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I’ve also created an account specifically to request this — point #3 from the OP’s request. I use Pixelmator Photo on iPad and love the UI, but Affinity Photo is more powerful. I wish I could use it the same way: open the app, see my Apple Photos photo library just like it appears within the native Photos app, select an image and edit it, and the changes get saved back to Apple Photos and are now part of my photo library on all my devices. For me, Apple Photos is the central library managing storage, sync, metadata, face recognition of family members, etc — and other apps are editing helpers when the native Apple Photos editing tools like contrast etc aren’t enough. I’m not a casual user, I have several tens of thousands of images and I’m quite happy using Apple Photos as my catalog and using other apps as helpers for editing, retouching etc. I do fairly advanced work with portraits and wildlife photography in particular. On the mac, Affinity works brilliantly via external edit sessions, but on iPad, it just ends up being an app I don’t use, due to the lack of seamless integration with the Apple Photos library. I’m happy to answer any questions or clarify.