Photos update causes hidden photos to appear in screensaver slideshow

In Photos.app the only place pics are hidden is in Moments view. That's because that's the only place you must have a photo.

Make an album without the hidden images and use that for your screensaver.

There's no justification - this is a BUG.

Hidden photos not only appear in screensaver slideshows, but also in Albums and in iPhoto Events. The only place they are truly hidden is in Moments. This is incorrect behavior. Hidden means hidden, unless you Show Hidden Photo Album or turn on hidden photos under View, which you can't even do any longer in Photos which you could do in iPhoto. Having hidden photos appear in Albums, Events, and Slideshows can lead to quite embarrassing or confusing results. People hide photos for various reasons and to have them appear without explicitly turning on the viewing of hidden photos is really bad behavior.

This needs to be fixed.

then you need to report to Apple - no one here can fix anything - we are all users just like yourself and can only tell you how things actually work

LN

A bug (and who needs block capitals?) is when the software acts in a different way than the developers intended. Hardly seems to be the case here. Let the developers know about your embarrassments

http://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html is the place for feature requests and feedback

How do you know what the intention was, and how it "hardly seems to be the case here"?

So you're saying it was intended to show photos marked as "hidden" in albums, slideshows, and events? If so, what's the point of having specifying photos as hidden when they're clearly not being hidden very well at all?

This is not how it worked in iPhoto - hidden meant hidden from any photo display, unless you specified Show Hidden Photos in View. To intentionally change the behavior indicates the designers felt that this was a better way. I can't see how freely displaying hidden photos is an improvement, can you?

Already provided feedback.

I don;t know that the intentions was, but it does seem coherent. You can hide a photo in the only place where you have no choice but to have a photo. You can choose to remove a photo from an Album, so no need to hide it there. But you know, whatever. Feedback is the route to go.

Given that 'Moments' is a bizarre photo album not controlled by the user, this is not particularly helpful advice.

People create albums or collections of photos for various reasons. I, for example, in this digital age, often 'snap' invoices, receipts, booking confirmations and other legal documents when travellling. I don't want them 'popping up' via iCloud... or anywhere else unless I need them.

This BUG needs to be urgently fixed...

Agreed.

It's not an improvement. It's arrogant lack of caring for loyal customers.

This is not the only design flaw with Photos, another being that the program is now basically incompatible with the original Apple TV (with hard drive). I guess Apple doesn't want us using it any more, so it makes it almost impossible to operate. Grrr...

Quit complaining. We can't do anything about it here so tell someone who can. Tell Apple what missing features you'd like restored in Photos via https://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html.

I'm sorry, but when complaints are justified, as they are in this case, telling a poster to "quit complaining" is just rude. I concur with the OP that this is a rather pointless loss of functionality. While this isn't an official channel for bug reports, we all know that Apple engineers visit the boards.

There's nothing wrong with complaining about a change when it's as poorly thought out as this is.

Not according to the Apple Support Community Terms of Use paragraph 2.3:

Post constructive comments and questions. Unless otherwise noted, your Submission should either be a technical support question or a technical support answer. Constructive feedback about product features is welcome as well. If your Submission contains the phrase "I'm sorry for the rant, but…" you are likely in violation of this policy.

As you've been told before complaints should be made here: \https://www.apple.com/feedback/