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iOS 18: How to Customize and Reorder the Photos App

I posted this here, but feel it needs to be posted here, too. This app is garbage...

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?
 
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How do I rearrange the Albums?

If I make an album from a group of photos from 2018 I'd like it to be in chronological order when I pull up all the albums not in the order in which I created the album.
 
shmeffrey said:
How do I rearrange the Albums?

If I make an album from a group of photos from 2018 I'd like it to be in chronological order when I pull up all the albums not in the order in which I created the album.
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they have completley messed up any album viewing. I have albums withing albums and trying to find anything in the new app is just a mess.
 
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citysnaps said:
You can easily make your iPhone's scrollable photo grid any size you want (and any time you want) by using your thumb and index finger to zoom in and out. It's a slick feature. Especially if you have a lot of photos on your phone (around 28,000 for me).

It's easy to use and it works great.
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Doing this doesn't make the preview photos larger, it puts a single photo in full-screen mode. It's possible I am doing this wrong, do you have a youtube you can point me to with instruction?

EDIT: I figured it out!! I am a happy camper!! :cool: Thank you!!
 
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avheatherim said:
Doing this doesn't make the preview photos larger, it puts a single photo in full-screen mode. It's possible I am doing this wrong, do you have a youtube you can point me to with instruction?

EDIT: I figured it out!! I am a happy camper!! :cool: Thank you!!
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Zooming the grid in/out while scrolling is a pretty neat feature. That's pretty much all I need for a phone photo browser.

At some point in the near future we'll get Apple AI which will let us say something like, "Show me all photos for the years 2010 and 2013 having men with beards walking dogs in the frame." And it'll do it within a second or so.
 
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