"On This Day" Feature for mac Photos, does it exist?

There is no such feature in Photos

You could do it using a smart album

LN

In the Photos/Moments window photos are sorted and grouped by date taken.

Only as to photos - yes - make a smart album for date is [desired date] and the photos for that date will be in it - edit the date to see a different date

LN

Create one smart album and set the date. Duplicate that album and edit the date setting. Duplicate again and edit again. That would be much quicker than trying to figure out how to do it with automator or Applescript.

My bad. I didn't realize you wanted a smart album for the same day in all years. That is a bit more daunting. Someone who is proficient in Applescripting might be able to find all images with a specific day only. I'll ask one user who's good at that to drop in and see if she can help.

Try this script: But try it on a test library, I have not done much testing: The current version will find all photos taken on the same month and day as the current date. Today it will show all photos taken on an 8th of March.

-- find all photos taken on a certain day, for example the day and month of the current date.

-- the resulting photos will be added to a toplevel album named "On day month".

set thisday to the day of (the (current date) as date) --change this to the day you want, for example "25"

set thismonth to the month of (the (current date) as date) --change this to the month you want, for example "december"

set thisDayAlbum to "On " & thismonth & " " & thisday as string

tell application "Photos"

try

if existscontainerthisDayAlbum then

set thePhotosBuffer to containerthisDayAlbum

else

makealbumnamedthisDayAlbum

end if

on error errTexttwonumbererrNumtwo

display dialog "Cannot open album: " & thisDayAlbum & " " & errNumtwo & return & errTexttwo

return

end try

set onthisdayFound to {}

set onthisdaySkipped to {}

set allTheItems to every media item-- get a list of all photos and videos, may take a while

-- add all photos taken this day to the album

repeat with i from 1 to the count of allTheItems

-- check the dates of all photos and videos

set thisMediaItem to itemi of allTheItems

try

set date_i to the date of thisMediaItem

set day_i to the day of (date_i as date)

set month_i to the month of (date_i as date)

if ((day_i = thisday) and (month_i = thismonth)) then

set end of onthisdayFound to thisMediaItem

add {thisMediaItem} tocontainerthisDayAlbum

end if

on error errTexttwonumbererrNumtwo

set end of onthisdaySkipped to thisMediaItem

end try

end repeat

end tell

set theresultmessage to "Found " & (the count of onthisdayFound) & " items and added them to the album " & thisDayAlbum & ".

Skipped " & (the count of onthisdaySkipped) & " items without date"

display dialogtheresultmessage

To find all photos taken on some arbitrary day, for example Christmas Eve, change the first two line to

set thisday to 24--change this to the day you want, for example "24"

set thismonth to 12--change this to the month you want, for example 12 for December

Does the unmodified version of the script with (the (current date) as date) work?

Which date is shown in the Info panel of the three photos you found in the smart album?