What is the difference between Photos and All Photos

My question was about the similarity of names for a human reader. "Photos" and "All Photos" are very similar names.

"All Photos" is fully clear, when on the other hand the meaning of "Photos" which any human reader will read as "some Photos" is fully ambigous.

I am convinced that the core of the problem is coming of this much too similar names of functions

when one of them stays with an ambiguous name.

I made a blind test among some of my advanced users of Photos, and none of them was able to tell me what is the use of the Photos. Moreover they weren't able to tell if it is a folder, the total library or another advanced function. In fact they never used it.

I get the exact same number of "objects" with this smart album than there are in my "Photos" album(?). But the "All Photos" album(?) is still one object(?) bigger (out of 1000). I must admit that this is really a tiny discrepency and I will survive with it as long as it doesn't grow :). Thank you for your appreciated technically advanced reply.

TOTALLY AGREE. I had so many photos organized into events, etc. etc. Drop downs on each pix, and now that appears to be gone. I am just now starting to put new photos into a useable arrangement and am struggling. It was SOOOO nice before.

Leonie - Thank you so much for your helpful, courteous reply.

LarryHN - Thanks for nothing.

You're welcome.

We are a community, and all of us are contributing.

I'm glad it worked 🙂 You're welcome.

4 - added a nice apology 🙂

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The repair worked perfectly! Whew! Thank you!

Cocoplum201 wrote:

my wish is for photos bring back the features use to work fine on iPhotos,

And exactly what features are those?

LN

The very similar names for Photos and All Photos are really a bit unfortunate and not intuitive.

But I like the functionality of both views of the library and use both of them a lot.