That is really annoying too, and then the area with the actual video is even smaller.
Isn’t the point with the bigger screens to view things, larger? And have more on screen?
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Does anybody actually LIKE the new iOS 18 Photos app? [MERGED]
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That is really annoying too, and then the area with the actual video is even smaller.
Isn’t the point with the bigger screens to view things, larger? And have more on screen?
When there are even viral tweets from randos about how bad the redesign sucks, maybe it's just not that good. Not everyone hating on a change hates the concept of a change in general. Most of us are just sick of poor redesigns for the sake of redesigning - not just an Apple problem but a general SV one
My god the new photos app is such a inconsistent mess.
Like how is that when you open the app and the recent photos are at the bottom and the oldest ones at the top (just like it was on iOS 17 and you can filter them for the oldest to be at the bottom) but when you go to favourites or videos or hidden or selfie "tab" the most recent ones are at the top and the oldest at the bottom AND you can't change that and sort them?
Also the video player is so dumb, you have to tap that small play button and then tap on the video to watch it in full screen but when you first tap the video to watch it in full screen you have NO option to play it, you have to tap it once again to close the full screen and then tap the play button and once again tap on the video?? like what?
And of course no chance to scrub through the video when it's in full screen, you have to exit it. And why did get rid of the preview when you scrub through the video?
And I'm seeing a lot of lag and stutter when browsing through this app, like when I open an album or close it.
I feel like they were forced to change the design just to have something new in iOS 18 and they did it, but did it bad.
Like how is that when you open the app and the recent photos are at the bottom and the oldest ones at the top (just like it was on iOS 17 and you can filter them for the oldest to be at the bottom) but when you go to favourites or videos or hidden or selfie "tab" the most recent ones are at the top and the oldest at the bottom AND you can't change that and sort them?
Also the video player is so dumb, you have to tap that small play button and then tap on the video to watch it in full screen but when you first tap the video to watch it in full screen you have NO option to play it, you have to tap it once again to close the full screen and then tap the play button and once again tap on the video?? like what?
And of course no chance to scrub through the video when it's in full screen, you have to exit it. And why did get rid of the preview when you scrub through the video?
And I'm seeing a lot of lag and stutter when browsing through this app, like when I open an album or close it.
I feel like they were forced to change the design just to have something new in iOS 18 and they did it, but did it bad.
The more I use it on my older test iPhone, the more I agree with others: “horrible mess”. Is there a gesture/tip to quickly go from scrolling the library to get to other sections? Or we have to click the “x“ to exit viewing the library then scroll to the desired section ?
You literally just have to "figure it out" as you go thru and customize (Option at the very bottom) to your liking.
In a year or so, NO ONES Photo's app will be the same. Someone will say "Hey, go to your blah blah blah folder and then- wait, you don't have that? Weird?!?"
I think you are correct. It's also quite weak rhetorically to say, you hate thing because thing changed. It is not really an argument. It's a meaningless tautology at best, and a strawman at worst. If someone comes along and says that they simply hate the app without justification, maybe the "you just hate change" argument might carry more weight. But when there are so very many justifications that users are making against the changes- might be a case of Ockham's razor. It just simply isn't that good.
Yes, I have customized the sections, maybe hard to explain by text. I have noticed some gestures that may have been there before that either I never knew or used bcoz of the bottom bar.
I wondered if with the new design one can get to the view where it shows the library & the user’s customized sections using a gesture instead of tapping on the “x” once you’re viewing your library.
Exactly. People have specific complaints about what's wrong - the video editing change, looks messy, counterintuitive... It's an app I'm sure a lot of people use multiple times a day so I don't know why they released a redesign so many dislike (again - not just the picky people like me on apple forums) that seems to move things around for no added benefit.
Search ios 18 photos on twitter and you will see so many people who hate it. I customized mine and removed basically every added thing, but it's still a worse version, one we will get more used to with time sure but still not a good change imo
The only way I can find is scrolling to the bottom, and scroll again.
I really don't get why Apple can be so controlling over irrelevant stuff. On my phone, I can't have my library show four photos across. It's either three or five. Sure, it doesn't really matter, it just bugged me enough to type this
It’s only been out for a week and I only really went out last night. I’ve already heard “normies” complaining about it IRL. If the change was so wonderful people would be singing its praises
I wonder whether anyone here has encountered the following problem, which (for me and for quite a few others, judging by https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255760698) is catastrophic.
I should first explain that my wife and I do not use iCloud Photos. We sync selected photos from our family Mac to our iPhones. The Photos app on our Mac holds photos sourced from various devices, including our current iPhones. We sync the best photos back to our iPhones, via the Mac Finder.
Prior to iOS 18, the iPhone Photos app provided a folder called "Recents" (previously known as "Camera Roll") where a user could review the photos they'd taken using that phone (as well as photos saved from messages, screenshots, etc) in order to decide which to keep, which to upload to their Mac, etc. In iOS 18, the Photos app lost that functionality. The photos described above are shown mixed up with photos synced from our Mac, making it impossible to do the triage. I cannot overstate the seriousness of this loss of functionality.
Reading the Apple Discussions thread mentioned above, I see that there's a clumsy workaround in the Camera app, which allows one to swipe between photos taken using the phone, but not to see them in a grid. I don't know what, if any, operations this UI supports as it doesn't work on my iPhone. I think that this may be because my Photos and Camera apps both think that I have "Use Face ID" turned on. I did turn this on as an experiment soon after upgrading to iOS 18, but turned it off soon after. I haven't been able to persuade those two apps that the toggle is off. This, however, is a side issue as it does not affect the catastrophic (for those of us who manage our photos in this manner) loss of functionality of the Photos app.
I should first explain that my wife and I do not use iCloud Photos. We sync selected photos from our family Mac to our iPhones. The Photos app on our Mac holds photos sourced from various devices, including our current iPhones. We sync the best photos back to our iPhones, via the Mac Finder.
Prior to iOS 18, the iPhone Photos app provided a folder called "Recents" (previously known as "Camera Roll") where a user could review the photos they'd taken using that phone (as well as photos saved from messages, screenshots, etc) in order to decide which to keep, which to upload to their Mac, etc. In iOS 18, the Photos app lost that functionality. The photos described above are shown mixed up with photos synced from our Mac, making it impossible to do the triage. I cannot overstate the seriousness of this loss of functionality.
Reading the Apple Discussions thread mentioned above, I see that there's a clumsy workaround in the Camera app, which allows one to swipe between photos taken using the phone, but not to see them in a grid. I don't know what, if any, operations this UI supports as it doesn't work on my iPhone. I think that this may be because my Photos and Camera apps both think that I have "Use Face ID" turned on. I did turn this on as an experiment soon after upgrading to iOS 18, but turned it off soon after. I haven't been able to persuade those two apps that the toggle is off. This, however, is a side issue as it does not affect the catastrophic (for those of us who manage our photos in this manner) loss of functionality of the Photos app.
This is the biggest problem I have with iOS 18. It's beyond frustrating my sync'd Mac photo's are mixed in with all my camera roll photos (some of which I might want to save to my Mac, some I might not - I usually do a purge or review of those every year or two).
I've now checked the Camera app's UI for reviewing photos (accessed by tapping on the square to the left of the shutter button) and it's better than nothing at all but doesn't provide a practical way to review/delete/upload a large number of photos as it only allows one to view, and operate on, one photo at a time.
In the pinned collections, there is a folder called Recently Saved. Could that be what you are looking for?
Also, if you scroll all the way down, there is an option to customize and reorder. Perhaps something in this menu could be helpful for what you are trying to do?
Yeah, if you just take some photos and want to organize a small number of them or maybe view them in a memory, the new app is great.
But if you save a large number of photos to an Album, maybe even use this for work, that you want to keep separated in its own album that you sync across to your Mac, looks like we’re your of luck. Too much emphasis on AI and someone else’s opinion of how we should manage our own photos. Sucks. It’s clearly a case of “let’s make this change for the sake of change” not just to actually make it better. If it was supposed to be better, it’d be better. As of now, it’s just different.
But if you save a large number of photos to an Album, maybe even use this for work, that you want to keep separated in its own album that you sync across to your Mac, looks like we’re your of luck. Too much emphasis on AI and someone else’s opinion of how we should manage our own photos. Sucks. It’s clearly a case of “let’s make this change for the sake of change” not just to actually make it better. If it was supposed to be better, it’d be better. As of now, it’s just different.
No, recently saved doesn’t include pictures taken with the camera. Just actual saved images and screenshots I think.
I have posted in the ipadOS 18 section about searching for tags no longer working unless you type all the words in the tag whereas you used to be able to search for any word, or even part of a word, in tags.
This has rendered most of my tags useless and really taken away what I found the most useful feature. Is it really that bad or am I missing something?
This has rendered most of my tags useless and really taken away what I found the most useful feature. Is it really that bad or am I missing something?
This update to the photos app is so stupid like why is the play button and the „play bar” or whatever it’s called always in different position?
And when you scrub through that play bar it goes lower than it was before? Like why would then even do that, just put it in one place and put the play button it in the middle of the screen…
This app has so many bugs, I’m constantly seeing 2 photos on top of each other, especially when one was taken in 16:9 and the other in 4:3 aspect ratio
And when you scrub through that play bar it goes lower than it was before? Like why would then even do that, just put it in one place and put the play button it in the middle of the screen…
This app has so many bugs, I’m constantly seeing 2 photos on top of each other, especially when one was taken in 16:9 and the other in 4:3 aspect ratio
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Did ios18 Photos app add an additional tap in “recently deleted” photos? Prior, it’d use FaceId & display the photos, now one has to tap “view album” first : (
fyi pinned collection is somewhat useful, in the eventuality that some would choose to upgrade to ios18. If Apple could fix some of the quirks/workflows issues being discussed, it’d be semi useable.
fyi pinned collection is somewhat useful, in the eventuality that some would choose to upgrade to ios18. If Apple could fix some of the quirks/workflows issues being discussed, it’d be semi useable.
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And you can’t tap on the center of the video to play it. i thought it was a bug until i noticed the play icon at the bottom.
Well, it does allow me to AirDrop (or, at greater distances and on multiple platforms, Blip - https://blip.net) entire sub-folders of photos, or move them to a USB for standalone backup and / or sharing. Not relying on vagaries of Apple and not what they might keep, 'upgrade' (like now) or remove in the future.
Not convoluted for me as I've always worked that way, but I can see how it might be for those who wish to go this route and Apple not making it easy to move to that.
Meanwhile, in my case, the 'dating' of photos in the new Library may be completely unrelated to the actual date of the photo / event, as these may be scanned in (or later tweaked) from older physical collections or images sent from other sources. Not about to individually tweak the Meta-data just to make Apple happy.