Apple will phase out Aperture and iPhoto, replacing them with the new Photos app

Jun27

by Sindy Cator on June 27, 2014 at 5:27 pm

Considering Apple’s halting development of iPhoto, its consumer photo editing-tool and Aperture, its professional photo management tool for the Mac over the last year or so, coupled with the merging of iPhoto’s database with Aperture’s, it seemed inevitable that a change was afoot. And today, that change has come. Apple has confirmed that it is both ending development of its Aperture photo management tool and dropping iPhoto from Apple’s slate of apps, and replacing both with the new Photos app for the upcoming OS X Yosemite, introduced at its WWDC keynote last month. “With the introduction of the new Photos app and iCloud…