In 1.2.1 photos now land on the day the camera recorded, full stop — no longer nudged by the time zone your Mac happens to be set to. If you travel with the laptop, your archive stops shifting under you. FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS - Improvements made to "Surprise Me". - Minimum Width is now Minimum Size, and measures the long edge — so a portrait shot no longer gets filtered out while the landscape frame beside it, from the same camera, passes. - Launches are quicker now, too. One-time note: this update re-reads your library once, to fix a bug in how it recorded file timestamps. Expect one slower start, then it settles.

"The viewer grew up in this one." Slideshow: press Play on any day (or Space in the viewer) and let it run — the controls fade away after a moment, leaving just your photos. Move the mouse or touch a key to bring them back. Zoom: double-click or press Z to zoom into a photo, pinch on a trackpad, drag to pan. Esc steps back out. More detail, when you want it: press I to cycle the photo info overlay — off, the basics, or the full picture with camera, lens and exposure settings. Right-click now works in the viewer too. Surprise Me remembers: press the left arrow to step back through photos you've already seen — no more losing a great find by advancing too fast. Also fixed: leaving the viewer no longer sends the grid back to the top or collapses expanded years, and photos within each year now appear in the order they were taken. ONE-TIME NOTE: to read the new lens and exposure details, this update re-scans your photo folders once after installing. Large archives will see the indexing bar for a few minutes; everything stays browsable while it runs, and later launches are instant as before.

Two new ways to shape what surfaces — without touching what's indexed. Year range: a new slider in Settings narrows both On This Day and Surprise Me to the years you choose. Relive just the film-scan years, or keep last month's shoot out of the rotation. Photos without a date step aside while a range is set — and the slider tells you how many. Hide a folder: every folder in Settings now has an eye toggle. Hidden folders stay fully indexed, but their photos stop appearing in both modes — handy when Flashbacks is on screen with other people around. One click brings them back, and the choice survives relaunch.

Your archive now stays current by itself. On every launch, Photo Flashbacks quietly checks your folders in the background — new photos appear and deleted photos are cleaned up automatically, while everything you've already indexed shows instantly. Offline drives are now fully protected: if an external drive is disconnected, its folder shows an "Unavailable" badge in Settings and its photos are never removed from your archive — including during a Full Rescan. Also fixed: arrow keys in the fullscreen viewer keep working after clicking a button, replaced photos update their thumbnails, and rapid rescan clicks can no longer tangle the index.

Easier to find the days that matter, and a smoother Surprise Me. Empty dates no longer dead-end — On This Day now suggests the nearest days that actually have photos, so you always have somewhere to go. New "Previous / Next Day with Photos" commands (Cmd+Option+Left/Right) skip straight past the empty days, and the date in the toolbar is now clickable to jump to any day on a calendar. Surprise Me no longer blinks to black between photos — the current photo stays on screen until the next is ready, and any photo you've already seen appears instantly.

Busy days are easier to browse. When a year has more than 20 photos on a date, the overflow tile now expands that year inline — tap "Show all" to see every photo, "Show less" to collapse it again. Previously the tile jumped straight to the fullscreen viewer.

Fixed: photos from Sony, Fuji, Panasonic, and other cameras that write dates with subsecond precision or a timezone offset were not appearing in On This Day. After updating, go to Settings and run Rescan All to reindex your library. Added: Help - Send Feedback for direct bug reports.

Faster photo viewing. Arrow-navigating photos in the fullscreen loupe now preloads the next and previous photos, so moving through a day feels near-instant. Returning to a photo you've already seen is immediate. Missing photos no longer spin forever. If you've indexed photos from an external drive that's now disconnected, you'll see a clear indicator on each uncached tile instead of a stuck loading spinner. Cleaner copy throughout — reworded empty states, toolbar badges, and Settings labels to match the voice of the rest of the app. Plus: a smoother date-arrow experience on very large archives, better diagnostic logging when disk operations fail, and a few one-liner bug fixes under the hood.