Agreed, it just seems like change for the sake of change.
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Does anybody actually LIKE the new iOS 18 Photos app? [MERGED]
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I think we should start a petition for apple to bring back the old system ( but keep some things like Trips)
You can go off of FB14227353 submitted Oct 1st if you like ;-)
I used to sync my images and videos from mac to iphone, in ios 17 there was a recent folder where i was able to see the newly clicked images videos or downloaded things, but in this new ios 18 recent folder i can see all of my previously synced things, i dont know how to transfer the new media to mac to sync as everything is visible there
I've given up on Apple Photos.
I'm now using Google Photos (sacrilege).
I've lost my s__t over this garbage trying to find things one too many times.
I'm now using Google Photos (sacrilege).
I've lost my s__t over this garbage trying to find things one too many times.
It looks like iOS 18.2 might have improved the photos app a bit more although still pretty bad ux overall
I am only going based on other things posted here so I have not seen it for myself but apparently photos and videos are no longer viewed in a smaller window when you tap them
Aahh yes looks right. They now take up the whole screen. Much better. God only knows which idiot at crApple thought it was a good idea to show them the other way!
After some time out in the wild for the normal folks to use it, seems like the general consensus is that the new Photos App is garbage... and it's also not! 😆
What you describe is Apple's new design paradigm: "Apple; What the h*ll is this?" and it harkens back to the dark ages when every app was designed by different companies or different teams, each of which had their own design philosophy. It was only the very basic fundamentals that stayed the same between apps in older ecosystems, whether those ecosystems were from Microsoft, Commodore or Atari: Calamus was dramatically different in design than Pagestream which was dramatically different in design from Fleet Street Publisher which was dramatically different in design from another DTP package. You get the idea. It was *only Apple* during that time that tried to flip that and make everything work together in a relatively consistent way. Everything was supposed to follow a consistent design paradigm, so that even though you had to learn specific features, at least you knew where to expect those features to be presented, how they would be presented, and even to a large extent what they might do. Features were clearly presented, so that users, once they learned a single software product, could apply much of that knowledge to other products. This was the single saving-grace of the Mac ecosystem: Everything worked in a more-or-less similar way beyond those basics like "here is how to click" and "this button here expands a window." To a large extent Windows is still this way; with what are often different and opposing design paradigms in different apps meaning that each app's interface must be learned individually and that knowledge may not be applicable in any way to another application. In all other ways Macs back then were truly behind in an huge array of ways: They were desperately, painfully, slow compared to the Atari and Amiga systems running the same CPU, and vastly overpriced. DOS and Windows systems ran vastly more software. Being much more usable by "the everyperson" is what made Apple special, and what made it thrive. They have thrown it all away. All of it, and can no longer even design their own software to look and function the same across products. Their designs are unclear, scattered, and now often come down to just being a bunch of random c*ap we have to memorize. Without Apple leading the way, and their users insisting on this, we are seeing the random 'design it however we want' philosophy filtering into third party apps as well. We are witnessing the MacOS and iOS ecosystems devolve in real-time.
Well half the votes hate it and only about 20% like it, I'd say that's a negative consensus overall. Although the thread likely draws in more of those with a certain opinion.
I do like that they're continuing to make tweaks/improve it. Usually it seems like they simply change something and leave it that way.
@panjandrum:
Your comment is one of the best I´ve read the last months. Thanks!
@Thread:
Last saturday was a very sad day.
The photos app, which has been on my iphone homescreen bottom line on the left (I´m lefthanded) since October 2012 (iPhone 5) has been replaced with HashPhotos.
With the new photoapp I can not:
1. see at a glance how many pics I´ve taken this year. Worked 12 years flawlessly.
2. go to maps, scroll to a city and tap on the small icon with the number of pics and SEE the pics because a black screen shows up with no pics at all.
3. tap a big search button in the bottom bar where my thumb already IS. Instead I have to go to the top of the screen to aim for the little blue magnifier. That alone sucks!
The icon of the photos app, which was the only app in 12 years that has never changed its place on my main homescreen, is now history. Unbelievable!
And there is so many other crap in other Apple apps that I really lost my trust in them.
And as I said in other threads: I´m already afraid of ios19, where they will go on with silly, dumb and ugly changes for the sake of change.
Your comment is one of the best I´ve read the last months. Thanks!
@Thread:
Last saturday was a very sad day.
The photos app, which has been on my iphone homescreen bottom line on the left (I´m lefthanded) since October 2012 (iPhone 5) has been replaced with HashPhotos.
With the new photoapp I can not:
1. see at a glance how many pics I´ve taken this year. Worked 12 years flawlessly.
2. go to maps, scroll to a city and tap on the small icon with the number of pics and SEE the pics because a black screen shows up with no pics at all.
3. tap a big search button in the bottom bar where my thumb already IS. Instead I have to go to the top of the screen to aim for the little blue magnifier. That alone sucks!
The icon of the photos app, which was the only app in 12 years that has never changed its place on my main homescreen, is now history. Unbelievable!
And there is so many other crap in other Apple apps that I really lost my trust in them.
And as I said in other threads: I´m already afraid of ios19, where they will go on with silly, dumb and ugly changes for the sake of change.
I don't notice a difference. Looks the same when I tap on a photo as it always has. Don't recall a "smaller" window.
It helped me to hide many of the sections I don't use. I have it streamlined. That made a difference. And being able to use pinned collections for favorites or whatever also helps. They've cleaned it up where the camera roll meets the first section. It's smooth now.
Coupled with the (alleged) camera software downgrades on my 11 Pro, this is my main reason I am moving again to Galaxy world. Also I don’t like oversharpened and overprocessed shots new iPhones produce, on Android I can at least bypass all of this trash with Camera API 2, on Apple devices even CAMERA SWITCHING is hardcoded, just recently I had learned iPhone sometimes used digital zoom when switching to 2x camera – I covered main cam with my finger and 2x also didn’t work, sounds like nuts.
Apple doesn’t understand that photography is art, and having photographs properly sorted matters A LOT, especially for such inattentive persons like me. Probably I would not be waiting for s25 since s24 already covers my needs. I will be missing Airdrop tho.
I don’t believe in “real photographers do not shoot with smartphones” sort of mantra. I can and had been shooting a lot with DSLR back in the days, I just got too lazy and tired of weird looks from people since in my country people don’t like big cameras but are ok with smartphones smh. Also smartphone has multiple advantages over most cameras since you can both store, edit, share your photos straight away without breaking your head over wired file transfers of relying on some poorly coded smartphone app and slow speeds. Also this camera is literally always with you
Apple doesn’t understand that photography is art, and having photographs properly sorted matters A LOT, especially for such inattentive persons like me. Probably I would not be waiting for s25 since s24 already covers my needs. I will be missing Airdrop tho.
I don’t believe in “real photographers do not shoot with smartphones” sort of mantra. I can and had been shooting a lot with DSLR back in the days, I just got too lazy and tired of weird looks from people since in my country people don’t like big cameras but are ok with smartphones smh. Also smartphone has multiple advantages over most cameras since you can both store, edit, share your photos straight away without breaking your head over wired file transfers of relying on some poorly coded smartphone app and slow speeds. Also this camera is literally always with you
The problem of modern companies is that people come and people go. And it is a constant process, burnout is real and happens to everyone and companies do not really care to prevent that. New generations of PR specialists, managers, software developers all wanna “make their footprint” and often ruin everything to their own liking in the process. Kinda sad to expect that from Apple, I thought they have a culture and style that is worth keeping and developing. Their recent controversial “Crush!” iPad ad kinda sums up what happens at larger scale at Apple: they take all the old philosophy and shrink it into… Photos app, useless App Library, thousands of “recently deleted” folders in every corner, a dozen of AI creepy features such as face and object recognition and such
I'm actually thankful to my older self for not updating to iOS 18, because damn, this version is ****
Uhm, I hate to break it to you, but it's a well known fact that Samsung over-processes the heck out of their photos. To each his own, but I'll take Apple photo processing over Samsung's any day.