Four things Apple could do to improve iPhoto right now
The last major version of iPhoto—iPhoto ’11—came out in October 2010. Since then, I find myself spending less time working with family photos and more time muttering family-unfriendly words.
But iPhoto isn’t a lost cause. Looking at iPhoto for iOS, I suspect Apple is working on a major overhaul of the Mac application, which would explain the development lag. (To be fair, the incremental improvements over the last two and a half years have brought iCloud Photo Stream compatibility and a unified database format shared by iPhoto and Aperture—both solid improvements.)
Until the next major version appears, here are four ways Apple could improve iPhoto ’11 in the short term to make it usable. (I have no inside information about Apple’s plans or current development focus, because, well, it’s Apple.)
Let me turn off Faces
iPhoto’s Faces feature is fun—but not for your Mac’s CPU.
Nothing spins up the fans on my MacBook Pro like iPhoto, and that’s because it appears to be searching for people to identify for the Faces feature in the background. In the sidebar, the spinning progress indicator frequently appears to the right of the Faces item.
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