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Perhaps Apple is assuming people new to Macs wont miss what theyve never had.

This was a big loss for those of us who have to quickly create slideshows from a large number of photos for a party or school event.

Often well have several photos of the same subject taken about the same time.

If you play back the photos in the order they were shot, parts of the slideshow seem repetitive.

By shuffling the order of the photos, you can make the slideshow more interesting without spending time sifting through the whole album to find the best ones.

Hopefully Apple will reintroduce that feature back into the Photos app sometime soon.

Until then, heres a quick way to randomly play back a collection of photos in your Photos library.

Use the screen saver If you dont have iPhoto installed on your Mac, the only way to shuffle the photos in a slideshow is to use the built-in screen saver.

Its not as full-featured as iPhoto as you lose the ability to control the slide time, transitions, titles and so on.

However, if you need that kind of control in creating your slideshow, you can use iMovie instead.

Select the Screen Saver tab and then choose from one of the photo-related screen savers like Ken Burns or Classic.

Use the Source menu to choose a set of images in Photos (e.g.

If you dont see Photo Library at the bottom of the Source menu, you need change your Photos preferences to use the Photos library as the system photo library.

Make sure that youre in the General tab, and click the Use as System Photo Library button.

Go back to the Screen Saver preferences and click on the Source menu.

At the bottom of the menu you should see the Photo Library item.

Click on it. Now you will see all the collections from your Photos library.

Background music The screen saver slideshow doesnt have any options to play music, but you can make up for that by with iTunes.

Before starting the screen saver, launch iTunes and start playing one of your playlists.

Limitations This method isnt perfectthe screen saver doesnt give you much control.

Slide App How To The Length

Nor can you fit the slideshow to the length of a song or playlist.

For quickly creating a random slideshow, though, this is the easiest (and cheapest) option available.

If you have any other tips and tricks, let us know in the comments.

Comments Kelly Smith says April 17, 2016 at 10:22 am I also have been very frustrated that Apple took out this feature on Photos.

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