Date of when photos were downloaded is now almost invisible!

Feel free to submit your opinions to Apple. Your opinions are yours alone so don't assume everyone agrees with you. I surely don’t agree with you at all.

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AnnaEscondido wrote:

So I downloaded Tahoe 26.2 the other day and I hate it with a passion. That stupid tropical water scene is amateurish

You can turn off FileVault and you will not have to see the "stupid tropical water scene"

Tahoe flipped it on by default.

Perhaps a screenshot would help illustrate your problem.

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Personally, I never see the date overlaid on a photo in the Photos app. In any view, I can use Get Info to see a date:

In Month view, the day is easily visible (though only a key photo is shown in that view):

In an album, again no date on the images:

All of that leads me to suspect you have a 3rd party app/extension that is showing the date on your images in the Photos app. I see frequent reference to PowerPhotos being used for that, for example:

In Photos how do I shown the date/time? - Apple Community

If you are using a 3rd party app/plugin/extension with Photos, contact the developer of that app regarding the issue, it is the 3rd party developer's responsibility to ensure compatibility with macOS upgrades/updates, not Apple's.

That helps, thanks. I see what you mean in the Utilities > Imports display:

The above is Light theme (System Settings > Appearance), IMO it's a little better in Dark (which is my usual setting):

Changing System Settings > Accessibility > Display to Increase Contrast and setting the display contrast slider to maximum helps the most (but I'm not a fan of that, personally).

As lkrupp suggested in the first reply to your post, submit feedback to Apple, only they can change that. Here's the direct link for Photos feedback:

Feedback - Photos - Apple

Having said that, you might consider the PowerPhotos app as an alternative, since that seemingly can show the dates right on the thumbnails.

Ha, thanks leroydouglas. In my Imports view screenshots before, the Photos app was NOT active (but thanks to macOS, you can scroll down through the images with the app not in front). With the app active, the text is evident.

A larger, more visible date where? In what context are you scrolling through your thousands of photos? The Photos app? Finder? IG in a browser window? Something else?

Perhaps a screenshot would help illustrate your problem...

I guess I still don't see it...

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