Shortcuts Apple Photos for MacOS

MacOS

We present to your attention the shortcuts for the Apple Photos for MacOS which is used on the operating system MacOS, in this hotkeys description 64 of the most popular and important shortcuts are offered. You can also add your changes on our portal if you consider the data insufficiently complete or add a new program from the very beginning.

Organize

MacOS	Description Edit Cancel Save & submit
Home	Move to the top of the photo library
End	Move to the bottom of the photo library
Command+N	Create new album
Shift+Command+N	Create new album from selection
Option+Command+N	Create new Smart Album
Shift+Command+T	Show or hide titles
Shift+Command+K	Show or hide keywords
Shift+Command+F	Show or hide film rolls
Hold down the Option key and click the triangle next to any film roll	Show or hide all film roll photos
Shift+Command+R	Show or hide ratings
Shift+Command+B	Set the title, date, or comments of multiple photos
Command+K	Assign, edit, or search by keywords
Command+I	Show a photo’s image and camera information
Command+D	Duplicate a photo
Command+X	Cut photo
Command+C	Copy photo
Command+V	Paste photo
Delete	Move photo to Trash from the photo library, or remove photo from album
Command+Option+Delete	Move photo to Trash from album
Double+click the photo	Open photo in its own window or in edit view (depends on the double+click preference you set)
Option+double+click the photo	Reverse double+click preference when opening a photo

Rating photos

MacOS	Description Edit Cancel Save & submit
Command+0	Assign zero stars to a photo
Command+1	Assign zero stars to a photo
Command+2	Assign zero stars to a photo
Command+3	Assign zero stars to a photo
Command+4	Assign zero stars to a photo
Command+5	Assign zero stars to a photo

Import

MacOS	Description Edit Cancel Save & submit
Shift+Command+I	Import photos

Edit

MacOS	Description Edit Cancel Save & submit
Command+R	Rotate photo clockwise
Option+Command+R	Rotate photo counter clockwise
Right Arrow key	Go to next photo
Left Arrow key	Go to previous photo
Press the Command key while dragging	Disable constrain setting when selecting an area
Press the Option key while dragging	Switch between portrait and landscape constrain setting when selecting an area
Double+click the photo	Return to organize view
Command+Z	Undo last action
Shift+Command+Z	Redo last action

Selecting and deselecting photos

MacOS	Description Edit Cancel Save & submit
Click the photo	Select a single photo
Command+A	Select all photos
Hold down the Shift key and click the non+adjacent photo	Select all photos between the current selection and a non+adjacent photo
Select the first photo, then hold down the Command key and click additional photos	Select photos that are non+adjacent to each other
Click outside the photos and drag to enclose them within the selection rectangle	Select several photos located together
Click the film roll icon	Select all photos in a film roll
Hold down the Command key and click the photos you want to deselect	Deselect specific photos in a group of selected photos
Shift+Command+A or click outside a photo	Deselect all photos

Slideshow

MacOS	Description Edit Cancel Save & submit
Press the mouse button	Stop a slideshow
Press the Space bar	Pause and resume playing
Use the Up and Down Arrow keys	Adjust the speed
Use the Right and Left Arrow keys	Move through a slideshow manually
Press 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5	Rate photos

MacOS	Description Edit Cancel Save & submit
Command+P	Print
Shift+Command+P	Page setup

Book

MacOS	Description Edit Cancel Save & submit
Select the first page you want changed and press the Option key when choosing a design from the Page Design pop+up menu	Apply a page design through the end of a book
Command+T	Show fonts
Command+3	Copy font
Command+4	Paste font
Command+: (colon)	Spelling