Release notes.

New Features

Filter by orientation

A new Image Orientation option lets you narrow your library to Portrait, Landscape, Square, or Panorama photos and videos in the advanced filter editor. (View → Filter Items or ⌥⌘F)

See your lens make & model

Iris now records the lens make and model for your photos and shows it in the inspector. Lens information is also searchable.

Create a person from your Contacts

When adding a new person, you can now choose "Choose from Contacts…" to pull their name and birthdate straight from a card in the macOS Contacts app, instead of typing it in by hand. (Thanks to AB, MF, C, and others.)

Surprise Me

A new Sidebar Surprise Me! command (⌥⇧⌘9) jumps you to a random spot in your library — a fun way to rediscover old photos. This is in addition to the existing Surprise Me! command that jumps directly to a random photo or video.

More detail in the Source inspector

Selecting a Source now shows the total number of screenshots in addition to images and videos in the inspector.

What's new?

Added a "Release Notes" item under the "Help" menu that displays release notes from all previous versions.

Fixes

Apple Photos edits now show up in Iris

If you edit a photo in Apple Photos, Iris more reliably displays your edited version rather than the untouched original. Iris will need to one-time, re-scan for edits in your Apple Photos library to "catch up" after this update.

JPEG/HEIC + RAW Photos in Apple Photos

When available, show the "developed" version of a RAW photo in an Apple Photos library. (Thanks to JG)

Corrected capture dates from filenames

Iris no longer misreads sequence numbers in filenames as dates. For example, a file named 2026-06-00025.JPG was incorrectly guessed as June 25 — it's now handled correctly. (Thanks to MK)

Ghost Videos

Fixed a bug where a video would continue playing audio after you switched to the map view.

Crash fixes

• Fixed a crash in the grid view that could occur when an item was reprocessed in the background.
• Improved database resilience: Iris now automatically repairs certain internal inconsistencies so libraries continue to open and heal themselves rather than failing. (Thanks to MB)

"On This Day" with no people

The Go → On This Day menu now shows a clearly disabled "No People" entry when your library doesn't have any people yet, instead of behaving unexpectedly.

Person age accuracy

Corrected a bug where a person's age was calculated incorrectly if they were born on December 31.

Interface Polish

• Renamed the "Jump to" menu item to "Open Quickly".
• Reordered the items in the Go menu.
• Reordered the fields in the Details inspector.
• Fixed the Help window's title and default size and position. (Thanks to JG)

New Features

Iris is now better at noticing when your media changes and refreshes it automatically.

• Files edited on disk in a folder Source are detected and reprocessed — thumbnails, EXIF, and ML output are regenerated.
• Edited Apple Photos assets are detected and reprocessed as well.
• Items you delete outside of Iris from a folder Source or Apple Photos library are also removed from Iris.
• New "Refresh" item added to the Source context menu to manually rescan a Source. (Thanks, JH)

Open Items in other Applications

• Added new "Open" (⌘O) and "Open With..." commands to the "Item" menu that let you open the selected Item in an external app. (Thanks, GM)

Alternate app icons

• Escape from Squircle Jail 🎉 Choose from additional app icons from the Special preferences pane. (Thanks, MG)

Put Faces in the macOS Dock

• Turn on the new "Show Faces in Dock" preference in Settings → Special. Then, you can add pictures of your favorite people to the Dock. Why? Why not.

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Re-open the Status Window on launch if previously open. (Thanks, AB)
• When switching between sidebar nodes, the Inspector panel is better at handling when no items are selected.
• Fixed the most common crash on macOS Tahoe. (NSToolbar 🙄)
• Fixed grid/map/list and inspector tab menu items being enabled when they weren't actually available.
• Correctly count the number of times a person appears "Alone" when viewing their statistics.
• ML generated tags are (hopefully!) better at avoiding false positives.
• You can now dismiss the "No Locations" card from the Locations view. (Thanks, CL)
• Uses the correct Apple Photos capture date when reprocessing changed assets.
• Deceased names are now hidden from an item's "On This Day." (Thanks, MJ)
• Deceased names are now hidden from the "Add to Person" menu. (Thanks, MJ)
• Support for approximate dates and age ranges when an item's exact dates aren't known.

• Fix a crash that could occur when viewing the Metadata inspector.
• Improved the performance of the People inspector when viewing a PNG image with many faces.

This update is focused on fixing crashes found in the first release. Thank you to everyone who has been reporting them.

• Crash could occur when a photo contained non-numeric characters in the EXIF date.
• Crash would occur when performing an advanced search and using "Starts with" or "Contains" on an item's "Filename".
• Crash could occur when scrolling the grid view and quickly switching sidebar nodes.