Add titles, descriptions and more to photos using Photos on Mac
You can view and add information about your photos. For example, you can see the date and time a photo was taken, information about the camera that took the photo, and badges that indicate the state of the photo. You can assign titles and captions to photos, add or change the location of photos, and change the date and time information for them. You can select multiple photos and add or change information about them all at once.
Tip: You can add text captions, dates, arrows and other shapes directly to a photo using the Markup tools. See Use Markup to write or draw on a photo.
View and add information about photos
You use the Info window to view or change information about photos.
In the Photos app on your Mac, double-click a photo to view it, then click the Info button in the toolbar or press Command-I.
Edit any of the following:
Title: Enter a name in the Title field.
Tip: To quickly add titles to photos right in the main Photos window, choose View > Metadata > Titles, click the field that appears under a photo when you hold the pointer over it, then type a name.
Description: Enter a caption in the Description field.
Favourite: Click the Favourite button to mark the photo as a favourite. Click the button again to unmark it.
Keywords: Enter keywords in the Keywords field. As you type, Photos suggests keywords that you’ve used before. Press Enter when you’ve finished a keyword.
To remove a keyword, select it and press Delete.
People: Click the Add button and type a name to identify a person.
To identify multiple people in a photo, click the Add button and drag the face identifier over each person you want to identify.
Location: Enter a location in the Location field. To change a location, search for a different location or drag a pin on the map. (You can’t assign a location if your computer is not connected to the Internet.)
Display titles, other metadata and badges
You can display the title you assign to photos, metadata (information about each photo, such as its filename), and badges that identify whether the photo has been edited, had keywords added and more.
In the Photos app on your Mac, choose View > Metadata > [metadata name].
Badge | Meaning | ||||||||||
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Photo has been edited. | |||||||||||
Photo has had keywords applied. | |||||||||||
Photo’s location has been identified on a map. | |||||||||||
Photo has been marked as a favourite. | |||||||||||
Item is a video, slo-mo or time-lapse clip. | |||||||||||
Original photo is stored in another location (not in the Photos library on your Mac). | |||||||||||
Original photo was taken as a High Dynamic Range (HDR) photo that combines three photos taken at different exposures. | |||||||||||
Original photo was taken as a RAW + JPEG photo that includes a RAW and JPEG version. (The badge appears as an R when viewing the RAW version of a photo.) | |||||||||||
Item is a Live Photo. | |||||||||||
Item is a Live Photo set to Bounce. | |||||||||||
Item is a Live Photo set to Loop. | |||||||||||
Item is a Live Photo set to Long Exposure. | |||||||||||
Item is a portrait photo. |
Change a photo’s date and time
You can change the date and time associated with a photo — for example, if you travel to another time zone, and your camera assigns dates and times that are correct for your home but not the place you visited.
In the Photos app on your Mac, select the photos you want to change.
Choose Image > Adjust Date and Time.
Enter the date and time you want in the Adjusted field.
Click a time zone on the map and choose the closest town/city, if necessary.
Click Adjust.
Remove a photo’s location
You can remove a photo’s location information or restore its original location information.
In the Photos app on your Mac, select the photos you want to change.
Choose Image > Location, then choose Hide Location or Revert to Original Location.
If you manually assigned location information to a photo that did not have it, Revert to Original Location removes the location information you assigned.