I’m digging it. Looks nice with this latest beta 5 update. And after you customize it to remove things you don’t need to see anymore. Prefer it over the 17.6 photos app.
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Does anybody actually LIKE the new iOS 18 Photos app? [MERGED]
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How does one get to Favorites in B5 if not through the carousel? Because in B4 that seems to be the only way that they are accessible
It's a big bummer still if you're used to just seeing your recent stream of photos in one folder and then Favorites in another, along with your other curated albums (a la iOS 17 and prior). I've customized as much as I could to get my 'Albums' and 'Utilities' and 'Media Types' sections at the top, but it seems 'Favorites' are only found under 'Pinned Collections' and nowhere else? That's my only remaining gripe.
Didn't realize how much better it would be by just removing the carousel part at the top. Would be nice if you could also reorder the items listed in each of the sections, like in Utilities so that I can have 'Map' listed towards the top so I can get at it without jumping into another sub-menu.
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Beta 5 doesn’t solve the real issue imo. Just gets rid of the reason the redesign was justified, which was seeing your memories as a big poster if I remember correctly.
What are “Collections”? What are “Albums”? How are they different? Why should I bother with both? Why is everything one long scroll that doesn’t facilitate any muscle memory and I have to read to find what I’m looking for?
I’m not going to bother to customize and reorder the app, nor will the vast majority of users. It’s a better app for the 5% who care to customize it and a much worse app for the majority who don’t.
What are “Collections”? What are “Albums”? How are they different? Why should I bother with both? Why is everything one long scroll that doesn’t facilitate any muscle memory and I have to read to find what I’m looking for?
I’m not going to bother to customize and reorder the app, nor will the vast majority of users. It’s a better app for the 5% who care to customize it and a much worse app for the majority who don’t.
Collections looks to be the automatically generated albums while the actual Albums are the folders we manually create and curate.
The size and proximity of the select, search and account icons at the top right is one of the worst UX decisions I've ever seen. How can Apple be this bad?
In general, what's to like? I see no improvement at all.
There is never an occasion where I want to be anywhere other than in my recents with most recent first. If I want to be anywhere else, I'll use search. In this new app, I often end up in other places and can't really figure out why or how to get back to the only view I want. It's annoying.
In general, what's to like? I see no improvement at all.
There is never an occasion where I want to be anywhere other than in my recents with most recent first. If I want to be anywhere else, I'll use search. In this new app, I often end up in other places and can't really figure out why or how to get back to the only view I want. It's annoying.
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I was just about to say it appears so, but saw you can put your Albums inside of Collections so that those Albums appear within the "Collections" view, but also right below them in their own separate Albums view. Now I have no clear idea what they're supposed to be... Screenshots is also a Collection... but isn't it also an Album? Memories and Trips being separate also makes zero sense to me. Isn't a trip not a memory? Combine them. No need for a whole separate section. Name that memory "trip to ..." What makes it worse is that a "Trip" is technically a Memory, but it's also not because it's not under memories?
The bottom of the camera roll is a bit messed up. The division between the camera roll and the next section needs work. Sometimes I can't see all of the photos at the bottom.
is the photo editor within the photos app improved/changed at all? Has ProRaw handling been improved? (I'd love the option to be able to hide ProRAW files from the main gallery and only have them in a sub folder, then only images I edit and export shown in the main gallery)
The photo editing functions appear to be mostly the same however the video editing experience has definitely taken a hit. If only due to the vastly inferior scrubber.
I like change when it’s for the better. I don’t like change just for the sake of change though. I’ve seen plenty of apps destroyed that way.
Takes a little while to get used to but i don’t think it’s terrible. I also don’t think changes were necessary
If they just set an option to let me launch the app with all my photos taking up the full screen I'd be happy. I don't care about all the extra junk. If i ever do need it then I can swipe down or go into a menu to access it.
There was nothing wrong with the photo app in iOS 17. They just changed it for the sake of being able to add a new "feature" to the list on iOS 18.
There was nothing wrong with the photo app in iOS 17. They just changed it for the sake of being able to add a new "feature" to the list on iOS 18.
You mean, they changed it to FORCE this new "feature" on us all in iOS & iPadOS 18, along with any/all other AI additions or changes they choose fit.
Man I hate this new Photos redesign.. I’m trying to switch to Google Photos as I write this
Reasons why people don't like it were specifically mentioned, which had NOTHING to do with the change of the layout. There are function issues with the new Photos app which are minor, but time-wasting and annoying. There is a bit of redundancy in the ML-curated "smart" categories. Some of the sort options are laid out in a way that presents the sort options only 2/6 at a time, whereas some of the more useful ones are toward the back of the list.
NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING to do with being "changed". Either make a counterargument to the valid critiques given. "Because change" isn't a valid argument. It's just a statement and a not accurate statement at that. I wouldn't have had to rewrite the reasons above if you'd bothered to watch a brief video where someone else already went through the issues more succinctly than myself.
That's the restatement of "some" of the critiques that you and other folks won't make a counterargument against. You're just upset that you think Apple made a masterpiece change right out of the gate. I would argue that they still have work to do.
Since you aren't saying anything of substance and your only claim is "because changes, though". I'm putting this as the close end of the loop. You haven't made an argument. I don't know if you can reason logically beyond your emotional need to make false claims to run cover for Apple engineers' shortsightedness here.
Personally, I think it's better without. But I'm with you on the fact that often Apple can serve new interface options to people who want them by just adding a toggle. It's strange to me that it's all or nothing. They have already designed and built both interfaces. They just need a setting to turn it on or off. I think it's a thing they could do with Contact Posters as well. I have friends that, in their words, "heart that feature". But it's a nightmare to me and I think we could both have our way with one toggle.
I also think the "Collections" have far too many categorical redundancies. But I think we will finally see it refined into a usable app around 18.6.
Nope. That’s distraction. I read online they created something similar to Google’s magic eraser to delete things in pictures you don’t want.
Apple's
In iOS 18, the iPhone 15 Pro models and iPhone 16 line will be able to delete distractions from photos thanks to "Clean Up."
I'm not sure you're the one to call others emotional with the litany of endless whining you've been posting all around here
I sure don't lose any sleep over an app on my phoneI never said the rework is perfect, just that I like it. Nothing is perfect. I think the recent removal of the carousel made it even better.
My main point is still valid - people are typically afraid of change and that alone creates a bad first impression for anything that's been changed. For better or worse.
they can honestly keep everything the same..just give me tabs at the bottom as well…
I keep trying to make a new “memory” and my photos have been “processing” for almost 24 hours. How long does it take