A very astute, and appropriate perspective.
No matter how frustrated I get with change, I really appreciate reminders like yours
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Does anybody actually LIKE the new iOS 18 Photos app? [MERGED]
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A very astute, and appropriate perspective.
No matter how frustrated I get with change, I really appreciate reminders like yours
Betas are 40% fishing expeditions, so don't forget to share your Feedback, Peeps!
The recent redesign of the Photos app is a step backward. The changes have complicated the process of finding or executing an action, which is counterproductive.
It’s disheartening to see resources being poured into emojis and political wallpapers, while the functionality of the IOS declines. Apple needs to refocus its priorities on improving the functionality of the IOS. I won’t get into that abomination they call the ‘App Store.’
Moreover, the censorship in the Apple Community is unacceptable. The editing and deletion of comments stifles open discussion and needs to be addressed immediately.
The Apple Community forums, if that is what you're referring to, just needs to be shut down. It's been worthless for more than a decade.
As far as private forums, such as this or Apple's, they can do as they wish. It's their right to host and moderate as they see fit.
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Yet, some of us like the direction that Apple is taking. Personally I think the Photos app is much simpler and I love the fact that I can customise it to make it even easier for me to find what I need!
Having mis-handled a shared library to my wife that filled her icloud I had to select by dragging then delete 16,000+ photos. So yes it works, but the initial grab is a little "iffy" as mentioned abive.
I found this article that has some good views of the new Photos screens
The iOS 18 Photos app needs some major tweaks
The redesigned Photos app in the iOS 18 beta aims to simplify, but ends up a hodge-podge of design that will confuse users.
www.cultofmac.com
It’s not even just about seeing the way things are laid out, but actually using it. Like the way scrolling to the right actually randomly scrolls to the left sometimes. Or how videos you don’t want to play start randomly playing just by looking at an album, before even opening it. The scrubber that doesn’t tell you how far into a video you’re going, or the player that doesn’t even tell you how much time in a video has elapsed/how much is left. A million little things in regular use that only serve to frustrate the end user.
It is worse than I thought.
With watchOS10 they prevented me from buying the watch 9 -
with ios18 they will prevent me from buying the iPhone 16pro.
Good for my bank account.
With watchOS10 they prevented me from buying the watch 9 -
with ios18 they will prevent me from buying the iPhone 16pro.
Good for my bank account.
I haven’t really reviewed what’s new with iOS 18 photos app from the keynote but can anyone summarize quickly what sucks about it?
Well I unabashedly love it. It is sleeker and slicker and smarter. I don’t get all the hate and think maybe people just don’t like change. I like that it takes more advantage of the hardware (I think?). I also liked the bordered photo presentation which they took away. I think people just need to get used to it and will like it.
I quite like video auto play but not sure about the infinite replay loop
Search being at the top instead of in the bottom right corner is a step back in terms of ergonomics. The default splash should just be the library with a swipe either way then summoning the custom carousel. The 'albums etc' screen should be hidden from view, not take up half the display.
I can't find a way to force an iCloud sync... it used to sit at the bottom of the gallery but I can't find it in the new UX - was useful if you took a photo that you immediately wanted to use on your Mac while your phone thought it needed to save battery...
It's just disorganized in my opinion. I don't know anyone that likes having all their photos in one, continuous, unorganized stream. At least before I could leave the album view and it would stay put, but now the unified unorganized list is front and center.
It‘s not that bad as soon as you delete 90% of the main screen. That you have kind of a landing-page flair that each user can configure a bit to his liking is nice. I don‘t like Recollections and faces and all that jazz, so its just Fotostream and Albums for me, mostly. Wish that the space below the main photo stream could be used for single albums, but the swipe is nice and the side bar is still there anyway when you need it. They demoted the albums a bit, which is a shame as that metaphor for bringing order to your images works/worked quite well, and I think we could do with more «Zoom»-stages between to small and too big, but other than that not as bad as the reactions had me afraid it‘d be. All things considered, 18 is very low-key so far, small quality of life enhancements and nothing spectacular (up until 2025)
My favorite new feature is when you go to scrub through a video it shrinks. Great added feature!
I’m being sarcastic.
I only played around with it briefly, but it seems they committed the cardinal sin for ANY Gallery or Photo app... to not just have a bog standard "all photos" as the primary screen, sorted by most recent at the top, default.
Sure, do all the fancy AI curated galleries and sorting, but make that side screens to the above.
Generally, I agree with this guy:
Sure, do all the fancy AI curated galleries and sorting, but make that side screens to the above.
Generally, I agree with this guy:
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Tap on your photo/avatar, top Right.
Although I agree with them, it only takes about 10-15 seconds to say it's bad 🤣
Thank you for this! AND YIKES! Why hide something like that away?!? I've been wondering why 3 different devices weren't syncing up photos... Wow, can't believe they hid something that gets used so much.