Select 'Gallery.' or select the far right icon that has a box with a line below it-that is Gallery mode. It may also look like this, if your Finder window is large enough to have space on the top bar: Click on this icon on the top bar of a Finder window: There is also a view in Finder called 'Gallery' that allows quick review of images. Oh, and videos start to play, so you can even preview them in Quick View. To delete, on the top bar click 'File' then 'Move to Trash.' There are even some simple editing tools in Quick View. Only images open as an image, but text files open as text, Word documents in a preview mode. You can use the up/down arrow keys to select the previous/next item. But the things you describe are available in Finder. The OP is probably happy with whatever solution that resulted. I'm guessing some OS changes are behind the experience differences.)Ĭlick to expand.You brought up a two year old thread. It is indeed much better! It looks like the developer recommends sticking to EV2 for Catalina and earlier, EV 3 for Big Sur and beyond. (EDIT: I decided to pull the trigger on EdgeView 3. EdgeView 3 may well be better in this regard, but no free trial or other indication that it's improved makes me hesitant to get that. I'm used to something more instantaneous. My only beef with it is that there's a lag between deleting an image and when the app reflects that. What I have found most comparable to my liking is EdgeView 2, on the App Store. It has had some weird issues since at least Big Sur, maybe Catalina, that have gone unaddressed. MacPaw bought it out from the original developer several years ago, but I guess they are too busy hawking CleanMyMac to pay it any attention. I previously mentioned Xee, but the developer has largely abandoned it.

The only downside to it is that if you have a lot of larger images, it's very slow to move through them. NSMacGuru's trick to activate the QuickView feature with the spacebar is a nice one that I only recently stumbled into myself (it had never occurred to me to use it to page through multiple files, not just use it for the one in focus).

Photo viewer for mac