I'm a Certified Photo Organiser helping overwhelmed, time-poor families take back control of their photos — sharing practical, no-nonsense tips so you can stop feeling stuck and start actually enjoying your memories, one small step at a time. Co-hosted in earlier seasons with Fiona Staff.
131 | 5 Questions to Ask Before You Use AI on Your Photos
AI can edit, restore and even help manage your photos, often for free and often without you even realising that you are using AI. But just because you can change a photo, should you? In this episode I share the five questions I ask myself before I let AI change a photo (which I kind of hardly ever do). I start with a very personal one: the last photo of me and my granddad, where my eyes are closed. I also share what happened when I tested AI restoration on an old photo of my brothers from the 1970s. There is no single right answer here... but there is your answer.
In this episode:
The difference between fixing a photo and changing the story it tells.
What AI does well and where it goes wrong.
Why a photo that shows its age may not need fixing at all.
How a change you make today could confuse your family in fifty years.
Why AI is great at finding duplicates and blurry photos, but cannot know what a photo means to you.
Two simple habits that keep you in control when you do use AI.
Mentioned in this episode:
The iOS 27 and Apple Photos series, Episodes 128 to 130 (https://photosinorder.com.au/podcast/)
What would you do with the photo of me and my granddad? Would you open my eyes, or leave it as it is? Tell me in the comments, I would love to know. And if you’d like to see the before and after comparison, make sure you’ve subscribed to my newsletter (https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/y6u0k1), I’ll share the pictures there.
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6 Oct 2026
130 | Share and Enjoy Your Photos with iOS 27
Have you ever come home from a family holiday or a birthday party, and then spent the next two weeks asking everybody to send you their photos? And when they finally arrive, they come through WhatsApp, compressed and without the capture date?!
In this episode, I show you how sharing photos on your iPhone has become a lot easier with iOS 27. Shared albums in Apple Photos got a big upgrade, there is a new way to turn your photos into a slideshow video, and I share four quick wins that help you enjoy your photos every day. This is part three, and the last part, of my short series about iOS 27 and Apple Photos.
In this episode
The six changes to shared albums in iOS 27, including temporary shared albums that delete themselves after 30 days.
Why full resolution sharing is good news for prints and photo books, and what it means for your iCloud storage.
How family and friends with an Android phone or a Windows computer can now add their photos to your shared album.
One downside I found in my own testing, and what really happens to a photo when you add it to a shared album.
How to make your own slideshow in Apple Photos and save it as a video.
Four quick wins: save a video frame as a photo, find the photos you took yourself with Captured By Me, see all your selected photos on one screen, and get more out of the Photo Shuffle wallpaper.
One small thing you can do today to get your photos back into your life
Mentioned in this episode
Part 1 of the series: Episode 128, Find Your Photos Faster with iOS 27 (https://www.diyphotoorganising.com.au/128-find-your-photos-faster-with-ios-27/)
Part 2 of the series: Episode 129, 3 New Ways to Edit Photos on Your iPhone (https://www.diyphotoorganising.com.au/129-3-new-ways-to-edit-photos-on-your-iphone/)
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Learn with me. If you would like step by step help to organise your photos, have a look at my online courses (https://photosinorder.com.au/photo-organising-courses/).
29 Sept 2026
129 | 3 New Ways to Edit Photos on Your iPhone
The iOS 27 update has added three new AI editing tools to Apple Photos on iPhone, and in this episode I walk through what each one does and how to find them.
Clean Up, the tool for removing things you do not want in a photo, just got a lot better. Extend and Reframe are brand new, letting you expand a photo past its original edges or even shift the angle it was taken from. None of it touches your original photo, so there is no harm in giving these a try.
In this episode:
What is new for editing photos in Apple Photos with the iOS 27 update.
Clean Up, improved. How this existing tool now copes with bigger and more complicated objects, not just small blemishes.
Extend - how to expand a photo past its original edges with a simple pinch gesture.
Reframe - how to change the camera angle on a photo after it has already been taken.
Where to find these tools on your iPhone, step by step.
Why your original photo is always safe, and how to undo any edit with Revert.
Want a reminder of all 5 Golden Rules of Photo Organising?
This episode connects back to Golden Rule 4, Sort and Organise, my framework for getting your photos under control. Grab my free one page 5 Golden Rules of Photo Organising checklist here (https://lm.photosinorder.com.au/5-golden-rules-checklist).
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