That's true and the name is actually what causes all the confusion, I think. It would be best if they would just call it "All Photos" or "Picture Pool" or whatever makes it clearer that it shows all the pictures on the phone in one place.
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Does anybody actually LIKE the new iOS 18 Photos app? [MERGED]
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I hate the new syncing to icloud prompt. It's now on your account profile pic on the top right on a separate page instead of below your grid of pics on the bottom, where it should be. And now it's not a horizontal progress bar, it's a circular bar around your profile pic. And you can't "force it to sync" as easily, it just doesn't work as well. If you pressed pause then resume syncing, it'd force sync and sync pics immediately, now it just...doesn't for some reason.
And before someone says a circular progress bar is "better design" than a horizontal bar, they switched Airdrop progress bar from circular to horizontal on both MacOS and iOS now.
And before someone says a circular progress bar is "better design" than a horizontal bar, they switched Airdrop progress bar from circular to horizontal on both MacOS and iOS now.
Since the Photos app is just a view on your stored photos I am surprised there isn’t already a third party app that gives an iOS 17 style view.
is it simply to provide views on stored photos?
while the revamped UI is a failure, the additions of trips views and preset views of receipts, QR code and doc are nice touch.
Apple should use on-device logic to do more in addition to providing views of photos, e.g. similar photos, "now and then", etc.
more options of editing photos should be provided too, like adjusting exposure in EV stops.
Twice so far, once earlier in the iOS 18 betas and now just yesterday, I got a notification about a "moment" that turned out to be a collection of pictures of my Dad. The only problem is that these are pictures of my Dad in the hospital after he had his second heart attack, I never got a chance to talk with him again and it makes me SO incredibly sad and brings up so many terrible thoughts and memories.
What's worse is that I already have these photos in an album I created so that when I DO want to see him in this state, I can. I don't need AI putting them front and center for me at a time when I ABSOLUTELY do not want to see him. At least not like that. Just like I don't need the entire Photos app taken over by AI creating "Moments" for me.. I've done just fine curating my own photos into Albums I've created.
I REALLY hate what Apple's done with this. Do I just turn off Notifications altogether and then maybe miss out on some cool things it might make for my Daughter or my Wife & I or something? It's clear that the AI baked in is just garbage. Maybe I need to buy a fancy new iPhone 16 so that the AI built in can recognize to not show me pictures of my dead Dad?
What's worse is that I already have these photos in an album I created so that when I DO want to see him in this state, I can. I don't need AI putting them front and center for me at a time when I ABSOLUTELY do not want to see him. At least not like that. Just like I don't need the entire Photos app taken over by AI creating "Moments" for me.. I've done just fine curating my own photos into Albums I've created.
I REALLY hate what Apple's done with this. Do I just turn off Notifications altogether and then maybe miss out on some cool things it might make for my Daughter or my Wife & I or something? It's clear that the AI baked in is just garbage. Maybe I need to buy a fancy new iPhone 16 so that the AI built in can recognize to not show me pictures of my dead Dad?
Forget about AI trying to help - it's over-hyped.
Does this work for you?
Feature a person or holidays less often in Photos on iPhone
In Photos on your iPhone, turn off memories and featured photos or choose to feature certain people less often.
support.apple.com
NO! I don't want to just omit the hundreds of photos of my Dad because Siri's AI only wants to show me 6 photos.
It is odd that Apple has decided to name it Recents instead of something like All. Apple used to be focused on such details.
Memories is a feature I want to love, but I turned it off. On my MacBook I was able to see the size of each Memory that was created for me. Some were over 30 and 40GB. In total, there was over 240GB of Memories that I did not create. I’ve submitted multiple requests to Apple to allow us to turn off the auto-generated Memories. I tried to like them, but it picks the worst pictures and music but admittedly your situation is far worse. I have enjoyed making my own, but they get lost in the sea of generated Memories. The toggle is all or nothing. Either accept their generated Memories and see the ones you created or see nothing.
I think Memories is a great concept but the implementation needs work.
I'm not sure size should be an issue. Creating a Memories section (or indeed any other section / album) doesn't generate duplicate photo's to place in that specific album, all it does is just create a link to the original copy in the All Photo's section. I don't understand how the Memories section would use up an extra 240GB of space over and above All Photo's. Unless I'm mistaken and it does actually create copies of the photo's from the All Photo's section?
I agree with your other point, sometimes the curation of the photo's leave a bit to be desired, but I guess it will get more accurate as time goes on.
I’d like to send a screenshot but like I mentioned I deleted them all. Size shouldn’t be an issue but it is. I was also under the impression that Memories just contained links to photos and videos, but that does not appear to be the case. I’m not brilliant in general, but I was a software engineer for 30 years so in terms of selecting Memories and hitting the Info button I feel pretty confident. I can’t believe Apple would implement this as a copy rather than links and then not allow us to turn it off. I’ll enable Memories again to see if I can screenshot what I’m seeing.
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So it appears if you choose Movie at the bottom of the screen and then click on the music button to change the song, it will save the Memory. So some of the large Memories were likely created like this although I know I had many very large Memories called Summer or Fall that were definitely auto-generated.
Here is a screenshot with just 7 Memories. Admittedly there are many 4K videos in those Memories:
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Is that the total size of the original photo's rather than it implying its copied them and takes up additional storage space?
I'm just playing devils advocate btw, I don't know the answer, just thought its strange how photo's would need to be copied into Memories and bulk up storage for no good reason.
I had that problem on my iPad with iOS 17. After updating to iOS 18, recent days updates every time I charge the iPad. I've never had that problem on my phone.
The new app completely and utterly sucks.
Why developers feel the need to ruin their apps is beyond me.
Why developers feel the need to ruin their apps is beyond me.
On phone, I'm liking it, although I just got started with it. But most phone album apps are dreadful, so....
On iPad, haven't updated yet, but almost everything about the current interface bothers me and all 3 of my tablets have a layer of dust on them, can't imagine it getting worse.
On iPad, haven't updated yet, but almost everything about the current interface bothers me and all 3 of my tablets have a layer of dust on them, can't imagine it getting worse.
I agree that this is extremely disappointing. I love scrolling through my photos quickly - say when looking for a particular one from a multi-day, multi-location trip - when I see the name of city I know I'm looking for, I can quickly stop my scrolling to concentrate on actually finding the photo in question. Now that is no longer possible. Why on earth did they do this? To save space? How about instead getting rid of the huge "Library" label at the top, as that serves no purpose.
Otherwise I agree that the new app is fine.
Hi, may I know what build nos of iOS 18 u guys are using?
Mine is build no 22A3354, which is the rev released on 18 Sept, having the annoying thick gaps in between the thumbnails (rounded corners) in grid views as shown in the attached screenshot.
Today, I checked the new ip16 pro max (build no. 22A3351) in the local Apple Store. Surprisingly, the grid views look same as that in iOS 17, that is squared thumbnails without thick gaps.
Do you guys notice the differences?
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You’ve highlighted something I hadn’t realised. Why do photos in albums have rounded corners, but photos in the library have straight corners? I’d like some consistency please Apple
Yes, it is inconsistent and yet it wastes a lot of display estate given the same thick gaps in either row of 3 or row of 5 in not only albums but *any* grid views other than library!