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Apple Tweaks iOS 18 Photos App in Fifth Beta
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I don’t know. Whenever I go into the Photos app on the beta and I try to search for photos from, say August 5, it will not show me all photos taken on that day. I’m using that as a way to clean up my library without relying on a duplicate finder, and it’s so annoying that you can’t search by date taken anymore. I don’t want a photo memory album to pop up. I just want the files or the images, but this update does not allow that.
This is much better, at the very least give people a choice for what they want to view. I’ve been installing the betas since ios12 and can get used to change but I genuinely disliked what was done to photos so much I reverted back to iOS 17 for the first time.
Just bring back Camera Roll, and call it a day please! Apple just seems to have no clue anymore.
And that’s what I don’t ever want to see on my main page. Keep that grid on a separate page or something and in its place, make a recents so I can only see what I took on my phone. I’ll sort and look at later.
As much as I have been loving iOS 18 thus far with testing out these betas, the photos app is a giant step in the wrong direction
The UI of it before was just fine, but what they've done to it now is an absolute disgrace
The UI of it before was just fine, but what they've done to it now is an absolute disgrace
Mapple reinventing the wheel again and again.
With iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, Apple is introducing a new design for the Photos app, which is designed to better surface high-quality images so that users are able to better relive their memories when browsing through the app. The Photos app changes have been in testing in the developer and public betas, and based on user feedback, Apple has decided to make some design updates.
To make for a simplified viewing experience, Apple removed the carousel. In earlier betas, there was an option to swipe left or right from the Photos view to see Collections, such as Featured images, videos, Favorites, and more, but these Collection elements are also available by scrolling down, so the carousel was a bit repetitive and could be confusing if you accidentally swiped and weren't sure how to get back to your main Library view.
All Photos has been revamped and it now displays more of the photos grid, and users who have multiple albums will see their albums higher up in the Photos app, eliminating the need to scroll almost to the bottom of the interface to get to the albums option.
Recently Saved content was tucked away in the Utilities album, but it is now integrated into the Recent Days collection.
Apple is keeping the unified Photos app redesign, but the updates should make it less confusing to navigate. The app will open to your grid view, where you can select to delete, edit, or share multiple images. There is a clear search interface for quickly finding photos, and you can view your Collections simply by scrolling down.
Apple creates default Collections such as Recent Days, People and Pets, Trips, Memories, Albums, Featured Photos, and Wallpaper suggestions, among others, but customizable collections are available. You can create a Collection from any of your albums, trips, or memories, or select a specific media type like videos or a specific person or pet.
There are also options to remove Collections and organize Collections in your preferred arrangement so what you want to see first is up at the top of the app.
The refreshed Photos app is available in the fifth developer betas of iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, and the new look will also come to the next public betas.
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Right, cos that was the problem with the iOS18 Photos app…
What bugs me is that there's a customize button right at the bottom! Why not just add a toggle for the "Show All Images at the top" for the people that don't like it?
It's not like they're afraid of giving users options - Safari has a toggle for the old layout!
It's not like they're afraid of giving users options - Safari has a toggle for the old layout!
I hate the new photos app so bad. One of the rare times apple does something I hate
It's the second big design screw up I can think of, the first being the Safari redesign in iOS, User interface Design is not in a good place at Apple, it doesn't look like most of the time because they look good but it's the second major redesign gone bad, for a company with their design history that shouldn't be happening imo.
Which is the biggest mistake yet for photos. I sync to both Google photos and iCloud. I use Google photos way more and this is just another reason to do so. That the search is 100x better than Apple photos.
Just give us a "Recents" album as the main view for this app, and forgo adding gimmicks to that page.
What does it look like on the Vision Pro now? On it, the carousel was separate from the photo library. (and the very wide aspect ratio made it look quite bad for real life use, imo)
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Eww nah leave that for the android peeps. I have 40,000 photos and I’m sure others have many more, I don’t want to deal with folders for all that
A chronological timeline plus albums and auto-generated events for holidays and trips based on location is ideal in my opinion
What I’d really like is an AI driven feature to recommend photos to delete, that can surface all the pocket photos, blurry photos with similar sharper versions, old screenshots of things i’ve already bought or acted on, etc
This is the fundamental thing the team working on Photos seems to not understand. 90% of the time I’m opening the Photos app to use the Recents album. I don’t need anything else getting in my way when I open the app.
Imagine if you got into your car and it immediately started giving you all sorts of suggestions for places to go / things to see. Very few people get into a car without a purpose looking for suggestions. Likewise, I think very few people open the Photos app without purpose. The app should optimise for that purpose. Cluttering the screen with dozens of different things just makes it harder to do the thing I want to do.
There’s a conspiracy theory that these awful redesigns do well on paper, because people have to spend more time in the app and perform more taps to do the things they used to, which results in increased “engagement” which makes exec presentations look good. I can’t help but wonder if there’s any truth to this because it really feels like this is what’s happening. No redesign of any app has ever made anything simpler or easier for me.
You can literally swipe into your photo library, press the 2 arrows icon in the bottom left corner, set it to "Sort by Recently Added", and it will stay set to recents forever. At that point, all you're having to do extra is swipe up if it's an older photo which you would have had to do anyways.
I'm really not a fan of the redesign, but I don't understand how common the recents complaint is, because it has been addressed since Beta 1. I'm personally very happy it has become something you can completely hide or relegate to a pinned collection button you bury at the end of a list, because I almost never care about the order I added photos. (One of the very few things I actually do like...)
I loath the new photos app, I feel like I have no clue where anything is anymore. It's genuinely made me use my S24 ultra, the Samsung gallery app is pretty good.
More likely poor app design due to a lack of perspective. Directing a movie isn't just knowing what to do and why, it's knowing what not to do and why. App design if not all design is similar.
I feel like every time I open the photos app everything is different. I don’t take tons of photos, but still.
I’d love to be able to arrange photos into folders so that they don’t always all appear together. Albums are one thing, but they don’t actually move the photos.
I’d love to be able to arrange photos into folders so that they don’t always all appear together. Albums are one thing, but they don’t actually move the photos.