macOS Preview Forces Selecting All Files Before Browsing an Image Folder Sequentially
Users who open a single image in Finder find that macOS Preview won't let them browse through the rest of that folder's images unless they first select every file. This forces an extra manual step for a task users expect to be effortless: quickly flipping through photos in a directory.
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