Photos Workbench- Release Notes

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HoudahGeo is a powerful photo geocoding and geotagging solution for Mac, allowing you to add precise location information to your photos and videos.

Geotagging for archival purposes – Embeds location data in EXIF, XMP, and IPTC metadata.
Geocoding for publishing and presentation – Enhances your images with location details for easy reference and storytelling.

Unlike Apple Photos, HoudahGeo embeds the location information within your image and video files. This ensures the location stays embedded in the photo, even when copied, moved, or shared. If you switch to a different photo cataloging tool, it can still read the location information from the geotags.

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Photos Workbench 1.6.1

Performance
- Filtering by star rating is significantly faster. Rated-photo searches are now more responsive on large libraries.
- The grid thumbnail view zooms more smoothly and reliably. Thumbnails no longer go blank when zooming on photos stored in iCloud.
- The batch rename window loads significantly faster by eliminating a slow class-scanning pass at startup.
- The sidebar renders more efficiently under rapid updates.
- The inspector panel now loads complete original metadata for selected photos.
Compare Mode
- Actions now operate on the photos selected in the viewer rather than the underlying collection. Delete, Remove from Album, Set Favorite, keyword hotkeys, and other actions now work reliably in Compare mode.
Context Menus
- Added context menus to the compare view and single photo view for quick access to common actions.
Notifications
- Photos stored in iCloud that cannot be loaded due to no internet connection now show a warning notification instead of a blank image.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a crash when the photo library sent change notifications during internal updates.
- Fixed a crash during grid view updates.
- Fixed undo for Move Photos where Cmd-Z could silently do nothing.
- Fixed undo for Undelete restoring photos instead of deleting them again.
- Fixed keyword hotkeys sometimes doing nothing immediately after applying a keyword.
- Fixed several incorrectly enabled or disabled menu items (Rename, Load Track Log, Clear Location).
- Fixed an issue where opening the app could result in no photo being selected.
- Improved selection preservation when switching views or when the photo library updates in the background.

Photos Workbench 1.4

New navigation options: Added menu items to select the next or previous photo.
Streamlined quick editing: While editing a photo’s title or keywords, you can now use the new navigation commands (or keyboard shortcuts) to move to the next or previous photo. The keyboard focus stays in the text field, so you can continue editing without interruption.
Map view enhancements: New menu items let you zoom in and out of the map.
Persistent zoom: The app now remembers your zoom level in the grid view between sessions.
Faster grid view: Improved performance through smarter caching of photo thumbnails.
Sharper thumbnails: Fixed an issue where grid thumbnails appeared at too low a resolution.
Improved image display: Fixed a bug where the full-size photo was briefly replaced with a thumbnail in single image view.

Photos Workbench 1.3.3

Adds more options for formatting time batch title changes
Fixes a bug where grid view could fail to update
Note: On macOS 15.2, Photos Workbench works only with the System Photos library. It can no longer open other libraries.
Please hold off updating to macOS 15.2 if you need to work with multiple libraries.

Photos Workbench 1.3

Updated for compatibility with macOS 15 Sequoia
Fixes a bug where Photos Workbench failed to restore selection when switching between albums
Fixes photos sort order after batch renaming items in an album sorted by modification date
Fixes issues with reloading photo information upon changes made using Workbench or Apple Photos

Photos Workbench 1.2

Updated for macOS 14 Sonoma
Photos Workbench now asks for a name when creating a new album
You can now use the space key to jump from grid or list view to a single image and back
Photos Workbench now keeps the selection in view when switching between grid, list, and compare mode
Bug fixes and refinements. Thank you, Steve B.

Photos Workbench 1.1

Photos Workbench now opens the most recently used Apple Photos library. Use the Photos application to switch between libraries
Library now shows photos in the same order as All Photos in the Photos application
Photos Workbench remembers the selected album and selected photos when quitting and relaunching the application
When switching between albums, the selection and scroll position are preserved

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Photos Workbench 1.6.1

Photos Workbench 1.5

Photos Workbench 1.4.1

Photos Workbench 1.4

Photos Workbench 1.3.4

Photos Workbench 1.3.3

Photos Workbench 1.3.2

Photos Workbench 1.3.1

Photos Workbench 1.3

Photos Workbench 1.2.6

Photos Workbench 1.2.5

Photos Workbench 1.2.4

Photos Workbench 1.2.3

Photos Workbench 1.2.2

Photos Workbench 1.2.1

Photos Workbench 1.2

Photos Workbench 1.1

Photos Workbench 1.0.2

Photos Workbench 1.0.1

Photos Workbench 1.0

Photos Workbench 1.0b28

Photos Workbench 1.0b26

Photos Workbench 1.0b25

Photos Workbench 1.0b24

Photos Workbench 1.0b20

Photos Workbench 1.0b19

Photos Workbench 1.0b18