MacBook photo editing options now preselected

editing photos on macbook has changed from showing a list of options ie brightness contrast black and shadow ect to where now they have changed to preselected

Posted on Feb 8, 2026 1:14 AM

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Feb 8, 2026 8:19 AM in response to cestrian161

cestrian161wroge: editing photos on macbook has changed from showing a list of options ie brightness contrast black and shadow ect to where now they have changed to preselected

I'm not seeing that. In Photos, my editing window looks like this:

Nothing is pre-selected. I can choose that auto-enhancement tool to have Photos adjust the image to it's own tastes, but that is not turned on when I ender Edit Mode.


Can you give us more details?

  • What model is your Mac?
  • What macOS does it use?
  • Where does your Mac's Photos Library reside-- in the Pictures folder of your internal drive, or on an external drive? or on a network? on iCloud drive?
  • Are you using iCloud Photos to synchronize your devices? If so
  • …Do you have “Optimize Storage” checked in Photos’ Settings
  • …Do you have more than 10% free storage on your iCloud account?
  • What is your storage on this Mac? At System Settings>General> Storage, my Mac says 745 GB of 1TBB used. What does yours say? Is your  free storage on your Mac less than 10%?
  • Did this just start? Can you think of anything that changed that might affect your device?


It might help to include a screenshot (like I did) to show us what you mean.

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MacBook photo editing options now preselected

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