Edit with third-party apps and extensions in Photos

Acquire how to edit photos and videos with third-political party extensions in Photos for iOS and macOS. And find out how Photos and third-party apps piece of work together on your Mac.

  • iPhone or iPad

  • Mac

Third-party apps and extensions aggrandize your editing options in Photos for iOS and macOS. Yous can use edits from multiple apps and extensions to i photo, or use any combination of apps and extensions plus the editing tools built into Photos.

Utilize third-party extensions on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

Larn how to find apps with Photos extensions for your iOS device, utilize them to edit photos, and set favorite extensions.

Install iOS apps that offer extensions

Utilize the App Store on your device to find and install apps that allow full editing from Photos or include extensions for Photos. Apps that include Photos extensions often say so in their descriptions; search for terms like "Photos extension" to explore more apps.

You tin can also choose from the apps listed in Edit Images Faster With Photo Extensions on the App Store.

Edit photos with extensions on your iOS device

Set favorite extensions and alter the social club on your iOS device

If you lot accept multiple apps that include Photos extensions, you tin set favorites and change the order in which they appear on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.

  1. Open the Photos app, then tap a photograph.
  2. Tap Edit, and then tap the More button .
  3. In the carte that appears, swipe to the left until y'all see the More push, and and so tap it.
    iPhone showing the More button to access third-party extensions
  4. In the listing of apps with Photos extensions that appears,  tap Edit, then tap the Insert push button  to add together it to your favorites. To reorder your favorite extensions, tap and hold the Reorder push button , so drag up or down to change the order. When you're finished, tap Done.
    iPhone showing third-party extensions Favorites and Suggestions

Utilize third-party extensions on your Mac

Learn how to observe apps with Photos extensions for your Mac, use them to edit photos, and turn on or off the extensions.

Install Mac apps that allow editing or offer extensions

Photos for macOS makes finding third-party apps like shooting fish in a barrel:

  1. Double-click a photograph in your library to open it in single view, so click Edit.
  2. Click the More button, then choose App Store.

The Mac App Shop opens to a selection of third-party photo editing apps that are compatible with Photos.

You can also choose from the apps listed in Extensions for Fast Photograph Edits on the App Store.

Edit photos with extensions on your Mac

Plow on or off extensions on your Mac

If you want to change which extensions announced in Photos, you can turn the extensions on or off:

  1. Choose Apple bill of fare  > Arrangement Preferences, then click Extensions.
  2. Click Photos Editing in the left sidebar. Your apps that include Photos extensions announced.
    System Preferences Photo Editing Extensions
  3. Plough on the extensions that you want to utilise in Photos. You tin as well drag them up or downwardly to suit the society that they appear in Photos. If yous don't want an extension to appear in Photos, brand sure the app'due south checkbox isn't selected.

Edit photos within 3rd-party apps on your Mac

With Photos for macOS High Sierra and later, y'all tin can transport a photograph to most 3rd-political party photo apps for editing, then salve the changes right back into your library.

  1. Control-click a photo and cull Edit With from the contextual carte du jour. And then choose from the list of third-party editing apps on your Mac. Yous can besides click a photo and and then cull Image > Edit With in the menu bar.
  2. The photo opens in the third-party app that yous chose. Make your edits, and and then save.
    If the app saves photos in a non-standard format, look for an option to save equally JPEG or some other format that Photos supports.

Your edited photograph appears automatically in Photos.

Larn more

  • When yous edit a photo with 3rd-political party extensions or the built-in tools that Photos offers, you tin can always commencement over with the original photograph. Open the photo in edit manner, and then click Revert to Original on your Mac or tap Revert if y'all're using an iOS device.
  • If you use iCloud Photos, think that it keeps your photos organized and upwardly to engagement everywhere that you use the aforementioned Apple tree ID. So any edits that you brand on one device appear on your other devices too.

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