iOS 9 now explicitly encourages selfies
If you needed further proof that 2015 is the Year of the Selfie, look no further than the latest beta of iOS 9, which brings a dedicated selfie folder to your iPhone.
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By Chris Mills, Gawker Media
If you needed further proof that 2015 is the Year of the Selfie, look no further than the latest beta of iOS 9, which among other things, has brought a dedicated selfie folder to your iPhone.
The folder is tucked away in the regular Photos app, where it amalgamates any pictures taken with the front-facing camera into the new Selfies folder. This is just the latest high-profile validation for the selfie genre, following along from being the 2013 Word of the Year, sparking an official Russian government how-to guide, and ruining Nelson Mandela's funeral.
The selfies folder is part of a bevy of new features in the third beta of iOS 9. Along with the Selfies folder, there's also an (infinitely more useful) Screenshots folder, the Apple News app, an option for high-quality streaming in Apple Music, and best of all, Siri doesn't make a beeping noise when you're in silent mode.
If you needed further proof that 2015 is the Year of the Selfie, look no further than the latest beta of iOS 9, which among other things, has brought a dedicated selfie folder to your iPhone.
The folder is tucked away in the regular Photos app, where it amalgamates any pictures taken with the front-facing camera into the new Selfies folder. This is just the latest high-profile validation for the selfie genre, following along from being the 2013 Word of the Year, sparking an official Russian government how-to guide, and ruining Nelson Mandela's funeral.
The selfies folder is part of a bevy of new features in the third beta of iOS 9. Along with the Selfies folder, there's also an (infinitely more useful) Screenshots folder, the Apple News app, an option for high-quality streaming in Apple Music, and best of all, Siri doesn't make a beeping noise when you're in silent mode.
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If you're like most people, those hundreds of photos you took on vacation are still on your camera or phone. You shared a handful on Facebook or Instagram, and tell yourself that you'll sift through the others one day.
Procrastinate no more. Apple's new Photos app for Mac computers, available Wednesday as a free software update, makes it easy to organize and edit your pictures. The app, which replaces iPhoto, bundles professional-level tools such as granular color correction into one free consumer package.
Like other free apps such as Google's Picasa, Photos is good for auto-enhancing, cropping and other basic touches such as lightening underexposed shots. But it goes further by also including some of the advanced fine-tuning you'd find in a tool like Adobe Lightroom, which costs $149.
If you're like most people, those hundreds of photos you took on vacation are still on your camera or phone. You shared a handful on Facebook or Instagram, and tell yourself that you'll sift through the others one day.
Procrastinate no more. Apple's new Photos app for Mac computers, available Wednesday as a free software update, makes it easy to organize and edit your pictures. The app, which replaces iPhoto, bundles professional-level tools such as granular color correction into one free consumer package.
Like other free apps such as Google's Picasa, Photos is good for auto-enhancing, cropping and other basic touches such as lightening underexposed shots. But it goes further by also including some of the advanced fine-tuning you'd find in a tool like Adobe Lightroom, which costs $149.
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