Photos library manager brings improved compatibility with the public beta version of macOS 27 Golden Gate. ($39.95 new, free update, 39.7 MB, macOS 14+)
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A Apple virou alvo de uma nova aΓ§Γ£o coletiva nos Estados Unidos, desta vez por conta do sistema de reconhecimento facial do aplicativo Fotos (Photos) β que estaria indo contra a lei de privacidade do estado de Illinois. As informaΓ§Γ΅es sΓ£o do The Sunday Times.
As part of the upgrade, the Home app uses AI to generate summaries of motion alerts from compatible HomeKit Secure Video cameras.
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Apple likely requires the 2TB iCloud+ tier because HomeKit Secure Video already relies on iCloud+ storage tiers. The 2TB plan supports a larger number of cameras, and AI-generated video descriptions would add to Appleβs cloud processing costs.
That makes sense, but it seems odd because the iCloud tiers are named based on storage amounts, yet the feature isnβt tied to how much space youβre actually using. A lower iCloud plan with tons of free space doesnβt get the features, yet a nearly full 2 TB plan does. There are already restrictions where supporting more cameras requires higher plans, but that is at least quasi related to storage.
I reluctantly upgraded to a 2 TB family plan within the last year or so. We donβt store many files in iCloud, messages are set to auto-delete after a year, and I manually offload photos older than a year (except for hearted favorites). Itβs hard to believe given how I remember the original 5 GB free tier once being sufficient, but staying under 200 GB became untenable without a lot of extra work. It doesnβt help that Live Photos sometimes gets inadvertently turned on, so that weβre storing all these little videos without realizing it.
Neste segundo vΓdeo, mostramos o agrupamento inteligente de abas no Safari, os recursos de IA no app Atalhos e a sugestΓ£o inteligente de nomes para pastas no Finder, feita com base no conteΓΊdo que elas guardam. Fechamos com o Image Playground e as novas ferramentas da Apple Intelligence que chegaram ao app Fotos.
Photo editing is getting some of the most interesting Apple Intelligence features this fall. At WWDC, Tyler Stalman interviewed Jon McCormack, Appleβs Vice President of Camera and Photos Software Engineering, and Della Huff, the companyβs Senior Manager of Camera and Photos Product Marketing, in a video that covers Spatial Reframing, Extend, and an improved Clean Up tool, along with demos of each:
The interview goes into depth on each feature and how theyβre enhanced by the integration with Appleβs improved Private Cloud Compute models, sharing nuggets like the fact that Spatial Reframing of photos is possible even if an image is taken with a single-lens iPhone and the fact that Apple includes metadata in generatively edited photos identifying the use of AI and will add SynthID watermarking, a technology developed by Google, to AI-edited photos later this year.
Iβm not a fan of wholesale image generation, which is why I appreciate the thoughtful approach Apple is taking with these photo editing features. The changes are at the margins of the photo and identified as edited using AI.