See the change in the original Camera Roll file.As you can imagine, you can then do this: iPhoto can overwrite the original file, but everything you change stays on the device were the edit was performed from.įurthermore, it’s worth noting that, after an edit has been made in iPhoto, the iOS Camera Roll lets you see the original photo when you tap Edit. I tried with multiple photos, restarted my devices, and even disabled and re-enabled Photo Stream – changes don’t sync across devices.
#IPHOTO IOS MAC#
I also ran some tests to see how the way iPhoto and the iOS 7 Camera Roll handle changes would sync across devices with iCloud.īased on what I tried to do, edits made in iPhoto don’t propagate with Photo Stream across iOS and OS X: I edited a photo on my iPhone and both my Mac and iPad still show the original, untouched photo. In fact, I do think that these changes dramatically enhance iPhoto to provide an easier experience that gets rid of duplicates and makes it a “supercharged Photos app” with extra permissions. Remember when the first version of iBooks for iPad shipped with features that other apps couldn’t implement? The precedent was set years ago, and, honestly, I don’t think that it’s that big of a deal or surprise anymore. Of course, it wouldn’t be the first time that Apple relies on private APIs not available to developers to enhance their own App Store apps. In fact, my theory could be confirmed by another Camera Roll enhancement in iPhoto: the app can delete photos from the Camera Roll, as Apple also notes in the app’s changelog for version 2.0.
#IPHOTO IOS MANUAL#
My understanding is that Apple is using APIs that aren’t available to third-party developers to allow iPhoto to save directly to the Camera Roll without manual export. This makes for a more streamlined workflow and experience, but it raises some questions, so I wanted to dig deeper. In the new iPhoto, Apple has changed the communication layer between the system Camera Roll and iPhoto to allow for a more direct integration between the two: once you choose a photo in iPhoto and make some edits to it (such as an effect), the edits are automatically saved to the original photo in the Camera Roll without having to manually export the edited photo or create duplicates like the original iPhoto did. Even better, if you edit something in iPhoto in the Camera Roll “album”, then edit the same file in the system Camera Roll from Photos.app, iOS will fail at communicating changes between the two, and you’ll end up with two different files in the same Camera Roll like I did.
It turns out, the Camera Roll isn’t centralized at all, as every modification you’ll make in iPhoto will have to be exported to the Camera Roll as a new file. My reasoning was: if iPhoto for iOS, unlike the Mac, can pick from a central location (the Camera Roll), then maybe edits will sync automatically as well. Here’s what I wrote in March 2012:Īfter a few minutes, which I spent playing around with the app’s UI and various editing functionalities, I stopped editing and went back to the main page, thinking that all my edits would automatically carry over to the system Camera Roll. To my knowledge, no other iOS app can overwrite the original file – apps like Instagram, Facebook, and even the original iPhoto (if you still have it installed) can only save edited photos as new files in the Camera Roll.Īs I noted today on Twitter, this is a big change from last year’s iPhoto workflow. I’m playing around with the new iPhoto for iOS 7, and I’ve noticed an interesting change from last year: edits that you make in iPhoto are now synced back to the original photo in the iOS Camera Roll.
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