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iOS 26 Photos App: Everything That's Changed
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I hate that they keep redesigning this app every year or two. I liked it much better pre iOS 16.
Hmm. The photos will be hidden since the glass icon is invisible. Looks like a smudge on the glass surface of my iphone.
I use "not in any album" very frequently on my laptop. It is now possible to do that on the phone, but you need to click on the "sort order" icon (not very intuitive, is it!) then filter then not in an album.
No way to save that view, or to pin it to make it easier to activate.
iOS 17.6.1
If it ain’t broke why fix it. My wife went to 18 and I saw what happened to Photos and said I don’t want that.
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They did it for me. I think I'm the only person who preferred Photos on iOS 18 to iOS 17, so I can only assume the full board at Apple sat down and decided "Let's do this for adrianlondon!". I'm very grateful.
I also like iOS 26 and prefer it to iOS 18 (which I preferred to iOS 17), so again it's all for me. Sorry not sorry.
This is frankly the one an only improvement over iOS 18. The Photos app. Seriously the only thing keeping me from going back to iOS 18.
While reading the article I was expecting a video of that. Alas, this is MR....no proper reporting here.
I simply leave all new hardware at x.0
Not wanting to learn new bugs with a x.1 update.
Apple devs don't dogfood, and that's a crying shame. A CPU from a microwave could handle that - no need for AS chips.
I like the new design EXCEPT that the settings icon (the one you access by clicking on your avatar) is ONLY available on the "collections" tab, not the "library" tab!
I use the library tab like 90% of the time (probably more like 99%), so it's actually quite irritating to have to switch to the collections tab just to access settings :/
PS - The reason I usually have to access the settings is to jumpstart the sync process - for some reason, it frequently suspends syncing to the cloud, so you have to click on "resume" (or whatever it's called). So that's another irritant - I want it ALWAYS to sync IMMEDIATELY if there's a connection.
I use the library tab like 90% of the time (probably more like 99%), so it's actually quite irritating to have to switch to the collections tab just to access settings :/
PS - The reason I usually have to access the settings is to jumpstart the sync process - for some reason, it frequently suspends syncing to the cloud, so you have to click on "resume" (or whatever it's called). So that's another irritant - I want it ALWAYS to sync IMMEDIATELY if there's a connection.
You know what? It’s a really great idea. Thank you for sending them such feedback. I’m old enough to remember the Music App you say. And I’d really like Apple let us customise the bottom bar just like we can do that with the side bar or macOS or iPadOS. Even with more reason on the iPhone because of how constrained the width is.
Sadly I think it’s difficult they allow us to, although not impossible seeing what happened to iPadOS
They made it less simple and quite annoying in iOS 18. It was one of the reasons my friend who switched to iPhone switched back to Android.
