

Like its predecessors, Photos initially included a number of options for professional printing of photos, which could then optionally be turned into books or calendars and mailed to an address. While iCloud integration is still optional, it is much more central to Photos as compared to iPhoto. Storage starts at a complimentary 5 GB and can be bought in a number of tiers up to 2 TB. ICloud Photo Library is heavily integrated into the program, keeping photos and videos in sync with various Apple devices designated by the user (such as Macs, iPhones, and iPads), including edits and album structures. 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.
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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.
