Find your
favourites.
A few lovely moments. A lot of similar photos. Photo Shortlist helps you compare them, choose what to keep, and pick up where you left off.
From similar photos to a shortlist.
Choose your photos
Find similar photographs in Apple Photos. Use your whole library, or focus on one album and a date range.
See them side by side
Compare two photos at a time. Look closer when you need to, undo a choice, or keep a tie.
Make it your shortlist
Start with suggested favourites, then keep as many as you like. Your choices stay saved for next time.
Saving choices
doesn’t delete photos.
Removal is a separate decision. Review choices shows which photos you’re keeping and which are eligible for removal. Only your explicit confirmation moves the displayed batch to Recently Deleted in Apple Photos.
If you use iCloud Photos, that removal also affects devices syncing the same library.
Read about keeping and removalMade for the photos
you have today.
Photo Shortlist compares the current version shown in Photos, including your edits. Supported Live Photos stay together as a single photo.
Photo analysis happens on your Mac. iCloud downloads use Apple’s Photos services, with Automatic and Manual options for viewing.
How your information is handled