
The Auto-Fix button is now right on the Photos main toolbar you can now send a photo into an external program (like Photoshop) for more powerful editing a new Imports view shows not just the latest batch of imported photos, but the batch before that, and the batch before that, and so on Memories (automatically grouped and curated slideshows with music) are much smarter now, capable of auto-building slideshows of your pets, babies, outdoor activities, performances, weddings, birthdays, and games and Apple has opened up its “order your photos printed on mousepads, books, and calendars” feature to other companies.

The editing tools have been redesigned and goosed nearly to Photoshop levels you can now manipulate the curves of a photo’s histogram, or edit only the reds (for example) in a photo. Ladies and gentlemen, the Photos app is finally ready for prime time. You end up with far fewer migraines from just trying to surf the web. Every time you open an article that works with Reader, it pops into that format automatically. Page zoom, Reader view, location services, and use of your camera and microphone are among the settings memorized for each site.Īnd if you like the Reader view-which hides all ads, navigation stuff, blinking stuff, competing colors and fonts-you can now tell Safari to use it for everything.

You might like The New York Times site to appear with larger text, Flash turned on for, and so on. This is cool, too: You can create different viewing settings for different sites. Apple says that “Safari now uses machine learning to identify advertisers and others who track your online behavior, and removes the cross-site tracking data they leave behind.” That’s not the only way Safari will frustrate advertisers. This feature works beautifully, and it makes the Internet a calmer place. For each website, you can choose Safari→Settings for This Website and specify that videos are never allowed to play always allowed to play or allowed only if they don’t have sound. Maybe even more thrilling to the world’s Internet surfers (and less thrilling to advertisers), Safari can now auto-block auto-play videos.

Apple claims you can watch Netflix for two hours longer in Safari than other browsers. Apple has continued to work on Safari, its web browser-and says that the new version is the fastest desktop browser in the world.
