Motion Desktop 1.3 released!
| Version 1.3 – October 15, 2026 | |
| Requirements This version requires macOS 13 (Ventura) or later. | |
| New Feature: | Add photos, videos, and live albums from Apple Photos to the playback queue. |
| New Feature: | Keep selected Media Archive items and collections available offline, protected from automatic cache cleanup. |
| Enhancement: | Shuffle albums, shuffle within albums, or mix all media without repeats until a cycle finishes. |
| Enhancement: | Random Zoom & Pan automatically chooses gentle movement and zoom levels for each picture and its display duration. Newly added media plays once unless another default is selected in Settings. |
| Bug Fix: | Improved live-folder updates, queue position tracking, importing, scene transitions, and download-cache recovery. |
| Bug Fix: | Kept offline media remains playable across saved queues when its archive entry is unavailable. File pickers and failed thumbnails now recover more reliably. |
| Bug Fix: | Background music keeps its last working copy during archive updates and preserves fades when the queue changes. |
| Bug Fix: | Improved Photos loading during library changes and corrected shared cache usage displays. |
| Bug Fix: | Corrected Apple Photos access in sandboxed builds and improved cancellation and loading of Photos media. |
| Enhancement: | Drag Apple Photos albums and selected media into Playback Queue. Larger album icons identify regular and Smart Albums, and the browser updates automatically. |
| Enhancement: | Made Photos browsing, searching, and live queue updates more responsive for large collections, with stable selections and cached thumbnails. |
| Enhancement: | Reduced background Photos activity and unnecessary Smart Folder work when library contents have not changed. |
| Bug Fix: | Improved detection of moved, edited, and replaced Smart Folder files, while preserving playback options and protecting newer media details from older background results. |
| Bug Fix: | Preserved queue hierarchy, previews, and thumbnails during background updates, dragging, and queue-set changes. Improved large shuffled queue transitions. |
| Bug Fix: | Explained Smart Folder access requests and prevented cancelled or unsuccessful requests from adding an unusable queue folder. |
| Bug Fix: | Improved responsiveness when large Smart Folders update or remove many items, while preserving existing contents if a search exceeds the queue limit. |
| Bug Fix: | Rebuilt Apple Photos browsing around the native main-loop lifecycle, with incremental album reads, clearer access and retry states, and linked-album updates that preserve active playback. Improved sandbox permission checks and cleanup after canceled Photos and Smart Folder imports. |
| Bug Fix: | Reduced background Media Archive cache-checking overhead and corrected automatic Photos reconnection after a library becomes unavailable. |
| Bug Fix: | Prevented stale media details from replacing information for updated downloads. |
| Bug Fix: | Corrected playback and preview updates when a Smart Folder item changes between a picture and a movie. |
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