Apple is Replacing Aperture and iPhoto With the New Photos App

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Posted June 27, 2014 at 5:50pm by iClarified

Apple has announced that it's stopping development of Aperture and iPhoto and will replace both programs with the new Photos for OS X application, reports The Loop.

Apple introduced a new Photos app during its Worldwide Developers Conference that will become the new platform for the company. As part of the transition, Apple told me today that they will no longer be developing its professional photography application, Aperture.

“With the introduction of the new Photos app and iCloud Photo Library, enabling you to safely store all of your photos in iCloud and access them from anywhere, there will be no new development of Aperture,” said Apple. “When Photos for OS X ships next year, users will be able to migrate their existing Aperture libraries to Photos for OS.”

Apple also made it clear that development of its other professional applications will continue as normal.

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Apple is Replacing Aperture and iPhoto With the New Photos App

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AppleGuy299 - June 30, 2014 at 8:20pm

They said "When photos for OS X ships next year...", does that mean it will be a separated app from the rest of OS X? (And maybe isn't free)? Or did they just mistype that?

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gamerscul9870 - June 30, 2014 at 8:22pm

Separated app. The two (aperture and iPhoto) combined together to work like the one in iOS 8.

AppleGuy299 - June 29, 2014 at 7:11pm

And what about iPhoto for iOS?

gamerscul9870 - June 29, 2014 at 7:51pm

iOS 8 of course. There's beta.

AppleGuy299 - June 30, 2014 at 4:09am

So you think the Photos app in iOS 8 will replace iPhoto?

gamerscul9870 - June 30, 2014 at 4:48am

Title says it all.

Yucon - June 29, 2014 at 9:19am

Well, for who doesn't use Aperture it's just like a better iPhoto, so that'll be cool.

lepaka - June 28, 2014 at 11:51am

in the first release, it will be a win to iPhoto and a loose for Aperture, as it did happen with the iWork Apps when went to the Cloud they have loose functionalities :( hope only that in couple of years can do the jump out of the space and can give us only reasons to keep happy

matrixmaniac - June 27, 2014 at 8:54pm

IF they force me to store my pictures in the iCloud they are dead for me! Otherwise it may be ok as long as there is a decent migration path and at least as good functionality as in aperture.

gamerscul9870 - June 27, 2014 at 8:55pm

You have an option for that, but it goes to icloud if you want it to but as usual it stays in your shared devices and stays on it, whatever is shared with it thought stores there.

kapnkirk24 - June 27, 2014 at 8:33pm

Outstanding!!!

gamerscul9870 - June 27, 2014 at 7:11pm

One word: genius. Combining the two together.