Grid

Press ⌘1 to view photographs as thumbnails at an adjustable size.

Click to select, ⌘-click to add or remove photographs, drag a selection rectangle, or ⇧-click to select a range. Double-click a photograph for Loupe. Double-click within a multiple selection for Compare.

Press ⌘A to select every photograph the grid shows; a folded set gives its cover. Hold ⇧ with an arrow key to extend the selection one photograph at a time, and with the opposite arrow to give photographs back.

On Mac, click and hold a photograph to preview it larger with its filename and capture details. It shows the thumbnail immediately, then loads the original at full resolution with the selected development. A cloud original may download while you hold. Release the mouse button to return to the grid and cancel the load. Start moving before the preview appears to drag the photograph instead. The preview fades in and out as you hold and release. Newly arriving Mac grid frames fade and rise into place; Reduce Motion keeps these changes immediate.

Sort and size. Choose oldest first (the default), newest first, highest rated or filename. Filename breaks ties between capture times recorded in the same second. Thumbnail size is preserved when the window or sidebar changes size. On iPhone and iPad, pinch the grid to change the number of columns. The photographs follow your fingers and settle on the nearest column count when you lift them. On iPhone and iPad, a capture-date sort starts each day with a heading that names the day and counts its photographs; the other sorts draw no headings.

Photograph display. Square cells centre each photograph at its own aspect ratio, inside a black surround. Captions align across the row. Selection uses blue corner brackets, set apart from a kept frame’s chalk box. Selected undecided and rejected filenames brighten; kept filenames stay amber. On iPhone and iPad, a tap opens a photograph, so the grid draws no selection mark until you tap Select. Moving the selection with the arrow keys on an iPad keyboard shows the brackets until the keys rest. Loupe’s filmstrip always marks the photograph on screen.

Mark	Meaning
Chalk box and amber ▸	Kept
Chalk strike and red ✕	Rejected
Blue D	Selected version is developed
Amber version count	More than one version is saved

A version count without D means the photograph is displayed as ORIGINAL. One version has no count. Version names appear in Develop’s version picker.

Small cells. At 128 pt and above, a caption line shows the filename and stars. Long filenames shorten in the middle, preserving the extension. On a phone or an iPad the caption line starts at 96 pt and carries the frame’s number and its stars. Below 128 pt on the Mac, verdicts and stars move to corners. Verdicts use the same glyph in the caption and corner. Below 96 pt, the surrounding bands disappear and marks use dark backgrounds over the photograph. Badge sizes are limited to keep them legible. Loupe’s filmstrip follows the same size rules.

Rejected photographs. Rejected thumbnails are dimmed in Grid and the filmstrip and struck through corner to corner in chalk, the strike reaching the corners a kept frame’s box would have. Cleanup displays them at normal brightness and unstruck for review. Loupe and Compare always display them at normal brightness.

Placeholders. Unavailable photographs show NOT LOCAL or UNREADABLE. Very small placeholders omit the text.

Selection and scrolling. A filter can hide the selected photograph; switching to a phase that includes it restores it. A new set opens at its end; otherwise the grid preserves its position. Rating, rejecting and new iCloud arrivals do not force a scroll jump. On iPhone and iPad, a collection at least three screens long shows a date scrubber at the trailing edge while you scroll. Drag its thumb to move through the collection; a bubble beside it names the day at the top of the grid, with its year. With VoiceOver on, the scrubber stays shown, and swiping up or down on it moves a tenth of the way.

Thumbnail transitions and rating animations honour Reduce Motion. Sets share a warm background and a header with a stacked-frame icon and count.

See Sets.