Q: New Photos software has doubled the storage on my iMac, maxed out my storage on my iPhone 5, takes FOREVER and a DAY to download and play a 3 sec video, I wait too long if I choose to edit a photo. My questions are below.

Am I the only one to have these issues?

For some reason my photo list now has many duplicate's which take up extra memory on both my iPhone and iMac.

All of these issues results in my battery use time in my iPhone being drastIcally reduced.

I have two iPhones, one is the iPhone 5 and the other being an iPhone 4s and both have 16GB of memory. Both have identical issues with Photo. Why are all of my 400+ photo events on my iPhones and even on my iPad Air. It took 51 seconds to watch a 6 second video download and play on my iPhone 4s and on my iPhone 5, and instantly play on my iPad Air with 128 GB. Obviously the functionality of the device depends on the availability of memory. But programs that need so much memory to function, as intended, should check the device for sufficient memory before forcing itself into the device and thus causing the device to come to an operating standstill. If apps can't operate what good is it. I began deleting apps that I use regularly hoping I can stop this runaway monster. I started seeing extremely strange information on my Contacts, iCal, and health apps I rely on, on a daily basis. I tried turning my iPhones completely off and restarting again and this helped only for a short period of time before the new "Photo" program began ingesting available memory.

I take a lot of pictures and when my Camera quits I get very concerned.

What are my options so that I can get my iPhones back to a usable state?

Personally I don't find any use for this program with the type of use I need. If I want to see thousands of my photos from the last 50 years (took about 20 reels of my Kodak slides to Costco and had them digitized on to a cd, took the reels home, dumped them out and refilled the reels with more slides, back to Costco, and repeat the process)

iPhoto worked just great and that is what I paid for.  To write a new program and give it the name of a current good operating program borders on "Bait and Switch".