Album mode gets cell-based editing
6 Jul 2026
Album mode now works the way a notebook does: each photo, or a small group of photos, lives in its own cell. Reorder a cell, edit its caption, or apply an adjustment, and only that cell re-runs — the rest of the album stays exactly as it was.
This matters most for large albums. Previously, reordering fifty photos meant reordering fifty photos one at a time in a flat list. Now you can select a run of cells and move them as a block, the same way you'd move a range of cells in a spreadsheet or notebook.
Captions and tags are attached at the cell level too, so a group caption applies to everything in that group without repeating it on every individual photo. If you later split the group apart, each photo keeps the caption it inherited, which you can then edit independently.
Under the hood, this is the same execution model used by notebook tools like JupyterLab — cells run independently, in the order you choose, and only recompute what actually changed. It turns out that model fits photo albums just as naturally as it fits code.