- Photos load faster, scrolling is smoother, and opening a photo is immediate and reliable—even after scrolling. Detail loading is also more responsive and memory-efficient. - People management is clearer and more flexible, with consistent previews, easier selection of missing faces, and the choice to update only the current photo or merge an entire person group. - Improved object recognition finds more matching photos and can automatically create a small number of high-confidence tags. Tag matching now handles capitalization, accents, spaces, and hyphens more reliably. - Photo library changes, permission updates, and iCloud photos are detected and retried more reliably. Videos now play only when they are actually visible. - Metadata editing better preserves the original image format, GPS entries are validated more clearly, and multi-item sharing now reports partial failures instead of silently skipping media. - Additional improvements make saved filters, localized counts, indexing, data storage, and privacy protection more reliable.