Introduction

The iPhone is the most popular camera in the world. Not the most popular mobile phone, but the most popular camera. It’s taken the place of many point-and-shoot cameras for one reason: you can’t argue with convenience. It’s easy to capture a spontaneous moment using the camera phone in your pocket. Even when I’m out shooting with other cameras, I also snap photos using my iPhone.

But what happens then? Images can’t stay on the iPhone forever. The answer is the twin anchors of Apple’s photography ecosystem, Photos for OS X and Photos for iOS, tied together with iCloud Photo Library. Images captured on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch automatically sync to iCloud and are copied to all your devices. That also means you have access to ...

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