I just backed up all 58,000 of my images to my NAS. 24 of them failed to backup. The thumbnail is so small I cannot tell what all of them are. The majority are memes and shit that idgaf about, but there is one that I can tell is from a digital camera by the file name.

Searching for the file name in photos yields no results, is there a way to find this image with nothing more than the file name?

Update: if you have a Mac you can search the file name in photos there and it works.

There is a lot to cover, but the title sums it up. I stopped keeping my photos in the cloud because of money and privacy reasons, but at the same time I couldn’t find a nice software that wasn’t a web app or an Electron web app that would run on iPhones and iPads, and would let me browse the library without headaches.

So I built Raza Photos. Completely written in modern Swift 6, requiring the latest Apple frameworks, needing at least macOS and iOS 26 (sorry), with no Internet connectivity, no telemetry, no phoning home, no ads, no subscriptions, no accounts.

You import the photo folders you want the Mac app. It safely indexes the metadata, leaves the photos exactly where they are, and uses Bonjour to advertise itself on your local network. You can start or stop the server if you want to use the app by yourself or publish the library to the whole family. When you open Raza Photos on any iPhone, iPad, or Mac in the house, it instantly discovers the server. If you have multiple Macs hosting libraries, it finds them all and shows a complete library, with deduplicated filters.

You can browse, filter by date, location, people, albums and events, and you can even edit metadata from iOS while on the couch. The changes can go back to the original files as XMP/EXIF, without touching the image pixels. You can add countries and cities to photos that have GPS data and you can browse them all on a map. Face detection is done locally on the device.

The app is free for now, but it will be a one time purchase of around 20 USD. In the future I plan to add photo transfer from iOS to the Mac server, so you can backup your photos or migrate them away from iCloud. I also plan more photo management features like date taken conflict resolution and better face detection. And I also plan to extract a Swift headless server for Linux which you could put on a NAS, but I am a just solo dev, so bug fixes and features will come at a slower pace. I also plan a video app and a music app with the same features.

It's so limiting because of how locked down iOS is. I can do a lot with an NFC tag but can't make a VCard work. That's the one thing I really want to work! HAHA. Any ideas? Any news on Apple making this work eventually?

I have iphone 16 pro with latest ios (26.3.1) and i usualy have both wifi and 4g turned on all the time. So i expect that it will connect to my home wifi and when i get out it will automaticly disconect and stay on 4g. Which works fine but the problem is when i get back home it doesnt connect to wi fi but spends my MB of 4g and after quiet some time it decides to connect to wifi..

Also when i go to work which is besides my house it doesnt automaticly switch to work wifi with stronger signal, but stays on my home wifi which can bearly reach… Wtf apple???

And this is not new isue, i had same problem with previous iphone in previous house and so on… Wifi just sucks on iphones for some reason..

Howdy yall, I have gripes with the iOS UI and I spent way too long on these edits. Here are my proposed edits.

Option to have an alphabetical grid App Library.

The keyboard should ditch the microphone and globe icons on the bottom, move the keyboard down, and add a number row. The mic and globe can be repurposed in the ui somehow.

I just want to have horizontal brightness and volume sliders.