iPhone OS 4.0 Secrets: Faces and more in Photos app

Looks like the iPhone OS 4.0 update will bring ever more Desktop-class features into the mobile sphere. An anonymous TUAW tipster has sent in the following photos, showing several new features in action.

These include Faces for iPhone, e-mail resizing options, and a kick-ass assets editor that allows you to choose multiple items for deletion. Faces technology was first introduced on OS X in iPhoto 8.0.2. It uses face detection to distinguish faces within pictures from other objects within images.

The pictures in this gallery represent just a few of the new features hidden away in the 4.0 update. We can't wait to see more. You know how to contact us.

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Mark

i hope that when they mention delete its not the current iteration. I bought the ipad for many reason's and i'm almost totally happy with it but i was expecting to be able to better manage my photos on it. I.E. being able to import my bulk photo library (or fresh photos taken while away from home using the connector kit) and then pare it down through the iphone os. I can't believe i still need to go into my existing library at home (separated into folders by year) and basically copy all my "share worthy" photos into a separate folder before syncing with itunes. So i hope they mean i will be able delete actual photos off the devices not just ones taken or saved from within.

April 09 2010 at 11:05 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Fan-of-iTech

Faces? :O
OMG That's good!

April 08 2010 at 6:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Jeff

I assume, like on the iPad, that a mac with iPhoto has to do the heavy lifting, and the iPhone (again like the iPad) can *display* faces info, not detect or embed.

April 08 2010 at 8:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ben

Yeah, the "kick-ass assets manager" is already there in OS3.1.3

April 08 2010 at 5:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mahesh

Can we get the faces feature to work if the iphone syncs with a pc? Either the iphone itself taking care of it or perhaps reading metadata from third party apps like picasa.

April 08 2010 at 4:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Anthony

It won't... Currently, Notes, Calender, and probably something else can't sync with Window's. That's ridiculous. Photo's probably won't get special features in Windows and they will show up as empty in the iPhone.

April 08 2010 at 5:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

stockholmstockholm

Not getting it. You can already select multiple photos and share/copy/delete. Difference being?

April 08 2010 at 4:00 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Steven

Yeah, the select multiple images for sending copying or deleting has been a feature for a long time. The user might not have been familiar.

April 08 2010 at 4:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

frank

if i can multiple-click and delete stuff in batches in my email in-box, then i'll be a happy, happy man.

April 08 2010 at 3:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Can't you already? Click edit, tap a bunch of emails, click delete. Are you looking for something different?

April 08 2010 at 3:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

frank

well, yes, but i would really like a way to delete everything in there at once -- a one button solution. sorry, i didn't word my original post correctly. : /

April 08 2010 at 4:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dale

The email image sizing was on the slide with the features call out.

April 08 2010 at 3:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply