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iPhone X Why can’t you access your photo library through Messages anymore??
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It hasn't been changed. It has to be something specific to the way you're using your phone - a setting, a temporary glitch that might be resolved by a force-quit of the Messages app.
This Apple support article is dedicated to the subject of sending photos in Messages - https://support.apple.com/HT203038
This Apple support article is dedicated to the subject of sending photos in Messages - https://support.apple.com/HT203038
Photos access in Messages was made more cumbersome in iOS 13 I believe. You tap the camera icon in the message thread to open camera, then a photos icon in the top left corner of the screen to get to your Photos. Maybe this is what you're experiencing?
Previously you were able to go to a list of photos directly from the message screen.
Previously you were able to go to a list of photos directly from the message screen.
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If I'm not mistaken, there was a lockscreen bug on an older iOS version where one can access the photo library through messages notification or some sort. Forgot the details, but maybe that's what the OP was looking for (to see photos of someone else's phone, maybe?). Who knows, seems like it's one of those hit-n-run thread.
Ah I see now there’s the problem, you have to use the stupid app menu to access them whereas before you could do it through the camera like you always could which was much easier. Once you use the app button that menu appears every time and is annoying and in the way, so they have complicated and unnecessarily added an extra step to a once simple function.No, you just press the photos icon
It's a change in design. Now it's down to either using the apps button to enable the apps bar and selecting the photos option there, or using the camera button and then selecting the photos option on the top left there. As to why it was changed, why that is the design that ended up being used, etc., that's something that only Apple can answer.
Are you on about when the phone is locked and you go straight to camera from the Lock Screen?
I’m not sure. Using photos in messages is the easiest thing, the photos button is right there so I’m not sure what the OP is referring to.
Explain how it’s a problem? The photos button is right there in messages. We (or at least I) are a tad confused here
And what do you mean you could do it through the camera once upon a time?
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It has changed in iOS 13 or 12 from being one tap away to being a little more hidden taking some extra taps. That's basically what it seems to be in reference to.
The menu does disappear after tapping the icon again, that’s the only way to make it disappear. What are you talking about?
I confess to getting confused about the nomenclature used to describe the issue and what your actual priorities were, open or closed, what you meant by menu, etc. I'm not sure anyone was able to help you in the end anyway. Maybe it was just important to talk about why you don't like the way it works.
It's a change in design that happens pretty much with any software at one point or another. As for the reasons, that would be only something that Apple can answer in this case.
Yeah, I get that it’s just frustrating when the design changes are inferior and less efficient than the previous workflow, which seems to be the majority of the time with Apple.
UX and UI is always a subjective thing. One’s hindrance can be better for other.