Problems with Keyword entry in Photos App since upgrade to Catalina

I want to inform Apple that there is a bug in the use of Keywords within the Photos App on my iMAC.

Previously when you enterred a keyword and hit return or or made another selection from a drop down list of previously used keywords, the entry would turn bold from shadow and you could correctly assume that the image had been labelled with that keyword. Now, you have to place the cursor in another part of the info dialogue box and generally fiddle around before the keyword is accepted. This is now very inconvenient and slow, there has been something changed in the software that does not allow the dialogue focus to move on and accept the entry. If you are also labelling a stack of images it is easy to miss the fact that the App has not actually accepted the keyword links to several images.......any views from Apple or other users please??

iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Jun 18, 2020 10:18 AM

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Posted on Jun 18, 2020 10:40 AM

It is very clumsy now. While typing a keyword, the focus will frequently get lost. When I try to enter a keyword into the Info, the focus will be lost after the first few letters and the successive letters will be interpreted as keyboard shortcuts. Photos will open the editor, or worse, when I hit the backspace key, it will delete the photo instead of erasing the last typed character.

You may want to send a bug report using the feedback form:

https://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html


I am currently using solely the Keyword Manager and the shortcuts assigned to my keywords in the Quick Group to enter Keywords. It is safer.


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Jun 18, 2020 10:40 AM in response to JAD2014

It is very clumsy now. While typing a keyword, the focus will frequently get lost. When I try to enter a keyword into the Info, the focus will be lost after the first few letters and the successive letters will be interpreted as keyboard shortcuts. Photos will open the editor, or worse, when I hit the backspace key, it will delete the photo instead of erasing the last typed character.

You may want to send a bug report using the feedback form:

https://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html


I am currently using solely the Keyword Manager and the shortcuts assigned to my keywords in the Quick Group to enter Keywords. It is safer.


Jun 18, 2020 10:36 AM in response to léonie

Thanks Leonie, I am sort of glad it is not just me! I have also used the keyword manager in the past so may try that as a temporary solution, it just seemed a bit more complicated in that I have quite a few keywords and you have to search around the list rather than have them pop up on first few letter entry in the INFO box. Anyway, I will take up your suggestion and report this using the link you have provided......it would nice if Apple said they are aware of the issue and would fix it in a future update !!!!

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