Where is "Favorite" in iPhone Photos app in iOS 18?

My wife updated her iPhone 11 Pro to IOS 18 last week. Her "Favourites" album showed up immediately at the top of the "Pinned Collections". She then 'customized' and removed some choices from the Home Photos page and all is good. But I still have not updated my iPhone 15 Pro because I still have not been reassured that my albums will remain intact. My wife's update carried her albums over just fine but she only has 6 albums vs me having over 300. So, I remain waiting to update. I almost have updated several times then read another post where someone lost their album set up.

Foxfire64 wrote:

My wife updated her iPhone 11 Pro to IOS 18 last week. Her "Favourites" album showed up immediately at the top of the "Pinned Collections". She then 'customized' and removed some choices from the Home Photos page and all is good. But I still have not updated my iPhone 15 Pro because I still have not been reassured that my albums will remain intact. My wife's update carried her albums over just fine but she only has 6 albums vs me having over 300. So, I remain waiting to update. I almost have updated several times then read another post where someone lost their album set up.

If you do, log in to iCloud and see if your albums are there. If they are you won’t lose any albums, but the will be re-indexed and moved around.

That is exactly why I am avoiding the upgrade. I don't want to have to re-index and move over 300 albums. My wife's update didn't change her albums at all but she only had the 6 that I previously mentioned.

On a positive note, I have been coaching several friends as to how to use the new photos app since none had paid attention to the fact that they had updated to IOS 18 automatically until they looked closer and usually after I asked if they had! HA HA. Since I have watched several tutorials on how to use the new app I am comfortable sharing instructions with others. I use my wife's phone as a model. But my phone still remains in the "past".

Hi, I think the issue is not that you can sort the issue by having to read about the update but that it is very simple: The favourite folder is just that, no matter what changes there are to an app the favourite folder should be there, right in front of your nose… so why would a developer put its users through the hassle, look at the likes of posts on the OP and this thread to see the issue this caused! So, why would a developer not make their changes but then when the update is done, leave the folder that would be the most popular folder where it should be… right there where it was before, in front if the users eyes! If they did that and users didn’t want it there ‘then’ they can change it… common sense has been lost in everything we do today and practically ever year Apple ‘as many other developers’ create the same issues when just stopping and thinking about the changes might help avoid the hassle caused to many of their paying customers!

please don’t say ‘don’t buy Apple’ as a retort, that is not a solution!

thanks for your input!

yauretayisha wrote:

That’s still so unnecessary. Our favorites used to be at the top of the screen, now we have to do all these steps just to get it back to how it used to be?

Or you could just hold your finger on the Photos icon on the Home Screen and then tap Favorites.

What do you concur with? The fact that you can hold your finger on the Photos icon on the Home screen and then tap Favorites to get to it directly? Or that you can reconfigure the Photos app to put Favorites wherever you want it, and also put other folders where you want them?

My wife just updated to IOS 18 on her iPhone 11 Pro. Went very well. I helped her to customize the home photos screen by removing some options. Without me doing anything else, her 'Favourites' album is at the top of the "Utilities" section so very easy to access as soon as the app is opened. So, one click to open the app, and a second click to open the 'Favourites' album. Same as it has been with IOS 17. No other issues with the Photos app.

Having said that I am still nervous to update my iPhone 15 Pro because I don't want to lose my album organization of 300 plus albums. No one including Apple can reassure me that they will try transfer over in their current state.

Otherwise, my wife's Photos app is working well and easy to use. I have taken several online courses on the Photos app and have helped several friends set up theirs. But I am still holding off! Weird!

Patsy1966 wrote: "What a dreadful update..."

Patsy ~ Consider letting Apple know. (We're all just users in these user-to-user communities.)

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marissa_gonzalez wrote: "...Stop changing things that don’t need it Apple 🙄"

marissa ~ Apple isn't here in these user-to-user communities. Use this form:

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“Favorites” doesn’t even show up in this list…..

I can find my favorites after I used the customization feature of the new Photos to put it where I want it. It is now the first thing I see when I launch the app:

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Thank you! You are right 👍🏻

How you do it ? Please share

How you do it ??