New Photos app available in pre-release of OS X 10.10.3


Back in June at WWDC Apple announced its new Photos app as the company retires iPhoto and Aperture on OS X. Apple said Photos would ship in 2015, and the company is getting closer to making that happen. Thursday the company put up a pre-released version of OS X 10.10.3 that includes the Photos.

Linked here the Verge has a nice rundown of Photos.

If you've been using the iCloud Photo Library beta for iOS 8, you'll be pretty familiar with how Photos for OS X works. Rather than the old "My Photo Stream" feature, which pushed 1,000 photos (or 30 days worth of photos) across your Mac and iOS devices, everything you shoot on your iPhone will automatically get uploaded to your iCloud Drive. When you open up Photos on your Mac, you'll see everything you shot in a view that's nearly identical to what you see in iOS.