Apple’s Photos app is getting customized with the iOS 18 update which will include some AI features.
One app getting a new look in iOS 18 is the Photos app. Three Apple executives sat down to discuss the redesigned app with The National. The trio consisted of Jon McCormack, vice president for camera and photos at Apple’s software engineering team, Della Huff, manager of camera and photos at Apple’s product marketing team, and Billy Sorrentino, senior director at Apple’s human interface design unit.
The redesigned Photos app will be found on iOS 18, iPadOS 18 and MacOS Sequoia and will be powered by Apple Intelligence. The latter is what the company is calling its first dive into the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Sorrentino, talking about the AI-based Photos app, said, “As our features, users, and libraries have grown, so has the density of the [Photos] app. So rather than hunt and peck throughout, we’ve created a simple streamlined single view photos experience based on deep intelligence.” Everything that Apple is doing to the Photos app is being done with one goal in mind and Sorrentino says, “Ultimately, we wanted to remove friction.
