Voice notes
Tap the mic on any photo or video and talk: what they were saying, who was in the room. It plays back right on the photo.
Coming soon to iPhone
Your child’s world, gathered for you.
Our Little World finds your child’s photos and videos in Apple Photos and brings them together in one private place on your iPhone. Their best photos, their smiles, a face for every month of their life.
- Organized on your iPhone
- Nothing shared unless you share it
- Face data never leaves the phone
How it works
You give it a name and a birthday. It does the looking.
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Connect Apple Photos
The app reads your library on your iPhone. Your photos aren’t uploaded to be sorted.
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Add your child
Their name and birthday tell the app where to start looking. Add brothers and sisters the same way.
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Confirm their face, a month at a time
It shows you a few faces from each month and you say which ones are them. Babies change fast, so it follows them month by month.
Then it gathers them into their own world.
- Best Photos
- The strongest pictures from each stretch of their life, so you aren’t scrolling to find them.
- Best Memories
- Photos and videos together, one a day, spread across their life so far.
- Smiles
- Photos where they’re smiling.
- Laughs
- Clips with laughter in them, each starting just before the laugh.
- By age
- Newborn, three months, one year. Jump to any age and see what it looked like.
- Your days
- Each day you took pictures of them, in the order you lived it.
Photos it isn’t sure about are marked Likely until you confirm them.
Month by month
One face for every month of their life.
Month by month puts your child’s face from each month side by side. Drag across the months, or press play and watch them grow.
Every face is one you confirmed, from that month. A month you haven’t confirmed stays empty until you do.
Tonight
A few minutes of their day, every evening.
Each evening Tonight gathers a short set of moments: today, this week, this day in months past, and a few from the beginning. Watch it together on the couch, or with the kids in Family mode, which plays by itself.
- Ready at the time you pick: 7:30, 8 or 9 in the evening.
- Add a line or a voice note to any moment as it plays.
- On a quiet day it says so, and offers one moment you haven’t seen in a while.
- No streaks and no counts. A reminder only if you ask for one.
In your words
Add what a photo can’t hold.
All of this is optional. You can just look.
Letters
Write to your child from any photo. Seal it until a birthday or a day you choose, and it stays closed until then.
Firsts
Mark a first from the photo it happened in, with the date and their age. The app never marks one for you.
Private
It stays on your iPhone.
Our Little World sorts your photos on the phone in your hand. They aren’t uploaded to be organized, and there’s no audience to perform for.
- Organized on the device. Faces, smiles and laughter are recognized on your iPhone.
- Face data never leaves the phone. It isn’t uploaded, shared or put in exports.
- Nothing is uploaded unless you share it. The app doesn’t upload your photos, words, voice notes, letters or Firsts on its own.
- Your originals stay in Photos. The app reads your library. It doesn’t change or delete anything in it.
- No feed, no followers, no ads.
Family
Share a moment with your partner when you choose to.
Some moments belong to both of you. Share one from the photo and it goes to your family’s private archive, where only the parents in your family can see it.
- You see exactly what will be sent before you send it.
- Your words and voice note go with it only if you switch them on.
- Photos are sent without their location or other hidden details.
- A family link opens the moment in the app. In a browser it shows nothing.
Sharing is what the Family plan is for.
Questions
Before you start
Does it upload my camera roll?
No. It organizes your library on your iPhone. Only a moment you choose to share goes to your family’s archive.
How does it know which photos are my child?
Their birthday tells it where to start, and you confirm their face from a few photos each month. It doesn’t decide who your child is on its own.
Does it change anything in Photos?
No. Your originals stay where they are, and taking a photo out of a collection never deletes it.
What if I get a new phone?
Your photos stay in Apple Photos as they always have. What you add in the app stays on your iPhone and isn’t part of iCloud Backup. Export everything saves your words, voice notes, letters and Firsts as files you can keep.
When can I get it?
It isn’t on the App Store yet. Join the launch list and we’ll email you when it is.
What does it cost?
The Family plan, for sharing with your family, is planned at $7.99 a month or $69.99 a year. Purchases aren’t open yet. See pricing
App availability
Coming soon to iPhone
Our Little World isn’t on the App Store yet.