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Photo management and editing application developer by Apple for OS X.

This app is intended to replace iPhoto and Aperture:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photos_(application)

http://www.apple.com/osx/photos/

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How to access People album used in Apple's Photos app

Apple's Photo app has facial recognition capabilities. I would like to know if an API exists to access the associated data for photos which have been classified by the app.
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Programmatically importing pictures to Apple Photos and modifying Exif data

How do I programmatically import picture files to Apple's Photos app? The reason for this is that I have 20,000 old pictures. Most are in folders whose names have the data of when the pictures were taken or the file names themselves have the date…
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Where can I find script library for new Photos app in Applescript editor

I'm trying to automate something in the new Mac Photos app. Initial research showed that the easy-to-use actions supplied of for use with Mac Automator would not be sufficient for my needs, so I would like to try using the lower level Applescript…
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How do facetiles in Apple Photos that correspond to RKFace.modelId?

I have been digging through the Apple Photos macOS app for a couple weekends now and I am stuck. I am hoping the smart people at StackOverflow can figure this out. What I don't know: How are new hex directories determined and how do they…
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Reading/Writing tags or keywords using Apple Photos SDK

Does anybody know if Apple’s Photos SDK allows us to fetch, or even modify tags on assets stored in the user’s Photos library? From the official docs I understand that the SDK allows us to change the « favorite » status, show/hide assets, or even…
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Apple OSX Script Editor - Photos Suite function make in javascript

Does anyone knows how to use the javascript functions of the Photo Suite in Apple's OSX script editor? The documentation is really bad or I do not understand the way of using it. Doc description: make method : Create a new object. Only new albums…
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Can't fetch Smart Albums in AppleScript after upgrading to Catalina

I've been using an AppleScript to export photos in a Smart Album in Apple Photos for a while now. After upgrading to Catalina, it seems that my query for all albums no longer returns Smart Albums. Specifically, I have a line that loads all albums…
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Apple script to export images from "Photos" application

I have albums and nested albums and folders in Photos application. I want my applescript to export images maintaining the Album or Folder structure that I have the in the application. I tried scripts available online : tell application "Finder" …
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How to deserialize the IPXDefaultLibraryURLBookmark of the Photos plist

So, I've been trying to deserialize the IPXDefaultLibraryURLBookmark of the com.apple.Photos defaults (defaults read com.apple.Photos IPXDefaultLibraryURLBookmark) but no luck. Ideally I'd like a programmatic way in c++ to deserialize that value to…
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Unable to edit videos recorded in default mode on iPhone 13 mini on iPad 2020 8th generation - iOS v15.5

I am using default apple photo & video & camera apps on both devices. Devices run ipadOS 15.5 and iOS 15.5. Video is recorded in "normal" video mode on iphone 13. After syncing the video to icloud and trying to edit the video in photos app on ipad…
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Export Apple photos library for importing it elsewhere

I intented to export all my photos from Mac to any other environment and this suggestion finally provided the base to solve this with applescript. That way the photos are always scaled (getting bigger than the original) but at least it works. I know…
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Error when exporting from Apple Photos with AppleScript: Could not write file to destination

I have an AppleScript that exports images from Apple Photos. In some circumstances, it fails with error "Could not write file to destination (1,001)". I've been banging my head on this and could use help figuring out why it's happening. Here's a…
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How to export all favorited pictures from Photos.app and movies to a zip file

I'd like to export all of my favorited photos/videos on a weekly basis to a zip file or directory. Is there an apple script/automator workflow that can do this that I can schedule to run? Thanks for your response, I've tried what you suggested but…
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What rules do Moments album section headers follow

I'm trying to create a CollectionView that mimics the UI of the Moments album in the iOS Photos app. I'm very close to finishing it, but I'm struggling to figure out what rules Apple are using to create the label for each date/location section of…
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Apple Photos Favourite export using AppleScript

I am trying to find a way to do the following export Current structure Honeymoon County City Album I want to export the structure to say my pictures folder as Honeymoon > County > City > Album > photo names But I only want to choose the…
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