August 2019 • Macworld 109HELP DESKaffect iPhone XR owners, and hit people who have
a later macOS installed and iTunes 12.8.
The solution appears to be downloading iTunes
12.8 directly from Apple (fave.co/2L88lBL),
deleting the installed version of iTunes, and
then installing the downloaded one. While this
wouldn’t seem to make a difference, it was
apparently the solution for many people for
whom nothing else worked.
What happens when you delete
an album in the Mac’s Photos app?
Deletion seems so final, and it’s worthwhile to
pause a moment and reflect before clicking any
Delete button or selecting any Delete menu item.
In Photos for macOS, you’re presented with many
opportunities to delete items and collections, but
Apple fortunately spells out the effects.
One area that confuses people regularly is
how Photos deletes albums – both the regular
static kind and ‘smart’ albums that use criteria to
select what appears within them. Surely, deleting
an album might drop the photos and videos the
albums contains into the trash? Fortunately, it does
not. In its internal structure, Photos separates