## New - Confirm Faces window. A dedicated window (Window → Confirm Faces) for working through the faces Iris has suggested for a person. Select a person, and Iris shows a photo with their face highlighted. Is the guess correct? Answer with the Yes/No buttons or press the 1 and 2 keys on your keyboard for lightning-fast triaging. The more faces you confirm, the more Iris learns about the people in your library. - Open in Apple Photos. Items that came from an Apple Photos source get a "Photos" entry in the "Open With" menu that reveals the original in your Photos library, including items that live only in iCloud. (Currently, this feature only supports your primary Photos library.) - Redesigned Insights charts. The charts in the Insights section are now interactive — hover over a bar to see its exact count, and click one to browse those photos. Handy for jumping straight to everything captured in a given month, year, or time of day. - Last Seen. Iris now remembers which photos you've looked at. Opening an item in the inline viewer stamps it with a Last Seen date, which appears in the Metadata inspector and can be sorted and filtered on — so you can pick up a triage pass where you left off. It's great for discovering photos you've forgotten about or reviewing large libraries. - "Has Been Seen" filter. A companion to Last Seen that lets you find photos you have or have never opened. - Create a location by address. When creating a new Location from the "+" menu at the bottom of the sidebar (or from the main menu), you can type an address or place name and pick from the suggestions. Much faster and more accurate than dragging around the map. (Thanks to CL) - Filter button in the toolbar. The filter editor is now a popover that appears from a new Filter button in the toolbar, instead of hidden behind a menu item. It also has new Apply and Clear buttons that actually work the way you expect them to. ## Improved - Faster imports. Importing new items into your library is now ~20% faster and uses less memory. - Better face suggestions. Iris is now _much_ better at suggesting faces that might belong to a person. Make sure you've added at least 5 faces to a person so the recognition engine has a good sample to start learning from. You can speed up the learning process using the new Confirm Faces window. (Window → Confirm Faces) - Search improvements. Searches containing an apostrophe, comma, period, hyphen, colon, parenthesis or question mark previously failed to return results. ## Fixed - My quest to hide menu icons on macOS Tahoe accidentally removed them from the "Open With" menu, which is one place they're actually needed. This has been fixed. - Double-clicking a photo in the inline viewer now closes it, the same way double-clicking opened it. - The close button in the inline photo and video viewers moved to the top-left corner and got larger, so it no longer overlaps the video volume controls. (Thanks to AH) - Fixed thumbnails that could stop loading part-way through a large import. - Fixed the "Scanning Library" screen getting stuck when a new source was added while Iris was still processing your library. - Fixed an edge case where deleting a Source would fail to, you know, actually delete the Source. - If the API server is unable to start (e.g., the port is already in use), it will report an error rather than pretending like it started. - Fixed a brief flash of the map view in the inspector's Summary tab when selecting a photo with no location.

## New Features **On This Day** — A new "On This Day" node in the sidebar, just below "No Date," shows every photo and video taken on today's month and day across all the years in your library. The window title tells you which day you're looking at (for example, "On This Day: June 21"). **People groups** — People can now be organized into nested groups in the sidebar. Create, rename, and delete groups from the sidebar's context menu, drag people and groups between them, and add a person or a subgroup straight from a group's right-click menu. Selecting a group shows every photo of everyone in it, including people nested in subgroups. Great for creating families. **Copy an item to the clipboard** — Right-click any photo or video in the grid or list view and choose "Copy" to put its image on the clipboard, ready to paste into another app. If the original file isn't available, Iris copies the cached thumbnail instead; for videos, it copies the poster frame rather than the movie file. **Drag photos out of the inline viewer** — Dragging an item to Finder or another app now works from the inline viewer, matching the behavior already available in the grid and list views. **Overlay person names onto dragged photos** — A new preference (Settings → Special → "Overlay Names") overlays the names of the people in a photo onto copies you drag out of Iris. Names are drawn as black text on a white background, listed in the corner of the image, and include each person's age at the time the photo was taken when Iris knows their birthday. Your originals are never modified — only the dragged-out copy carries the labels. **Sidebar expansion is remembered** — Which sidebar sections you had expanded is now restored when you relaunch Iris. Because Iris can restore multiple windows and tabs, expansion state is saved per window rather than shared across all of them. ## Improvements - Right-clicking a person's face in the inspector now opens a context menu with Edit, plus Confirm or Reject depending on whether that face has already been confirmed. - The "Open Viewer" command in the Item menu now reads "Close Viewer" while the inline viewer is open. - The "Overlay Names" preference moved from the General preference pane (in beta versions of Iris) to the Special pane since this feature is still experimental. - Dragging a large photo out of Iris is faster and no longer stalls the interface. ## Bug Fixes - Fixed the most common crash reported on macOS Tahoe.

## New Features ### Drag photos out of Iris You can now drag a photo or video from the grid or the list straight into another app — Finder, Mail, Messages, Acorn, anywhere that accepts a file. Iris hands over the original file whenever it can read it. If the original isn't reachable — an external drive is unplugged, or an iCloud asset was never downloaded — Iris drags the cached thumbnail instead. (Thanks to Alexis) ### Copy (⌘C) Edit → Copy now copies the selected photo to the clipboard: the file itself, the image, and its filename, so it pastes usefully into whichever app you switch to. ## Fixes ### Arrow-key navigation in the grid and list Pressing the left arrow key in the grid jumped focus to the sidebar at the start of *every* row instead of only at the very first photo, and the right arrow key didn't wrap to the next row at all. Both arrows now move through your library one item at a time and wrap between rows, and only focus the sidebar from the first item. The list view now also moves focus to the sidebar on left arrow, and a sidebar selection can hand focus back to the list with right arrow. (Thanks to EdR)

## New Features ### Filter by orientation A new **Orientation** option lets you narrow your library to **Portrait**, **Landscape**, **Square**, or **Panorama** photos and videos in the advanced filter editor. (View → Filter Items or ⌥⌘F) ### See your lens make & model Iris now records the **lens make and model** for your photos and shows it in the inspector. Lens information is also searchable. ### Create a person from your Contacts When adding a new person, you can now choose **"Choose from Contacts…"** to pull their name and birthdate straight from a card in the macOS Contacts app, instead of typing it in by hand. *(Thanks to AB, MF, C, and others.)* ### Surprise Me A new **Sidebar Surprise Me!** command (⌥⇧⌘9) jumps you to a random spot in your library — a fun way to rediscover old photos. This is in addition to the existing **Surprise Me!** command that jumps directly to a random photo or video. ### More detail in the Source inspector Selecting a Source now shows the total number of **screenshots** in addition to images and videos in the inspector. ## Fixes ### Apple Photos edits now show up in Iris If you edit a photo in Apple Photos, Iris more reliably displays your **edited version** rather than the untouched original. ### JPEG/HEIC + RAW Photos in Apple Photos When available, show the "developed" version of a RAW photo in an Apple Photos library. *(Thanks to JG)* ### Corrected capture dates from filenames Iris no longer misreads sequence numbers in filenames as dates. For example, a file named `2026-06-00025.JPG` was incorrectly guessed as June 25 — it's now handled correctly. *(Thanks to MK)* ### Ghost Videos Fixed a bug where a video would continue playing audio after you switched to the map view. ### Crash fixes - Fixed a crash in the grid view that could occur when an item was reprocessed in the background. - Improved database resilience: Iris now automatically repairs certain internal inconsistencies so libraries continue to open and heal themselves rather than failing. *(Thanks to MB)* ### "On This Day" with no people The **Go → On This Day** menu now shows a clearly disabled "No People" entry when your library doesn't have any people yet, instead of behaving unexpectedly. ### Person age accuracy Corrected a bug where a person's age was calculated incorrectly if they were born on December 31. ## Interface Polish - Renamed the **"Jump to"** menu item to **"Open Quickly"**. - Reordered the items in the **Go** menu. - Reordered the fields in the **Details** inspector. - Fixed the **Help window's** title and default size and position. *(Thanks to JG)*

# New Features ## Iris is now better at noticing when your media changes and refreshes it automatically. - Files edited on disk in a folder Source are detected and reprocessed — thumbnails, EXIF, and ML output are regenerated. - Edited Apple Photos assets are detected and reprocessed as well. - Items you delete outside of Iris from a folder Source or Apple Photos library are also removed from Iris. - New "Refresh" item added to the Source context menu to manually rescan a Source. ## Open Items in other Applications - Added new "Open" (⌘O) and "Open With..." commands to the "Item" menu that let you open the selected Item in an external app. ## Bug Fixes & Improvements - Re-open the Status Window on launch if previously open. - When switching between sidebar nodes, the Inspector panel is better at handling when no items are selected. - Fixed the most common crash on macOS Tahoe. - Fixed grid/map/list and inspector tab menu items being enabled when they weren't actually available. - Correctly count the number of times a person appears "Alone" when viewing their statistics. - ML generated tags are (hopefully!) better at avoiding false positives. - You can now dismiss the "No Locations" card from the Locations view. - Uses the correct Apple Photos capture date when reprocessing changed assets. - Deceased names are now hidden from an item's "On This Day." - Deceased names are now hidden from the "Add to Person" menu. - Support for approximate dates and age ranges when an item's exact dates aren't known.

This update is focused on fixing crashes found in the first release. Thank you to everyone who has been reporting them. - Crash could occur when a photo contained non-numeric characters in the EXIF date. - Crash would occur when performing an advanced search and using "Starts with" or "Contains" on an item's "Filename". - Crash could occur when scrolling the grid view and quickly switching sidebar nodes. - Crash could occur when viewing the Metadata inspector - Improved the performance of the People inspector when viewing a PNG image with many faces.