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Apple focuses on security as Photos app undergoes major overhaul

The app manages more than three trillion images and videos a year

Apple is increasing security measures on its key Photos application, which will undergo its most significant redesign in the upcoming iOS 18 operating system, three executives have told The National. So rather than hunt and peck throughout, we've created a simple streamlined single view photos experience based on deep intelligence,” Billy Sorrentino, senior director at Apple’s human interface design unit, told The National. Photos will also apply a simplified, single-view grid, with months and years listed below to locate files faster, and a new Collections feature that organises media by theme or topic.

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