I’ve got my edited photo right alongside the original in my album. Step 05: Check the outcomeĪnd here we are. I’ve messed around with the Fade filter and some other settings, but that doesn’t matter too much right now – this is just an example to show what happens. It doesn’t much matter which I work on since they’re both the same, but I’ll choose the second. Step 03: Check your duplicateīack in album view we can now see I’ve got two copies of the same photo. The one we want is the Duplicate button on the far left. This opens a screen where your chosen photo is selected and you have a row of apps to share to and another row underneath consisting of actions you can carry out. Then you need to tap the share/action button on the top toolbar… Step 02: Duplicate it Instead, you need to tap the photo you want to duplicate to open it. What you really want to be able to do is duplicate the original so that you can work on a copy – but then there’s another problem? Where’s the ‘Duplicate’ command? Step 01: Open the photoĭon’t waste any time looking for a Duplicate command in the main Photos browser window because there isn’t one. And if you decide you want the original back after all, you have to lose the edited version. Well, it doesn’t save it over the other one, exactly, because it keeps the original in case you want to revert to it one day.īut it doesn’t let you see the original and the edited version at the same time. When you edit a photo, the application saves the new version over the old one.

It’s also a pretty good image-editing hub for all your photo editing, at least on mobile devices like iPads and iPhones – except for one annoyance.

It’s a great way to keep all your photos to handy on all your devices, and it practically looks after itself – you add a photo on one device, and very soon it’s on all of them. Apple Photos is central to both the Mac OS and iOS devices.

Mac photos duplicates