- Create slideshows from scratch: a new + button on the Saved Slideshows screen starts an empty slideshow, and empty slideshows now show an Add Media button so you can fill them right away. - Tap any photo or video inside a saved slideshow to view it full screen, with the same browsing, sharing, and info options as albums. - Added a Calendar Events screen widget for slideshows, so upcoming events can appear over your photos with configurable calendars, event count, look-ahead range, details, position, and appearance. - Opening a photo or video from an album or a saved slideshow now zooms it up from its thumbnail into full screen, and you can swipe down to flick it back into place — the same fluid transition as the Photos app. - Slideshow video export now renders the mat board exactly like playback: mat color, paper and linen textures, and all bevel styles frame every photo, video, and Live Photo in the exported video. - Mat board bevels now always stay white and texture-free, even when the mat board uses a custom color or texture (thanks again Dean for the feedback!). - Fixed a Mac crash when opening Sort from the More menu in collection and album screens (thanks Claus for the report!). - Smart pair collages now export: two portrait photos share the frame side by side in the exported video just like during playback, including the same playlist pairing and order. - Face-aware fill now works in exported videos: the crop shifts toward detected faces exactly like playback (including inside pair collages), and the stretched fill mode now distorts the full image instead of a pre-cropped one. - Exported transitions now match playback much more closely: a real page curl and a 3D perspective flip replace the old crossfade and flat squash, vertical slide directions and rotation direction are corrected, and all transitions use the same easing curves as the player. - The Ken Burns effect is now included in slideshow videos exported from iPhone, which previously fell back to fades. Thank you for reading this release notes! Please email me at info@digitalphotoframeapp.com any suggestions to make the App better for you. - Manuel

- New Origami transition folds each photo away in halves like closing a paper map, with hinged panels and soft crease shading, inspired by the classic Photos Origami theme. - Saved slideshow content now shows a position number on each photo so it's clear in which order they'll play, updating live as you drag to rearrange. - Unified typography across the app: album titles on source screens now match the Home screen, and the Add Source screen uses the same font styles as the rest of the app. - Polished the Settings screen: the feedback banner now lines up with the width of the other sections, and the usage statistics in the footer use a monospaced font. - Fixed a family of crashes during slideshow playback when skipping slides while photo downloads were still queued — the download queue's internal state could get corrupted and crash later in unrelated places, including while videos were being cleaned up (thanks Manuel for the report!). - Improved slideshow image preloading across Photo Library, Files, Google Photos, and other URL sources so pair and collage layouts wait for display-ready images instead of showing black gaps, while keeping image decoding off the main thread. - Slideshow transitions now start instantly: upcoming photos are fully loaded and decoded ahead of time and kept ready in memory for every source — Photo Library, Files, Google Photos, Flickr, Unsplash, and offline slideshows — so images no longer pop in a moment after the transition, and videos show their poster frame immediately while the video loads. Thank you for reading this release notes! Please email me at info@digitalphotoframeapp.com any suggestions to make the App better for you. - Manuel

- Mat Board frames now include Off, Subtle, Classic, and Deep bevel controls plus Off, Paper, and Linen texture options for a more realistic framed-photo look (thanks Dean for the suggestion!). - Fixed Apple TV music playback not resuming after unmuted Live Photos or videos play during a slideshow (thanks Richard for the heads up!). - Fixed slideshows getting stuck on a loading icon and skipping to the next slide after running for a long time — the image download queue could be held up by iCloud-stored photos that never finished loading on older devices, and now recovers automatically with a timeout (thanks Anthony for the detailed logs!). - Fixed the video duration label appearance when browsing an album on iOS 26. - Fixed Apple TV Photo Library folders showing blank cover tiles until opening the folder. - Fixed NAS/SMB Files folders not always including photos and videos from subfolders (thanks Mike for the heads up!). - Fixed video export failing partway through on large slideshows — the app now checks for free storage before exporting and shows a clear message if there isn't enough space (thanks Sara for the report!). - Fixed the feedback email getting stuck on devices without a configured Mail account — the app now falls back to other mail apps and offers a Copy Email Address option (thanks Darrell for the report!). As always, thanks for using the app and helping me improve it. - Manuel

- Appearance settings now show a live preview of background color and mat board changes. - Quieter crash reports for known recoverable issues, including weather lookups when the device is offline. - Fixed video slides resuming from a spacebar pause with audio playing but the video frame frozen (thanks Andrew for the report!). - Fixed saved slideshows sometimes failing to start from the Home screen on older iPads after launch, while still working from See All (thanks Darrell for the detailed report!). - Fixed iPad and Mac crashes on iOS/macOS 26 caused by popovers opening without a valid anchor. - Updated the FAQ and moved it into Getting Started for easier help access (thanks Graham for the suggestion!). - Internal code cleanup. As always, thanks for using the app and helping me improve it. Manuel

- Added a Huge text size for the slideshow Date and Time widget on iPad, Apple TV, and Mac (thanks Manuel for the suggestion!). - Offer code redemption now uses the modern StoreKit sheet on newer systems and handles unavailable or cancelled redemption more cleanly. - Fixed a crash on iPad running iOS 26 when opening the Sort or More menu inside an album, and hardened other share and popover surfaces so they always anchor correctly. - Recover automatically when the saved-slideshow database can't be read on launch, instead of leaving the app stuck without a database. Do love the App? Rate it! Your feedback keeps me coding to make the App better every day! Any questions? Contact me via info@digitalphotoframeapp.com. I'd love to hear from you.

- Photo location captions now lead with the place name (e.g. "Tour Eiffel, Paris, France") when available, with neighborhood, city, and country filled in to taste (thanks Richard for the suggestion!). - Added Full / Medium / Short location format options in the location caption settings so captions fit smaller screens — defaults to Medium. - Polished Apple TV navigation: restored the more menu, suggest-a-collection, and search, with clearer focus on settings rows and Add Media. - Fixed a launch crash on iOS 13 caused by the color picker delegate being available too early. - Fixed large HEIC photos from the Files source failing to load on older iPads (thanks Anthony for the heads up!). - Fixed the More menu for Curated Collections and Google Photos on older iOS versions. Do love the App? Rate it! Your feedback keeps me coding to make the App better every day! Any questions? Contact me via info@digitalphotoframeapp.com. I'd love to hear from you.

- Exported slideshows now play real video clips and Live Photos to match the slideshow settings, including their original audio (ducked under the music track) when playback and mute settings allow it. - Redesigned the Add Source screen into three grouped sections — Connect an Account, Your Cloud Drives, and Discover — with a distinct Files card that spells out that adding Files also brings in iCloud Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive and other cloud storage already set up in the Files app. - Added a "Stay in the loop" newsletter signup in Settings → Discover, plus a one-time prompt after your first saved slideshow, so you can opt in to a short note when there's something new worth telling you about. - Polished the app for iOS 26 with shiny new Liquid Glass touches, so the controls feel right at home in Apple's glossy new world. - Added Object Name IPTC as a Title Configuration source, so photos using that field can drive the on-screen title. #### Improved - Slideshow exports now explain when music can't be added (DRM-protected Apple Music tracks, or curated songs still downloading) instead of producing a silent video. - Fixed on-screen weather, date, and image information widgets not appearing during a slideshow when their toggle was on, after restoring slideshow defaults and re-enabling them. - Fixed on-screen widget boxes still showing a border at 0% background opacity (thanks Erik for the heads up!). - Fixed on-screen photo caption showing the filename instead of the IPTC caption for Files-source images (thanks Andrew!). Do love the App? Rate it! Your feedback keeps me coding to make the App better every day! Any questions? Contact me via info@digitalphotoframeapp.com. I'd love to hear from you.

New Features & Improvements: - Fixed a slideshow crash caused by invalid saved color values, and automatically restore invalid slideshow background and border colors to safe defaults. - Hardened Core Data store migration and shared database recovery so incompatible saved slideshow data is migrated more safely, while widgets and Shortcuts back off during migration instead of crashing. Do love the App? Rate it! Your feedback keeps me coding to make the App better every day! Any questions? Contact me via info@digitalphotoframeapp.com. I'd love to hear from you.

New Features & Improvements: - Fixed a crash on Apple TV when toggling slideshow settings after returning from a sub-screen while the slide time picker was expanded. - Fixed slideshow auto play not working on Apple TV when reopening the app with a saved slideshow set to auto play (thanks Gary for the heads up!). - Improved performance. Do love the App? Rate it! Your feedback keeps me coding to make the App better every day! Any questions? Contact me via info@digitalphotoframeapp.com. I'd love to hear from you.

New Features & Improvements: - Added a Photo Orientation filter in Content Mode settings to show only landscape or portrait photos during slideshow playback, useful when the device is always in one orientation (thanks Valentin for the suggestion!). - Added a mute/unmute video button during slideshow playback to quickly toggle video sound. Available in the top bar on iPad, Mac, and Apple TV, or in the more menu on iPhone. - Added a hide photo button during slideshow playback to skip a photo for the rest of the current session. Available in the top bar on iPad, Mac, and Apple TV, or in the more menu on iPhone. - Added a new Shared Albums source that shows only iCloud shared albums from the Photo Library, so you can dedicate a section to photos contributed by friends and family. Disabled by default, enable it from the content sources settings. - Unified slideshow settings options across app entry points so playback, display, info pane, music, timer, and restore defaults are consistently available; the only option still hidden during active playback is "Show settings before slideshow". - Made Shuffle apply immediately when enabled from the in-slideshow settings screen, so the slide order reshuffles right away when resuming playback. - Fixed Mat Board Width on the Appearance screen not opening its picker on iOS 12, now using the same legacy menu fallback behavior as other settings rows. - Fixed on-screen image information and caption not displaying metadata (location, camera, lens) for photos from the Files source during slideshow playback. - Updated slideshow Content Mode preview so enabling Smart Pair shows two portrait sample images side by side, and disabling it returns to a single image preview. - Fixed widget style preset font mismatch on iOS 12 where the Customize Style device preview could show a different font than the selected preset card (for example, Editorial). Do love the App? Rate it! Your feedback keeps me coding to make the App better every day! Any questions? Contact me via info@digitalphotoframeapp.com. I'd love to hear from you.

New Features & Improvements: - Fixed a crash on app launch for iOS 12 devices when downloaded from the App Store. Do love the App? Rate it! Your feedback keeps me coding to make the App better every day! Any questions? Contact me via info@digitalphotoframeapp.com. I'd love to hear from you.

This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included. New Features & Improvements: - Added Open-Meteo weather provider, automatic fallback through all providers, accurate UV index, and fixed weather condition icons. - Fixed on-screen photo metadata not loading for photos from the Files source when security-scoped folder access was inactive. - Fixed Photo Library folders not showing the correct photo and video count on the home screen when "Show Library Folders" is enabled (thanks Andrew!). - Fixed French localization for album count strings showing missing spaces. - Fixed a crash during memory warnings when Photo Library access was not granted. Do love the App? Rate it! Your feedback keeps me coding to make the App better every day! Any questions? Contact me via info@digitalphotoframeapp.com. I'd love to hear from you.

New Features & Improvements: - Added adjustable white photo borders for slideshow playback, with widgets able to stay on the photo area or overlap the border (thanks Valentin for the suggestion!). - Added a default Photo Library sort setting in General settings, with the Photos app order as the default and per-album or per-section sorting still able to override it. - Improved Mac slideshow playback so moving the trackpad makes the cursor visible again for a few seconds, making it easier to reach the menu bar or interact with on-screen controls (thanks Craig for the suggestion!). - Fixed UV Index showing a 0-4 category level instead of the actual UV value in on-screen weather (thanks Valentin for the heads up!). - Fixed on-screen photo caption not displaying location, camera, or lens information for photos from the Files source, even when GPS coordinates were present in the file metadata (thanks Michael for letting me know!). - Fixed a crash when updating on-screen information box styles if a saved custom color value was invalid. - Improved iPad settings rows with trailing detail text so titles stay visible and subtitles use the remaining space. - Improved Files source folder loading performance by removing pagination and loading all items at once, eliminating the need to scroll to load more items (thanks Michael for the report!). Do love the App? Rate it! Your feedback keeps me coding to make the App better every day! Any questions? Contact me via info@digitalphotoframeapp.com. I'd love to hear from you.

New Features & Improvements: - Added style presets for on-screen information boxes, so you can quickly choose how Image Info, Weather, and Date boxes look. - You can now configure Image Info, Weather, and Date box styles directly from the slideshow screen by long-pressing each box. - You can now edit the content shown in Image Info, Weather, and Date boxes directly from the slideshow screen, without leaving playback. - Unified Files source add actions so both the section button and empty-state button now follow the same picker flow (menu on iOS 14+, dialog fallback on iOS 12/13). - Added Sort & Filter to Files folder collections so you can sort by name or date before starting the slideshow, matching the behavior available in other photo sources (thanks Michael for the heads up!). - Files items in detail view now open a read-only info sheet showing local file details plus available image or video metadata. - Fixed screen flashing white and scrolling back to the top when browsing large shared albums. - Simplified slideshow music selection by removing the single-track/multi-track mode toggle, so track picking now behaves consistently and always supports multi-track selection. - Slideshow video exports now include the selected soundtrack (downloaded songs or user library tracks when available). Do love the App? Rate it! Your feedback keeps me coding to make the App better every day! Any questions? Contact me via info@digitalphotoframeapp.com. I'd love to hear from you.

New Features & Improvements: - Added a new Files source so you can pick folders from the Files app and play slideshows with photos and videos stored in local or cloud-backed folders. - Added a Mac-only slideshow setting to prevent the macOS screen saver from appearing while a slideshow is playing (thanks Jeffrey for the suggestion). - Replaced the Ken Burns Continuous toggle with Ken Burns Motion options: Gentle Sweep (slide-synced) and Full Sweep (fixed pace). Do love the App? Rate it! Your feedback keeps me coding to make the App better every day! Any questions? Contact me via info@digitalphotoframeapp.com. I'd love to hear from you.

New Features & Improvements: - Added a Continuous Ken Burns mode that smoothly loops the pan animation back and forth at a consistent speed, ideal for longer slide intervals. - Fixed crash on macOS 26 when clicking the dock icon to reopen the app. - Fixed app becoming unresponsive when displaying on-screen information for video slides. - Fixed on-screen image information not displaying for certain photos and showing incorrect dates for Google Photos (thanks Scott Weller for the heads up!). - Fixed schedule toggle not updating the icon background color to reflect the enabled/disabled state. - Fixed Apple TV slideshow images and videos appearing overly bright and washed out (thanks Scott Burns for the heads up!). - Fixed Google Photos picker failing for users who signed in before the picker scope was added. A re-authentication alert now guides affected users to sign in again (thanks Sam for letting me know!). Do love the App? Rate it! Your feedback keeps me coding to make the App better every day! Any questions? Contact me via info@digitalphotoframeapp.com. I'd love to hear from you.

New Features & Improvements: - Added support for multi-image slides so a single slide can show more than one photo. - Fixed slideshow videos sometimes getting cut off (thanks Sashi for the heads up!). - Fixed shared albums not showing when "Show Library Folders" is enabled (thanks Zhuoran for the heads up!). - Fixed on-screen image captions missing title/date when metadata sources are unavailable or ordered after other fields. - Improved Ken Burns behavior and slideshow transitions overall. Do love the App? Rate it! Your feedback keeps me coding to make the App better every day! Any questions? Contact me via info@digitalphotoframeapp.com. I'd love to hear from you.

New Features & Improvements: - Hide video duration labels while their collection cell is selected, preventing the checkmark from overlapping the timer. - Added explanatory footers to the tvOS Videos/Live Photos mute sections so it’s clear why Apple Music pauses when a clip plays. - When a slideshow ends from a collection detail view, the detail view now returns to the last slide that was shown. - Fixed Apple TV album selection changing while scrolling horizontally in selection mode (thanks Allie for the heads up!). - Improved Apple TV slideshow photo rendering to reduce rare display glitches (thanks again Allie!). Do love the App? Rate it! Your feedback keeps me coding to make the App better every day! Any questions? Contact me via info@digitalphotoframeapp.com. I'd love to hear from you.

New Features & Improvements: - Added AirPlay support for slideshows with a new AirPlay button in the player controls. - Added Home Screen widgets for saved slideshows with small, medium, and large sizes. - Users can now filter Google Photos albums by images/videos and date ranges (Last Weekend, Last Week, Last Month, Current Year, Last Year), matching the filtering capabilities available for Photo Library albums. - More reliable performance while the app runs in the background. - Smoother slideshow exports. - Smoother Photo Library browsing. - Slideshows now show the collection title when playing from a single album. Do love the App? Rate it! Your feedback keeps me coding to make the App better every day! Any questions? Contact me via info@digitalphotoframeapp.com. I'd love to hear from you.

New Features & Improvements: - Start Slideshow shortcuts can now pick a random saved slideshow (thanks Sven for the idea!). - Added top center and bottom center options for on-screen image caption placement during slideshows (thanks Jim for the suggestion!). - Added name sorting to album photos in the Sort & Filter screen. - Added per-source toggles for image caption titles, so missing metadata no longer forces a fallback title. - Added album caption configuration and now show collection/slideshow names for album captions across saved slideshows and network galleries. - Fixed Image Caption toggle selections not persisting in slideshow settings. - Fixed folder names displaying incorrectly or shuffling when navigating into Photo Library folders (thanks Steffen and Wouter for reporting!). Do love the App? Rate it! Your feedback keeps me coding to make the App better every day! Any questions? Contact me via info@digitalphotoframeapp.com. I'd love to hear from you.

New Features & Improvements: - New sharing across detail and slideshow views, including full video exporting & sharing for slideshow. - Improved Google Photos integration with new selection and import capabilities. - Fixed invalid batch update crash when toggling the slide time picker in Apple TV slideshow settings. - Prevented muted videos/Live Photos from ducking background audio during slideshows. Do love the App? Rate it! Your feedback keeps me coding to make the App better every day! Any questions? Contact me via info@digitalphotoframeapp.com. I'd love to hear from you.

New Features & Improvements: - Fixed performance issue. Do love the App? Rate it! Your feedback keeps me coding to make the App better every day! Any questions? Contact me via info@digitalphotoframeapp.com. I'd love to hear from you.

New Features & Improvements: New: - Enhanced slideshow timer dialogs with intelligent conflict detection, now alerts users when schedule mode is enabled but loop is disabled, potentially causing early slideshow termination. The app automatically detects timing conflicts and prompts users to enable loop mode to ensure continuous playback during scheduled periods. Improved: - Enhanced memory management with aggressive cache cleanup during memory warnings to significantly reduce crashes by clearing all image caches, network caches, API request caches, geocoding caches, and face detection caches. - Improved PhotoLibrary original image size setting to use device-appropriate sizing (actual screen resolution) instead of maximum resolution for better performance and memory usage while maintaining optimal visual quality. Do love the App? Rate it! Your feedback keeps me coding to make the App better every day! Any questions? Contact me via info@digitalphotoframeapp.com. I'd love to hear from you.

New Features & Improvements: Improved: - Fixed slideshow getting stuck after interruptions (notifications, Control Center, phone calls) by improving state management during app lifecycle transitions - Fixed slideshow timer-based resume logic to properly restart playback when returning from background - Improved slideshow auto-play to only activate when on the main screen, preventing unexpected slideshow starts when navigating through settings or other app areas Do love the App? Rate it! Your feedback keeps me coding to make the App better every day! Any questions? Contact me via info@digitalphotoframeapp.com. I'd love to hear from you.

New Features & Improvements: Improved: - Fixed issue with slideshow life cycle management to properly handle app background/foreground transitions and prevent duplicate autoplay slideshows - Modernized slideshow control buttons with improved accessibility and visual consistency. - Fixed an issue where slideshow loading overlay could remain visible after dismissing slideshows, ensuring proper cleanup of presentation overlays. - Simplified slideshow lifecycle management to always resume playback when returning to the app from notifications, Control Center, Siri, phone calls, or other system interruptions. Do love the App? Rate it! Your feedback keeps me coding to make the App better every day! Any questions? Contact me via info@digitalphotoframeapp.com. I'd love to hear from you.