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Photos User Guide
- Welcome
- Get started
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- Browse your photos
- View individual photos
- Add titles, captions, and more
- Interact with text in a photo using Live Text
- Use Visual Look Up to learn about a photo
- Isolate and copy a photo’s subject
- View photos others have shared with you
- Delete photos or recover deleted ones
- Remove duplicates
- Hide photos from view
- View photo bursts
- Play video clips
- View Live Photos
- Change Photos settings
- Keyboard shortcuts and gestures
- Copyright
Optimize storage in Photos on Mac
If you use iCloud Photos, you can turn on Optimize Mac Storage to conserve storage space on your Mac. This option stores smaller versions of your photos on your Mac when storage space is limited, and keeps the original, full-size photos in iCloud.
Note: If you haven’t turned on iCloud Photos, see Use iCloud Photos to store photos in iCloud.
In the Photos app on your Mac, choose Photos > Settings, then click iCloud.
Select the iCloud Photos checkbox, then select Optimize Mac Storage.
To restore the originals to your Mac, just select “Download Originals to this Mac.”
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