
There continues to be an option to hide the Hidden album, however. There is no option not to lock these two albums as it is a system-level lock that cannot be overwritten. Someone who has access to your unlocked phone will not be able to open these albums without further authentication.

This protects the photos that you've deleted or those that you've marked as hidden. In the iOS 16 Photos app, both the "Hidden" and "Recently Deleted" albums under Utilities are locked with Face ID or Touch ID and cannot be opened without biometric authentication or a passcode. Photos Locked Hidden and Recently Deleted Albums Many of these features will also be available in iPadOS 16 and macOS Ventura when they launch to the public in October. This guide aggregates everything that's new in iOS 16 in both the Camera and Photos apps. Photos has quite a few new features including an option to get rid of duplicates and some locked folders for sensitive photos, plus the Camera app can translate text and there are functionality improvements for iPhone 13 users.

In the next section, I explain how to use the Export Unmodified Original command instead in Apple Photos if you want to create a copy of your pure original raw, or jpeg capture, that you can then import into Lightroom Classic.įinally, I will teach you how to bring over a copy of all your original captures, plus full resolution copies of all of the images that you have ever worked on using Apple’s image management App, in the last part of this tutorial. In section one, fortunately, all that I have to do is to export a full-resolution tif file from the Apple Photos App and then import these new tif files into my Lightroom Catalog. Things start out simple enough in the first section of this tutorial when my goal is just to bring over a copy of my favorite images from Apple Photos to Lightroom Classic. In each section, I add in additional tricks and tips for each increasingly complex import scenario.

There are so many different ways to approach this process that I have divided this tutorial up into four distinct sections.
