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Amazon Revamps iPhone Photos App with Curated Memories

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Amazon has refreshed its Photos app for iPhone, targeting Prime members with a more intuitive experience. Opening the app now launches a carousel of memories instead of a flat photo grid, showcasing events like beach weekends or birthdays. The design pushes highlighted moments to the front, letting users tap a collection and watch it play in full‑screen flow today.

A standout feature is the On This Day tab, now prominently displayed at the bottom. It pulls photographs and videos from the same calendar date in previous years, allowing quick nostalgia without manual searching. The carousel also surfaces these memories automatically, saving users from digging through years of uploads today.

Search has been overhauled to accept natural‑language queries, letting users describe an image or its capture time to find it instantly. This aligns with Amazon’s push to make cloud storage a seamless part of everyday life for Prime subscribers, who already enjoy unlimited photo storage and 5 GB of video space today.

Storage tiers for extra video remain competitive: 50 GB for $0.99/month, 100 GB for $1.99/month, 1 TB for $6.99/month, and 2 TB for $11.99/month. The iOS rollout comes first, with an Android version slated for later. For Prime users, the redesigned app turns passive storage into an active storytelling tool today.