iPhone message: “iPhoto” needs to be updated. The developer of this app needs to update it to work with this version of iOS

You *should* be able to delete it safely, but just to be safe, first do a backup of your device to iTunes or iCloud.

That way, should you lose any images for whatever reason, you have them safe in a backup.

Next, find the app, hold down your finger on the icon until you get the pop up menu that offers the option to Remove App.

You will get the options to Delete App or Remove from Home Screen. Choose Delete App.

This is where it gets scary: this threatening message pops up:

The bit about stuff stored in iCloud being safe should be reassuring. But if not that is why took the backup.

Bite the bullet and hit Delete

now open your Photos app and make sure your photos all still there. If not, restore from backups get back to where you were.

come back here and let us all know what happened

After reading the posts, I too was surprised to find the iPhoto app buried in a folder, from however many years ago. After reading the posts, I followed the guidance to delete it from the icon in the folder. All my pictures going back to 2008 remained in tact. So based on my experience it is safe to do.

And now for the comments making fun of me for having that old of pictures still on my phone…

Yeah, this is pretty sloppy on Apple’s part. As stated here - iPhoto is an old app and was replaced by Photo. I deleted iPhoto and this had no effect on my Photo app or stored photos. I’m assuming I will no longer get the dopey “delete or keep” pop-up. The comments here were helpful - thank you.

I bit the bullet and deleted the iPhoto app - all photos (and some of mine go back to 2000!) in Photos are just fine and intact.

I deleted the iPhoto app without any loss of photos. At all!

Omg I’m sooo glad I found this post. I’ve been ignoring that window for sometime and didn’t quite know what it was talking about. I deleted iPhoto just now and everything is still intact on Photos. So yay! Thanks guys!

I also have photos dating back to 2008. I just don’t know where to put them or what to do with them. ::clueless::

iPhoto was a digital photograph manipulation software

application developed by Apple Inc. It was included with every Macintosh

personal computer from 2002 to 2015, when it was replaced with Apple's

Photos application.

This is exactly what I have felt every time this has popped up. I keep just hitting “keep” thinking it must be some kind of virus. It’s presented in a very “un-Apple” way…making it seem suspicious as ****!

I’m sure this is likely due to the fact that I have had iPhone after iPhone for the last 14 years…can’t recall the last time I started fresh, I always pull in my old data and pictures from my last phone-clearly that has included iPhoto unknowingly

Seeing someone who clicked “delete” and didn’t lose their photos above is reassuring though. Next time I see it, I will just do the same thing.

I don’t have all of my photos on iCloud though, need to upgrade my plan because I upgraded my MBP and had to lose HD space with SSD sizes. Can’t even fit a phone backup on my laptop anymore!

A little nervous that I might lose some pics, but I’m sure they’re scattered somewhere on external drives from over the years. Haha. If I lose some saved memes from 2014, so be it I guess…

I updated to iOS 14.6 yesterday. Today, upon opening a third party app (The Weather Channel app) I received the same message as the OP. I too am aware that Apple Photos replaced Apple iPhoto several years ago. However, when I searched my phone, the iPhoto app is still present. It is not a third party app and it is copyrighted by Apple.

The issue is valid and does not deserve a pompous community response.

I think the bigger question is why Apple, who makes iPhoto, refers themselves as ‘The developer of this app…” and has never used this kind of update message before.

Both of which immediately made me feel like this was a virus or some malicious/ bad actor that somehow infected my iPhone.

Plus, the two choices are ambiguous and fraught with serious implications that are not explained. Delete? No, not unless I know more. Keep! Keep what? It is not clear.

Apple, if this is you, please put out some kind of notice to explain wtf?

Jobs is rolling over in his grave now about this particular end user experience.

I found this thread because I had the same worries with that pop-up message. I’m going to press delete after continuing to press Keep as I had no idea what it was referring to. What an ominous and badly worded message!

This response is “Apple recommended.” Take a moment, verify that it carries the label, and let that sink in. It provides a brief history of the iPhoto and Photos applications. I’ll leave it to the reader to determine the value of the distinction, particularly as it’s presented. The response does nothing to address questions and concerns of what a large, if not very large, if not majority of iOS users are asking themselves. Many of those users, including me, came here to avail ourselves of expertise within these fora. Dilbert41’s does not answer the OP’s question, has been rated “Helpful” by exactly no one, and yet received Cupertino’s recommendation. So, instead of advising users to wait for a statement from Apple or, more likely, a “fix” to what is in all likelihood an unintended message in 14.6 (especially with 15 hot on its heels), an Apple mod endorsed this non-response. I’m all-in with Apple and have been for decades. When their product works, it’s phenomenal. In these rare cases when it doesn’t work—and to be clear, it isn’t working—it unfortunately exposes the user-hostile underbelly of Apple’s customer service. That notification is not a “feature.” Why would Apple bide its time for 6 years? Now we’re given the alternative to keep or remove iPhoto, while a cryptic message indicates that “the developer of this app needs to update it to work with this version of iOS” i.e., Apple needs to update it to work with Apple’s OS.

IPhoto is a “third party app” now? Since when? Written by Apple, published by Apple, copyrighted by Apple, supplied by Apple with several generations of its smartphones & computers. Are old Macs & iPhones “third party devices” too all of a sudden? Kindly explain. Or better still, delete.

Warning: If you happen to upload to Google Photos or any other third-party Apps then your original resolution of the photos may be lost.

As far as my knowledge goes Google Photos will allow upload with higher resolution only when you subscribe for their storage space.

Kindly check with Google, before taking any deletion action.