Anyone know if Photos will carry over the iPhoto Keywords?
Installed easy, no problems on MBP…..
I haven’t checked every nuance; however, my 2011 MBP won’t sleep when I close the lid: the fan kicks on high. When I reopen the screen, it goes to sleep then wakes back up. A bit peculiar.
Doesn’t look like http://www.apple.com/osx/ has been updated yet to include this release. It still has iPhoto on all the Yosemite info pages. I couldn’t find anything on Photos to read it’s specs. I think I’ll wait until Apple.com/OSX is updated for this release so I can see what it really is. i’ve held off on Yosemite because you have to run iTunes 12. If Photos is really significantly better than iPhoto, that might sway me to upgrade and just live with the worst iTunes app ever.
http://www.apple.com/osx/photos/ is working now. (Page was broken for a bit.)
I’ve been running the betas of 10.10.3 for a long time, and the last beta FINALLY fixed my wifi waking from sleep DNS issues. It appears that this final build also has fixed the problem. It’s about damned time!
Looks like the save sheet is fixed – no longer grows each time.
I hope the Calendar bug is fixed that adding a new item with Apple Script will no longer take 30 seconds.
any issues with creating then viewing events more than three years from now?
I have not been able to see ones i created……
It’s snappier.
No seriously. I use tags pinned to the Dock(did you know you could do that? It’s so, so good) viewed in grid mode and the icons are definitely being fetched faster and cached more consistently.
Hell, the entire UI in general seems to be faster. And it’s not because I did a clean restart. Yosemite had been a little sluggish compared to Mavericks on my 2012 MBP but so far 10.10.3 is easily faster than Mavericks.
I’m liking this. I’m liking this a lot.
What are these, “TAGS pinned to the dock”?
Looks like in Mavericks they added new capability to the old colored Labels. Will have to play with this to see what it can do.
– It certainly feels snappy, me happy 😉
– Photos has no dark theme, bummer. I find the all white interface extremely distracting. Should be a matter of a simple update though.
– Now let’s see whether iCloud drive will start syncing again. It started out so great, until I had a few hundred Gigs on it, then it simply stopped syncing and was not going anywhere. No procedure or trick has worked so far under 10.10.2.
Looks like iCloud Drive is actually syncing again, though extremely slowly. At least something is moving…….
I’ve spent a considerable amount of time over the past decade compiling photos from various sources (usually different cameras or iOS devices) in to “Events”. My photo collection is too big for me to have entrusted the beta of Photo so I don’t know from first-hand experience, but I’ve been told that “Events” will pull forward in to the new Photo, but they’ll be folders labelled as the prior Events. Can any of the beta users of iPhoto confirm that this is the case and otherwise elaborate on how Events are handled in Photo? Also, can I combine pics in to Events going forward with Photo like I’ve done for the past decade in iPhoto?
TIA,
MD
If you couldn’t, that would be a terrible oversight by Apple. Photographs typically cover events.
It looks like it can with Moments and Collextions.
Collections
As far as i can see now all comments entered in iPhoto are simply deleted. That’s ridiculously stupid, as Photos has a comment option too.
By comments, do you mean the Description? (In iPhoto there is “Add a description” in the box before you start typing.
If so I have a lot of text in there because iPhoto can search it and it gets sent to Flickr by FlickrExport.
Remember COMBO update for the best experience.
WOW. 300 brand new new emojis but the IMAP email FAIL persists, broken now for 12 OS point releases despite Cook and Federighi promising fixes, and hosing sys admins and enterprise clients for 2 years. Heck of a job Timmy.
Now that was the longest update ever… like 12 friggin’ hours (mostly download) and they still haven’t fixed the Samsung BluRay issue!!! :-/
Crikey, can’t believe how long this one’s taking. Can’t remember the last time an update from Apple was this slow, they’d seemed to be getting much better at it.
Well, after PHOTOS failed to import my Aperture Library four times (even after disk repairs and space prep), I imported my old iPhoto library from back in the day. That worked..sort of, when it didn’t crash. I can only say, I’m severely un-impressed by the application. It may improve. But for now it’s just a major dumb down and reshuffling. The impression is that professional application development is not where Apple wants to go with photography since this app is basically a shoebox with some basic overall controls (though Levels shows some sort of rough sophistication). It would make sense to me to have a Photos Pro version of the app that provided brushes, better versioning controls, and just more refined tools. I’d even PAY for that version… but Apple seems content to let Adobe have control over the professional imaging and video business. Lightroom (though it has probably the worst single interface in software history) is a far superior tool and while I hate software as a service, all the video editors I know are choosing Premier Pro over Final Cut.
Most people who are choosing Premier is only because they haven’t really tried the new FinalCut. Everything’s not exactly where it was before. There’s a learning curve, but it’s a solid product.
The dumbing down seems to be the trend with Apple apps like FCP X and Pages etc. I sincerely hope Photos will be improved upon in the coming time like they did with FCP X.
ALSO…there seems to be an issue with intermittency…itunes radio plays back SKIPPING, the beach ball shows up, text input is halted and jumpy, and other issues since the latest update.
Sadly, to ME this is a huge disappointment. iCloud synching from Calender to iPhone fails, iMessage does not synch properly, messages I have seen on the computer pop up minutes later on the phone and beep. Mail = unchanged. Sure it still is far better than the Microsoft shit but the true bragging days are over. Anyone else have a buetooth issue with the brand new 13″ MBP? I had NEVER seen a BT icon on a MBP stating that BT is gone, but 2 consecutive MBP 13″ I got (work) had the issue. It saddens me is all…..