11 Hidden Apple Photos Features You MUST Know!
About this video
Jeff walks through 11 hidden Apple Photos features, starting with a storage hack: select photos, share them to a Shared Album sent to yourself, and use it for storage. He cites Apple’s official help center that shared albums can store up to 5,000 photos and videos and do not count against your iCloud storage limit, so originals can be deleted and later downloaded from the shared album; if shared albums are not visible, enable them in Settings under Photos. Tip two is tagging photos by swiping up and adding a caption, then searching that caption, which is useful for documents referenced often such as an ID or driver’s license. For Apple Watch owners, the Share menu’s Create Watchface option offers a photo watchface or a kaleidoscope watchface, enabled via Edit Actions if missing. Other tips cover using a Live Photo as an animated lock screen wallpaper via Use As Wallpaper, changing an album cover by long-pressing a photo and selecting Make Key Photo, and unifying photo sizes by changing the aspect ratio to Square from the three-dots menu. In the For You tab, Memories music and filters can be changed and the result saved as a video for an Instagram story. For privacy, he advises turning off All Photos Data and Location in share Options, hiding photos and turning off the Hidden Album, or sharing an image to Notes and locking that note with Face ID. He closes with using Filters to find favorited, edited, or video items, and converting selected photos to a PDF by sharing them to the Apple Books app, where the file can be marked up and shared — useful for documents such as medical insurance forms that are only accepted as PDFs.
Key takeaways
- Shared albums can store up to 5,000 photos and videos and, per Apple’s help center as cited in the video, do not count against iCloud storage limits
- Swipe up on a photo to add a caption and later find it via Search — useful for IDs, driver’s licenses, and frequently referenced documents
- Before sharing, open Options and turn off All Photos Data and Location so recipients do not receive the photo’s location data
- For stronger hiding, share a photo to Notes and lock that note with Face ID, in addition to hiding the photo and turning off the Hidden Album
- Convert photos to a PDF by sharing the selection to the Apple Books app, where it can be marked up and shared
Episode details: published November 2, 2021 · 5:13 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Jeff Su’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.
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