Presenting

Present fills the screen with one photograph at a time, so you can show a shoot to a customer across the table or a holiday to the family. Choose Slideshow in Browse’s toolbar on Mac or near the foot of its view menu on iPhone and iPad. With an iPhone held sideways, the view menu lists the views first and the rest under More. The default sequence includes kept photographs and photographs whose current version has edits, in Browse’s order, with folded sets represented by their covers.

For a sequence of your own, select two or more photographs and choose Present from the Photo menu, the selection bar or a photograph’s context menu. These appear in the order you selected them. Each photograph uses its current version. On Duo, a steady tent posture opens the slideshow automatically after two seconds. Hinge angle, gravity and movement infer the posture; a very still held device can look similar. Picking the device up or unfolding it leaves the show. The same touch controls remain available.

Frames renders every photograph before the show opens, at the size of the display it will fill, so nothing stutters once it starts. Where some of the originals are not on this machine, a sheet says how many have to be downloaded and roughly how much that is, and shows the presentation as a contact sheet. Prepare fetches and renders and then opens; while it works, each photograph turns from dark to grey as its original arrives and into colour when it is ready, the one in hand is outlined, and a line names what is happening to it, with an estimate of the time left once a few are done. Present Now opens the show at once, before or during preparation, and shows the smaller preview of any photograph that is not ready yet, sharpening as each one lands. On iPhone and iPad, preparation keeps going if you leave Frames, and the screen stays on while the sheet is up.

On Apple TV. Browse a chosen Photos album, then choose Slideshow to show its kept and developed photographs. An empty library offers Choose an Album. Clicking a grid photograph opens the album at that photograph and starts the timed advance; Play/Pause holds the photograph on screen. Hold Select on a grid photograph to open its Info. Present fills the television. Behind the grid, the photograph you rest on becomes the room’s colour, and the focused photograph tilts and catches the light under your thumb on the remote. The album picker opens on a band for the current album; select the band to return to it. The remote advances or pauses the show. Apple TV receives synced ratings, verdicts and edits and does not change them. The grid shows each photograph’s local preview; a presentation shows the synced edit once Prepare has rendered it.

Left and right move one photograph, ⌘← and ⌘→ jump to either end, and nothing wraps: reaching the last photograph holds it. space starts and stops a timed advance. Press I for the count. Press , for the settings, which are remembered on this device: how long each photograph stays, how long the change to the next one takes, Motion and Transition. Drift zooms slowly into each photograph while it is shown; by the end it hides at most about five per cent of the photograph at any one edge. Still shows it as framed. A transition is a Dissolve, a Slide in the direction you page, or a Fade to Black. Apple TV drifts by default; Mac, iPhone and iPad start still. On Mac, iPhone and iPad, large controls provide previous, play/pause, next, settings and exit. They fade after three seconds of inactivity. Tap the photograph to reveal them; on Mac, moving the pointer also reveals them. Swipes page on touch devices. Settings stay visible while open, and accessibility focus keeps the controls available. The controls spring on press, symbols change with playback, and the position animates as you page. Reduce Motion simplifies these animations, shows and hides the controls without a fade, holds each photograph still, and cuts between photographs with no transition.

Nothing you press during a presentation changes anything. Ratings, verdicts, undo, delete and the mode keys are all refused while the show is up, so a guest leaning over the keyboard cannot mark your photographs. esc leaves, and the photograph you stopped on is the one selected in the view behind. See Downloads for what preparing a presentation costs.