How are "Moments" defined in Photos for Mac?

Having used the "Photos" album view (top left) to label descriptions and locations, I can see the benefits of this view.

Is this the same as "Moments" in iOS? It certainly seems to have the same purpose.

Also, what are the parameters to define the "moments" on my Mac? It seems to group photos by time and/or location but I can't work out exactly what rules it is applying (and this becomes relevant where I might want to group photos together)

Thank you

MacBook Pro with Retina display, macOS Sierra (10.12), + iPhone 6 Plus & iPad Air 2

Posted on Oct 6, 2016 1:20 AM

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Jerry Dammers Author

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Oct 6, 2016 6:54 AM in response to LarryHN

Yes, that's the point of my post. To ask if anybody knows what the rules might be, or can guess them from their experiences (as I am unable to from mine).

tikilab

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Oct 6, 2016 6:02 PM in response to Jerry Dammers

Sorry, ignore this post. Can't delete it.

léonie

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Oct 7, 2016 5:18 AM in response to Jerry Dammers

Do you have "Summarize Photos" enabled in the Photos Preferences > General?

This will display less photos in the Moments, and the gps may appear larger.

léonie

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Oct 7, 2016 6:36 AM in response to Jerry Dammers

and the gps may appear larger.

I meant to write "the gaps may appear larger.", sorry.

I am continually loosing the battle against the spell checker on my iPad.

Jerry Dammers Author

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Oct 16, 2016 2:22 AM in response to Jerry Dammers

Having played around with amending the time of photos, it looks like a new moment is created if there is a time gap of more than 5 hours

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How are "Moments" defined in Photos for Mac?