PHOTOS FRONT AND CENTER
Photos was also given a new look in iOS 13,
with Apple putting the best photos front and
center to relive memories at a glance. Making
the app more competitive with apps such as
Google Photos, which offers unlimited free
photo storage for life, Apple Photos can now be
organized by day, month, and year, filtering out
clutter such as screenshots and duplicate images
to ensure only the most significant moments are
seen, including Live Photos which automatically
play as you scroll, bringing your photo library
to life. What’s more, Apple now highlights
locations, performers, holidays, and more under
an All view, and you can see photos of a person
on their birthday if you’ve assigned a date to
them in the People album.
Editing has also been overhauled on iOS 13, and
now the tools are front and center alongside a
slider wheel that’s easier to use than ever. One
particularly useful new feature offers a before
and after of what photos will look like when
applying a filter, and you can now adjust the
intensity of the pre-set filters including Vivid
or Noir, creating a more subtle look.
Video editing has also been given some love,
and now users can adjust elements such as
their exposure, contrast, saturation, brightness,
and more - a greater experience than the video
cropping and trimming tools which were
available on previous iterations of iOS. You can
also apply filters over videos, and because edits
are nondestructive, you can remove them and
revert back to the original video whenever you’d
like, which is great if you make a mistake or want
to look back on original footage before you
applied manipulations.