Frame Photos

What’s new in Frame Photos

The newest Frame Photos updates bring the app to the Mac as a full desktop app, add support for portrait-mounted Frames, introduce Party Mode for rotating photos across every Frame in the house, and sync your albums and edits across iPhone, iPad, and Mac through your own iCloud, on top of the launch release that made uploads work on every Frame model year from 2017 through 2026.

Latest: summer 2026

Frame Photos comes to the Mac, and your albums follow you

This wave of updates is about using Frame Photos everywhere: on a real Mac desktop app, on portrait-mounted Frames, across every Frame in the house at once, and across all your Apple devices through your own iCloud.

  • A real Mac desktop appFrame Photos now runs on your Mac as a proper desktop app: drag photos straight from Finder, upload with File ▸ Upload Photos (⌘O), and work in a roomy sidebar-and-inspector layout instead of a stretched phone screen.
  • Portrait-mounted Frame supportIf your Frame hangs vertically, uploads now rotate upright automatically, with portrait-aware mattes and crops, and a warning before you send a photo in the wrong orientation. Works on every Frame generation.
  • Party ModeRotate photos across every selected Frame in the house simultaneously. Each TV keeps its own live status while sharing one interval, so the whole home changes pictures together during a party or family visit.
  • Frame Cloud sync through your own iCloudAlbums, matte and crop edits, collage layouts, and your saved TVs now sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Edit a matte on your phone and the change shows up on your iPad, no separate account to create.
  • The app speaks your languageComplete Dutch, German, Spanish, and French translations across the whole app, alongside English.

Also in these updates: sleeping 2017 and 2019 Frames are found reliably during discovery, and the crop editor was rebuilt with true 16:9 crops and a faithful preview of what the TV will show.

May 28, 2026

The launch release: every Frame year, 2017 through 2026

The 1.0 launch closed the biggest gap in the Frame app world: uploads to the original 2017 Frame, long believed impossible for third-party apps, plus the creative tools the app is known for today.

  • Uploads on the original 2017 FrameA breakthrough in the upload format proved the 2017 Frame accepts photos after all. With it, Frame Photos covers every tested model year from 2017 through 2026, including the legacy 2017–2021 art interface.
  • Collages from 13 templatesCombine several photos into one artwork: 13 templates across 5 categories, with gap, shadow, and matte controls plus per-photo zoom and pan, rendered at 4K for the TV.
  • Fast SlideshowAn app-driven slideshow that changes photos as often as every 15 seconds, far quicker than the TV’s own minimum, up to a relaxed 3 minutes per photo.
  • Multi-TV managementSave every Frame in the house, see which are online, wake sleeping TVs over the network, and use the built-in remote, all without leaving the app.
  • Museum art as a bonusBrowse, search, and favorite artworks from the Met and the Rijksmuseum, then send them to your Frame alongside your own photos.

Also in 1.0: upload from any app via the iOS share sheet, smart matte suggestions based on your photo’s colors, and an Easy Mode home screen for less technical family members.

April 2026 and earlier

The foundation

  • Finds your Frame on your home WiFi and connects directly, no Samsung account
  • Photo upload with automatic HEIC, JPEG, and PNG conversion and resizing
  • The full matte editor: 16 real Samsung matte colors and 6 mount styles
  • Batch uploads with progress tracking and duplicate detection
  • Albums with per-TV slideshow configuration

What’s next

One firm promise: the Android phone and tablet app is coming to Google Play. Everything else here is a trend, not a pledge. recent releases have leaned consistently into cross-device sync, Mac desktop polish, and reliability work on the oldest 2017–2021 Frames, and that is where the ongoing work continues.

Frame Photos is built by one indie developer, Siebrand Dijkstra, who owns a Frame himself. Updates ship when they work on his wall first. If you want to influence what comes next, the support page is read by the person who writes the code.

Your Frame TV Is Ready For Your Photos

Free to try on your own Frame. Your first uploads are on us.

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Siebrand Dijkstra, maker of Frame Photos

“I bought The Frame to put my own photos on the wall, and the apps I tried made that harder than it should be. So I built Frame Photos for myself first. If it works on my wall, I want it to work on yours.”Siebrand Dijkstra, Maker of Frame Photos