Photos
Photo & Video
Free
Browse, edit and share your picture-perfect moments. Photos is the home of all your amazing photos and videos, and it's smart and personal, with intelligent features that help you find, enjoy and share your best shots.*
Browse your library
• The Library tab displays your photos and videos in an interactive, zoomable grid, with options to view by Months and Years
• Quickly filter down to specific content types, like photos that have been edited, or choose to remove screenshots from the view
Browse by Collections
• The Collections tab organises your library by topics, like Recent Days, People & Pets, Trips, Memories, your custom albums, Wallpaper Suggestions and more
• Media Types organises your photos by type, like Selfies, Videos, Portraits and Screenshots
• Utilities gathers photos by useful topics like Duplicates, Documents, Receipts and Handwriting
• Pinned Collections lets you put your most frequently accessed content right at your fingertips
Customise the Photos app just for you
• Reorder Collections sections and choose a size to enjoy just the way you like them
• Choose to add items to Pinned Collections to keep your most-used items close at hand
Find just what you're looking for with powerful Search
• On-device machine learning analyses your photos so you can search for people, places, dates, events and even objects, and scenes like football, birthday cake or beach
Organise your photos into albums
• Create albums of your favourite topics
Relive your memories
• Spatial scenes let you view your photos with a delightful 3D effect
• Memories uses on-device intelligence to find trips, holidays, people, pets and more in your collection, and presents them as movies paced to music, or create the memory you want to see using Apple Intelligence
Perfect your photos in Edit
• Fine‑tune your photos and videos with powerful tools like auto enhance, highlights, shadows, vibrancy and definition, and apply edits to another image or to a batch
• Remove distractions with a tap using Clean Up
• Slow down high frame rate videos for slow motion effects
Share with friends and family
• Share to Messages, Mail and third party apps
• Share photos seamlessly with up to five other family members with iCloud Shared Photo Library
• Use Shared Albums to share photos and videos with just the people you choose
• iCloud Links let you send a set of photos and videos that can be viewed on any platform, in any browser
Keep your library safe and up to date with iCloud Photos
• Store your photos and videos safely in iCloud and access them from any device, any time, including iPhone, iPad and Mac, Apple Vision Pro on iCloud.com, or even on a PC
Keep your photos private
• Photos protects your privacy by using on-device intelligence to analyse your photos and videos
• Face recognition, scene detection, object detection and more are all done completely on your device
• The Hidden and Recently Deleted albums are locked by default
Use the Photos app on Apple Watch to access your favourite photos on your wrist
• Relive your favourite moments with highlights from Memories
• Create a Photos or Portraits watch face
*Not all features are available on all iPhone or iPad models. Refer to your device’s user guide for information on feature support.
The developer, Apple, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Contacts
- User Content
- Identifiers
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Location
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
- Other Data
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Apple Distribution International
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 10.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 10.0 or later.
• iPhone 5S
• iPhone 6
• iPhone 6 Plus
• iPhone 6S
• iPhone 6S Plus
• iPhone SE (1st generation)
• iPhone 7
• iPhone 7 Plus
• iPhone 8
• iPhone 8 Plus
• iPhone X
• iPhone XS
• iPhone XS Max
• iPhone XR
• iPhone 11
• iPhone 11 Pro
• iPhone 11 Pro Max
• iPhone SE (2nd generation)
• iPhone 12 mini
• iPhone 12
• iPhone 12 Pro
• iPhone 12 Pro Max
• iPhone 13 Pro
• iPhone 13 Pro Max
• iPhone 13 mini
• iPhone 13
• iPhone SE (3rd generation)
• iPhone 14
• iPhone 14 Plus
• iPhone 14 Pro
• iPhone 14 Pro Max
• iPhone 15
• iPhone 15 Plus
• iPhone 15 Pro
• iPhone 15 Pro Max
• iPhone 16
• iPhone 16 Plus
• iPhone 16 Pro
• iPhone 16 Pro Max
• iPhone 16e
• iPhone 17 Pro
• iPhone 17 Pro Max
• iPhone 17
• iPhone Air
• iPhone 17e
• iPhone 18 Pro
• iPhone 18 Pro Max
• iPhone Duo - iPad
Requires iPadOS 10.0 or later.
• iPad Air
• iPad Air Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad mini 2
• iPad mini 2 Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Air 2
• iPad Air 2 Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad mini 3
• iPad mini 3 Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad mini 4
• iPad mini 4 Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro (12.9‑inch)
• iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro (9.7‑inch)
• iPad Pro (9.7‑inch) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad (5th generation)
• iPad (5th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (2nd generation)
• iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (2nd generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro (10.5‑inch)
• iPad Pro (10.5‑inch) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad (6th generation)
• iPad (6th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro (11‑inch)
• iPad Pro (11‑inch) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (3rd generation)
• iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (3rd generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad mini (5th generation)
• iPad mini (5th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Air (3rd generation)
• iPad Air (3rd generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad (7th generation)
• iPad (7th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro (11‑inch) (2nd generation)
• iPad Pro (11‑inch) (2nd generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (4th generation)
• iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (4th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Air (4th generation)
• iPad Air (4th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad (8th generation)
• iPad (8th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro (11-inch) (3rd generation)
• iPad Pro (11-inch) (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (5th generation)
• iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (5th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad mini (6th generation)
• iPad mini (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad (9th generation)
• iPad (9th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Air (5th generation)
• iPad Air (5th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad (10th generation)
• iPad (10th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro (11‑inch) (4th generation)
• iPad Pro (11‑inch) (4th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (6th generation)
• iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (6th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Air 11-inch (M2)
• iPad Air 11-inch (M2) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Air 13-inch (M2)
• iPad Air 13-inch (M2) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro 11-inch (M4)
• iPad Pro 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro 13-inch (M4)
• iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad mini (A17 Pro)
• iPad mini (A17 Pro) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad (A16)
• iPad (A16) Wi-Fi+ Cellular
• iPad Air 11-inch (M3)
• iPad Air 11-inch (M3) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Air 13-inch (M3)
• iPad Air 13-inch (M3) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro 11-inch (M5)
• iPad Pro 11-inch (M5) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro 13-inch (M5)
• iPad Pro 13-inch (M5) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Air 11-inch (M4)
• iPad Air 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Air 13-inch (M4)
• iPad Air 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular - iPod touch
Requires iOS 10.0 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 6.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Contains
Messaging and Chat
User-Generated Content
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