iPhoto
iPhoto was Apple's photo management and editing application for macOS, serving amateur and casual photographers for over a decade. It provided organization tools including Events, Faces and Places, basic editing capabilities such as cropping, color correction and filtering, and easy sharing to social media and web albums. The app was bundled with many Macs and became the standard photo library tool for many users. Apple discontinued iPhoto in 2015, replacing it with the Photos application that ships with modern macOS.
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1 suggestioniPhoto has been discontinued and officially replaced by the Photos app since macOS 10.10 (Yosemite, released in 2014). The Intel build of iPhoto is not compatible with recent macOS releases — Apple removed 32-bit app support in Catalina (macOS 10.15, 2019) and iPhoto was never updated to a 64-bit native or Universal Binary. There is no native Apple Silicon version and there never will be, as the app is no longer maintained. iPhoto will not launch on macOS 28 (September 2028) when Apple removes Rosetta 2 entirely. If you still have iPhoto libraries on your Mac, the recommended migration path is to import them into the modern Photos app, which ships natively on all current Macs. Open Photos on your Mac, press and hold Option, click File → Import Library, and select your iPhoto Library folder — Photos will migrate your photos, metadata and some organizational information. Once the import completes, you can confidently delete the old iPhoto application. If you need more advanced photo management or editing tools than Photos provides, consider alternatives like Capture One, Adobe Lightroom, or Affinity Photo, all of which run natively on Apple Silicon.
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