Photos includes robust editing functions that are utilized with simple controls, such as a one-click auto-enhance button. Starting in version 5.0 (released in 2019 with macOS 10.15 Catalina), photos can instead be browsed by year, month, or day.

Through version 4.0 (released with macOS 10.14 Mojave) the Photos app organized photos by 'moment', as determined using combination of the time and location metadata attached to the photo. Photos is intended to be less complex than its professional predecessor, Aperture. On September 13, 2016, the app was later included in tvOS 10. Photos was included with OS X Yosemite 10.10.3, released as a free update to users on April 8, 2015. In June 2014, Apple announced its plan to discontinue the applications iPhoto and Aperture, to be replaced by a new application, Photos, at some point in 2015. It was released for tvOS 10 on September 13, 2016. It was released as a bundled app in iOS 8 on September 17, 2014-replacing the Camera Roll-and released as a bundled app to OS X Yosemite users in the 10.10.3 update on April 8, 2015. Photos is a photo management and editing application developed by Apple.

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