PhotoFrame - turn an old iPad into a gorgeous digital photo frame
by ErikBauch
Set up a small SwiftUI app that turns a spare iPad into a dedicated, always-on digital photo frame. This runs on a 2014 iPad Air and plays a continuous slideshow with gentle pan/zoom, auto-dims dark at night and wakes in the morning. It stays in sync as photos are added from anyone's phone to a shared Apple Photos album, and resumes after a reboot. When new photos or videos are added, they just show up in the slide. This works 10x better than our $150 Skylight, which started crashing, and the iPad's screens are gorgeous. It's given us a lot of joy well beyond expectations. Simple yet effective AI project. Built by ErikBauch. Code: https://github.com/ebauch/ipad-photo-frame See more demos: https://appmunchies.com/v/70568a65-6eb4-4580-8675-0b441b9d15fb @appmunchies — where people show the world what they built with AI. #photodisplay #digitalframe #slideshow #swiftui
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Take this repo: https://github.com/ebauch/ipad-photo-frame and rebuild "PhotoFrame - turn an old iPad into a gorgeous digital photo frame" for my platform. It was originally built for iOS 16. Here's what it does: Set up a small SwiftUI app that turns a spare iPad into a dedicated, always-on digital photo frame. This runs on a 2014 iPad Air and plays a continuous slideshow with gentle pan/zoom, auto-dims dark at night and wakes in the morning. It stays in sync as photos are added from anyone's phone to a shared Apple Photos album, and resumes after a reboot. When new photos or videos are added, they just show up in the slide. This works 10x better than our $150 Skylight, which started crashing, and the iPad's screens are gorgeous. It's given us a lot of joy well beyond expectations. Simple yet effective AI project. Built by ErikBauch. Code: https://github.com/ebauch/ipad-photo-frame See more demos: https://appmunchies.com/v/70568a65-6eb4-4580-8675-0b441b9d15fb @appmunchies — where people show the world what they built with AI. #photodisplay #digitalframe #slideshow #swiftui