welcome back everyone my name is joel feld and today i wanted to discuss some of the new features
in apple photos in the latest operating system of monterey monterey monterey i don't know here we go
one of the biggest things that i found scrolling through apple's website is the ability to
import older photo libraries into an existing photo libraries you have to ask yourself why was
this never a feature before but it really is nice so now you can take multiple apple photo libraries
or iphoto libraries according to apple and merge them without having to use third-party software or
weird workarounds all of that i will say that you need to be on the latest operating system and if
you're not i do have another video that i'll link down below that shows you how to merge multiple
apple photo libraries together but going forward if you are able to upgrade to the latest operating
system you can actually import that just from the file menu and we'll walk through that step
now first let's actually go out to apple's website and we're going to go to mac because i want to
show you the system requirements for monterey i like to click on monterey in the top right
and then here is where we're able to scroll down and see all of the different features for
the new operating system now if i click on all new features i can then click on
learn how to upgrade and this is going to show me the compatibility models
for your computer so before you get excited that you can merge all of your apple photo libraries
with what you have right now you may find out like i did with my older laptop that it cannot
run the latest operating system but luckily with this computer i can upgrade therefore i can do
it now if we go back to all new features some of the features that they've quietly updated
are the memories they added more information in the info pane that's linked with the visual
lookup which is nice they supposedly say that it's faster icloud photos library initial sync
we will cross that bridge when we get there and see if that actually is a thing but this when
i saw this i was pretty excited to be able to import photos from another photo libraries you
can now import original photos including edits from a second photos library or third or fourth
or fifth so on and so forth they've changed some other things that i have yet to really
go in depth but just playing with it it doesn't seem all that new it's pretty much the same but i
specifically wanted to make this video in regards to importing other libraries because i know a lot
of people end up with different older computers or photo libraries that they want to merge together
now i have photos closed and if you ever want to know what photo libraries you have on your
computer if i hold down option on the keyboard and click on photos it's going to pop up a chooser to
choose which library i want to open with but it also gives me options to create a new library
now i have three different libraries here one of them is my system photo library and it says that
here and that's the one that syncs with icloud you can only have one library that syncs with icloud
so this is my main master my go-to one that syncs with my phone my ipad my other computers
but these other two here are older libraries that i have that may have photos that exist in
the current one i have no idea so what we're going to do is i'm going to open up my main
photos library and this is all of my pictures and i'm going to go up to the file menu choose import
and i'm going to navigate to the pictures folder where those libraries are at
and here is that old library i'm going to say now review for import so if i click on this
it now shows up on the left hand side says old photo library
and here it actually detected that out of all the photographs there's already 11 of them imported in
this library so it recognized the duplicates and then new photos it recognizes a hundred and four
now with that these pictures may be in there i'm still skeptical that apple photos is really good
at detecting duplicates and i'll show you why in a second but overall these pictures it tells me are
not in here so what i'm going to do is just click on import all new photos in the top right it's
going to skip those 10 that were already there and then it's going to import and copy all of the new
ones into that library resulting in merging two different libraries together when it's done i
can delete that other one and mission accomplished so now all of those photographs are imported if i
scroll down i can see them all here now if i go up to file let's repeat the process let's see if it
detects the duplicates i'm going to do import we're going to import that old library again
review for import and it found new photos 20 photos okay let's import those again maybe i
missed that for some odd reason but it said 104 here
so let's scroll down it still thinks that those 20 pictures are not imported if i
select this library again review for import those 20 pictures here let's just let's just for fun
import that one even though it's right here which it imported just for fun let's go to file import
go to old photo library review for import and again it still shows the 20. so
i will say that possibly my first video that i'll link below again that may be your best
choice because apple even though you've allowed me to import them it's most likely going to have
duplicates i have another photo library here that's jfeldphoto let's review that for imports
so it actually found them but it still allows you to import ones that you've already imported and
i've also noticed that if i go and just manually drag this in here it does recognize the duplicate
that's nice so i'm going to choose don't import let's try another one here let's do this one all
right so dragging it in now let's just say import let's see what happens if i drag it in again
it does say import go back to the old library and it still sees those 20 pictures so i don't
know whether or not to trust apple photos it could be a bug in the system because it's so new
let me know what your experiences are down in the comments do you experience the same thing that i
do because what's odd is the other library recognizes the duplicates this one doesn't
if i drag a photograph from the desktop let's take this one for example
if we drag this in it will import that photograph let's just drag it in again and it does detect the
the duplicate there so perfect don't import so i guess in the grand scheme of things
thank you apple for allowing us to import the existing photo libraries but based off of this
demonstration it doesn't seem to prove that it may be 100 reliable in the case that it's
not i will link another video for finding duplicates just in case which is helpful
because i know there's some nice third-party tools so if you do have duplicates after you do
merge some of these libraries you can go ahead and watch that video and let me know what you think
but overall it is nice that it is new feature hopefully it will get better maybe i just have
a corrupt library that i don't know and it will be perfect in the next update who knows so again
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