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  1. Why are images reduced in size when dragg… - Apple Community

    Apr 21, 2024 · The reason is that when you drag from the Photos window to the desktop what you get is the Photos preview of the image. This is a compressed good-enough-for-most-things …

  2. Stop Apple Photos from Downrezing images? - MacRumors Forums

    Jun 30, 2023 · Apple photos has a nasty habit of downsampling images if you use drag and drop. It doesn't warn you, it just does it. I can see how this would be a useful option for things like …

  3. 3 Ways to Make iPhone Pictures a Smaller File Size

    Sep 21, 2025 · Because I never seem to have enough iCloud storage, I learned how to reduce the file size of photos on my iPhone. Here’s how you can keep your photos small and your storage …

  4. How to Use Drag & Drop in Photos: An Apple Guide

    Oct 7, 2025 · But if you use drag-and-drop, the image might be compressed further, sometimes resulting in smaller, lower-quality images, or different file sizes than expected.

  5. Can I force a drag from Photos into anoth… - Apple Community

    Jan 5, 2023 · Can I force a drag from Photos into another app to do so at full resolution? I have been trying to work out if dragging and dropping a photo from Photos into another app (or the …

  6. How to reduce the size of a photo - Apple Community

    Feb 4, 2021 · Photos supports the loss less workflow and will always preserve the original image file in the original quality. If you need a smaller image file, you create it by exporting the image …

  7. Apple Photos Drag & Drop Scrolling Too Fa… - Apple Community

    Nov 10, 2024 · When I create a new album and try to drag it where it belongs alphabetically, the album list scrolls almost instantly to the top or bottom of the left-hand bar no matter how …

  8. Export at full quality when dragging and … - Apple Community

    Jan 21, 2023 · When I drag and drop, a notification comes up saying "Photo Exported with Lower Image Quality - export to disk to maintain full image quality". It's much faster to drag and drop …

  9. Dragged photo size reductions? - Apple Community

    May 12, 2015 · Dragged photo size reductions? I have been trying to get around the failure to permit location tagging in Photos by moving recent uploads into iPhoto to tag and move back. …

  10. Top 10 Mac Apps to Resize Photos - BatchPhoto

    Oct 10, 2024 · If you want to learn how to resize images on Mac with ease, then this article is definitely for you. Below we’ve compiled a list of 10 apps that enable you to accomplish your …