Photos app export and drag

I always search for Mac Photos or iPhone Photos and I don't have the problem of getting confusing results.

Drag and drop isn't really supported in Mac Photos. Exactly how it works may change with the OS. Since Photos is a non-destructive editor, dragging might have many different results, like getting the original, getting the edited version without metadata, getting a preview sized copy, having a copy with the Title for the file name, and so on. I might want one option; you might want another. Since even with AI, Photos still can't read our minds, we use the Export dialog.

If you would like to let Apple know how you think it should work, go here:

Feedback - Photos - Apple

As a work-around: I am collecting the photos I want to export in an album, and export them later all together by selecting all photos in the album at once. This has the added bonus that I can use "Album name with umber" as a file naming option.

And I agree with you - naming the app "photos" the same as the media has not been one of the better ideas of Apple. I has been fine for the iLive apps, while the apps had the prefix "i" to the name - iPhoto, iMovie, iTunes, but without it, it is a mess, an unnecessary complication. Not only searching for Photos in the web is now difficult, but it is even worse writing or talking about Photos. In English we can tell by the upper case letter "P" if the text is about the app or a photo, but not so in other languages, where every noun is spelled with an uppercase letter, for example in German. Fotos (the media) and Fotos (the app) are written the same.

léonie wrote: … In English we can tell by the upper case letter "P" if the text is about the app or a photo, but not so in other languages, where every noun is spelled with an uppercase letter, for example in German. Fotos (the media) and Fotos (the app) are written the same.

This has been so silly! In System Settings "Text Replacements," I have all the ways I misspell PHtos, photos, Phtoos, and so on, automatically replaced by Photos, with a capital P. That means it's a real pain to type "photos." (It took awhile to type those misspellings above so they don't all turn into Photos!) So I'm forced to use every possible synonym: pictures images, photographs, snapshots, etc, to talk about photos in posts, here.

Again, in Google I use "Mac Photos Text Replacements," for instance, rather than Photos Text Replacements.