![]() You can do this through the online Apple ID service. To do this, you first have to disable two-step authentication on your Apple ID, which is a similar-sounding technology designed to protect your Apple account. First, you have to enable two-factor authentication on all of your iOS and macOS devices. It’s great in theory, but setting it up is a little clunky. This new feature works using Bluetooth – meaning only 2013-and-later Macs are supported – detecting when the Apple Watch is nearby. With MacOS Sierra’s Auto Unlock feature, an Apple Watch can be used to unlock your Mac automatically. While the iPhone and iPad have had Touch ID for quick logins for ages, Mac users have had to stick with passwords until now. It integrates so nicely with iOS that it’s bound to be the image app of choice for anyone with a Mac and an iPhone or iPad. Whether you use Photos or not is likely to depend on what other devices you have. With Apple’s app, you have to pay for the iCloud storage that you use, but it will save pictures of any quality, including RAW files. Photos’ big competition is Google Photos, which has unlimited free storage for images up to 16 megapixels, but doesn’t have a native Mac app. The results can either be spectacular or a little strange: my “best of the last two months” album showed a load of screenshots that I’d taken. Memories is another new feature, where Photos will bundle together pics into an album for you, such as “on this day in 2006” or “best of the last two months”. Siri integration means that you can find any images using your voice, too. ![]() However, Photos’ AI will get better over time and, even in its infancy, this search is already a lot stronger than before and closer to the powerful search offered by Flickr and Google Photos. Photos couldn’t find any pictures of monkeys or orangutans, although it could tell the difference between a generic bird and a seagull. I found most of my pictures of lions and leopards, and object searches for “beach” and “house” returned a lot of results of the right types of images. Any feature like this is going to be a bit hit-or-miss, but Photos errs more towards the successful. First is object detection, so you can just use the search feature to look for something by name, such as “bird” or “beach”. Photos now has AI, to help you find and manage your photos faster. Universal Clipboard is Apple using its infrastructure at its best Even so, being able to share anything from one device to another quickly is incredibly powerful. ![]() Speed depends on the size of the data: copy a little bit of text and it’s available almost instantly, but copy a block of text or a photo and it can take a while for the data to transfer via iCloud. Anything you copy on one device is available to paste on anything else. Universal Clipboard is a fantastic feature that lets you share the contents of your clipboard between your iOS and macOS devices. ![]()
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