How to Make Sense of Photos in iOS 8

iOS 8

iOS 8

While there are many new features that have been added to both the camera and the photos app on iOS 8 (flagging favorite photos, additional filters, straightening rather than rotating photos, quick access to manual exposure, a timer function and a couple new shooting modes, to name a few), some features have been removed. One big loss: iPhoto is no longer supported on iOS 8. There were quite a few features that iPhoto for iOS had that the new Photos app is lacking. Apple has had an on-again off-again relationship with online photo journals and web sites. In November of 2010 .Mac HomePages gave way to MobileMe Web Galleries. Then in June of 2012, MobileMe Web Galleries ceased to exist as iCloud came online. Now the most recent successor, iPhoto Web journals, is being shut down, or at least that is how it appears. With each transition, users of the previous online journaling feature really had little to no options available when it came to migration to a new or replacement feature.

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