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How to Make the iOS 18 Photos App Suck Less
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Anyone who hates the new Photos app should pick up an Android phone and use the google Gallery app and question why they don't just throw their iPhone away immediately.
iCloud was carefully designed to be confusing so that it locks people into long-term subscription revenue. It is a shakedown and should be illegal the way it is done. There is no way to explain the mess that is iCloud settings on iPhone any other way than to be confusing so people pay monthly just to get rid of the warnings.
These comments remind me of comments from when…
•Early versions of Mac OS X launched.
•iMovie 06 was replaced by iMovie 08.
•iTunes 10 launched.
•FinalCut Pro 7 and express were replaced with FinalCut Pro X.
•Mac OS X Lion launched and the Calendar app turned to leather and the contacts app turned into a fake book that didn’t work.
And these are just the ones under Steve and Scott. Same comments were given then as well, Apple has bad useless engineers and so on and so on…
Change is hard, this is why they rarely do it.
This is why when people demand every year that the icons change just because “icon too boring”, they are rarely taken seriously.
•Early versions of Mac OS X launched.
•iMovie 06 was replaced by iMovie 08.
•iTunes 10 launched.
•FinalCut Pro 7 and express were replaced with FinalCut Pro X.
•Mac OS X Lion launched and the Calendar app turned to leather and the contacts app turned into a fake book that didn’t work.
And these are just the ones under Steve and Scott. Same comments were given then as well, Apple has bad useless engineers and so on and so on…
Change is hard, this is why they rarely do it.
This is why when people demand every year that the icons change just because “icon too boring”, they are rarely taken seriously.
All these undocumented new features used to be called bugs in the program.
It really is horrific. I know literally (literally) a gazillion people with iPhones and not a one likes iOS 18 Photos. It’s beyond bad.
All humans have “reluctance to change”. It’s hardwired into us and gets stronger as we find ways that work. But bad upgrades are not part of that reluctance to change. It’s more not interested in being told how and what to do forcefully.
Generally Speaking a change like this driven by some high level manager or lower executive who has a big bonus riding on pushing out a 'significant' feature or change. User experience and functionality take a back seat to the amount of money the person in charge has riding on it. Read up on the MS Office switch to ribbon (if the insider blogs that documented it can still be found) to see how lying with statistics is used to 'prove' to upper management the need for the change which of course only they can deliver...
One more functional change in the Photos app that really has annoyed me is that when someone forwards you a photo from their phone to yours, it used to sort it in to the main reel on the date you received the photo from them. Now it positions it based on the original date it was taken (from the attached metadata). So when someone sends you an older photo they have, it doesn't appear the end of your reel, but rather buried further back in the middle of the photos you already have on your phone.
One more functional change in the Photos app that really has annoyed me is that when someone forwards you a photo from their phone to yours, it used to sort it in to the main reel on the date you received the photo from them. Now it positions it based on the original date it was taken (from the attached metadata). So when someone sends you an older photo they have, it doesn't appear the end of your reel, but rather buried further back in the middle of the photos you already have on your phone.
Change for the sake of change, and an awful one at that.
It took me a couple of days to get used to the new format, but once I figured it out, it wasn’t too bad. In fact, after discovering the customization options, I ended up leaving it as is. Sure, there are a few things I’d like to see improved, but it’s definitely not the worst part of the iOS update. What really annoys me is how every update seems to come with a fresh batch of bugs. 🐞
I love it too. I have 28,000+ photos on my iPhone, a small number of them of them edited on my phone.
While I always shoot in RAW (both regular cameras and iPhone), and export serious photos to Lightroom (with a catalog of several hundred thousand photos from my regular cameras going back years), sometimes it's nice editing on my phone (say, if I'm on the train, or out and about).
I find the manner in which photos can be sorted, and especially finding photos by content/context (for example finding all blue cars, etc) to be outstanding.
And the editing tools are excellent (not Lightroom level, but sill outstanding and easy to use on a phone).
Overall the Photos app is excellent and a huge improvement. It's one of Apple's best iPhone apps.
I do wonder if those hating the app are serious or semi serious photographers?
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18.2 Photos simply sucks. Now look, most of us take photos with our cameras, so MANY times we need the ability to rotate images. Such a command should be front and center. So I get the image up... didn't there used to be an "EDIT" button? Nope it's gone. I'm trying everything I see on the screen but came upon some bunch of lines with tiny round circles to click on, something looking like music notation. Oh look, 2 squiggly icons in the top right, looking like they would rotate the image. EXCEPT they are grayed out. Clicking everywhere until I discover by chance that if I choose to CROP the image, I DO spy a control in that upper right corner that looks like it rotates the mage. Frak, it's only a one way rotate, not a rotate right, rotate left. Pathetic.
I consider it my civic duty to post how much I hate the Photos app.
Very disappointing Apple.
Very disappointing Apple.
Here's a tip. Tap three times. Takes less than 1/2 second. Easy.
Only "some users"? I would have to question that statement. I guess I'm staying on iOS 17 until 19 comes out - then I'll upgrade to whatever version 18 is on at the time. Why change things for the sake of change? To justify a salary sounds more like it. Oh well. My 2 cent rant.
With iOS 18, Apple overhauled the Photos app, introducing a new, unified design that did away with the navigation bar and merged everything into a single screen. It marked the single biggest change to image management since the launch of the Photos app, and it's been controversial with some users.
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There's no returning to what the Photos app used to be unless Apple decides to roll back the changes, but there are a few tweaks that can be made to make it easier to get used to the new layout.
First, if you haven't done so already, scroll down to the bottom of the Photos app and tap on Edit. From there, make sure all your most used Photos features are at the top of the app. In this section, you'll find Recent Days, Albums, People and Pets, Memories, and Pinned Collections.
Pinned Collections is a little confusing because it's a second customizable interface that has many of the same options as the main app, but think of it as a folder in a folder. It can be useful to put up top and add your most accessed utilities to, such as screenshots or specific albums.
You can rearrange the sections of your Photos app by dragging and dropping to reorder, plus you can hide any of the collections. If you don't want to see Featured Photos, Wallpaper Suggestions, or Trips, for example, you can uncheck those so they won't be listed in the app. If you don't like that redundant Pinned Collections section, you can hide that too.
If you haven't spent a lot of time fussing with the Photos app, you might not know about the filters. In the full Library view, which you get to by swiping down, tapping on the arrows will show you the filters option. You can filter for photos, videos, edited images, screenshots, and favorites, or sort by recently added or date captured. There are also options to weed out screenshots and Shared With You images from your main photo library.
The new Photos app isn't all bad. Search has improved quite a bit, and you can search for really specific parameters like "plants in Florida" or "Eric in a blue shirt."
What do you think of the iOS 18 Photos app? Are you getting used to it? Let us know in the comments below.
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People get up in arms period. One doesn’t even have to be an apple stakeholder to unload. Plenty of apple observers voice their criticisms of apple. But a design change is not anything objective, it’s completely subjective.
But people who are apple consumers certainly have the right to declare their feelings, and in a public forum those are debated. And those apple fans are creaky in their right to defend apple; it’s their money they are spending.
When you claim to have set a semantic trap in your verbiage, it’s clearly disingenuous. But nonetheless people feel the way they feel about the photos app.
I personally like the update.
It just seems like it was changed for the need of changing. My issue is it isn't consistent with the other apps. All the others have the easy to access options at the bottom of the screen. It makes sense and it's easy to access. Why change it. The X option at the bottom gets to the spots you need but we dont need the movement of the photos etc. It's just junk to be honest. I hope they listen and change it.