For all of its worthy attributes, iPhoto for iOS will disappoint some people. First, it does not work on an iPod touch. So anyone who bought a touch for the content creation and viewing will sadly lose out on this excellent software. Similarly, those who bought the first generaton iPad will not be able to use iPhoto.

Almost every time I edited an image, the app paused to update the iPhoto library in the form of a dialog box and progress bar. Sometimes that progress bar took as long as 10 seconds to complete, and within minutes, it would appear again. This sometimes happens in the midst of an operation, and that got annoying.

The program's artistic effects are very nice, but some, such as the Oil Paint and Watercolor effects, are not adjustable: You can keep the effect, copy it, or remove it.

The opening clean look is appealing, but I wish there were some way to customize the interface. Right now, iPhoto rules user interaction with their images. I'd like to see more flexibility and customization of the major interface items such as the arrangement and order of the albums, the content of the albums and events, and the background colors, so users can set up the program with visual cues that are meaningful to them.