Edit button missing on my photos in iPhone post iOS 18 update

In iOS 18 Photos, the edit button is the right icon in the cluster of three in the middle at the bottom, below the row of thumbnails. The icon looks like three sliders (three horizontal lines with a circle on each). Do you not see that icon?

OK, guys, edit is sort of still around. The three lines, tap that, and it does appear down there where you can crop the picture, flip it, You can still put Text on a picture so agreed Tap on the three lines at the bottom. I left a crappy reply, saying I couldn’t find it and after reviewing again, I did find edit. It just doesn’t say edit. Three lines click there

bascoconnie, you are looking at the bottom of the screen. Look at the top right of the screen after tapping the three lines. Look for and tap the circle with three dots to get a drop-down menu:

Use the "Extensions" entry in the drop-down menu to get the list of third-party apps you have that are able to edit with the current Photos app.

No guarantee that any specific older app will still work, of course. They have to use the Extension interface these days. PS Express works, for example.

It is still there. Open photo from gallery. You will see an icon with 3 dots at bottom centre of screen. Looks like an abacus. That is the new edit photo icon.

You’re welcome 😉

placorte wrote: "I hate this update with no editing tools..."

placorte ~ Are you sure there are no editing tools?...

Edit photos and videos on iPhone - Apple Support

Crop, rotate, flip, or straighten photos and videos on iPhone - Apple Support

Edit with third-party apps and extensions in Photos - Apple Support

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Thanks for this community as I never would have found the editing option. Dear Apple you need to do better. Take these option and enhancement ideas away from the developers and let them start with users. Developers are playing with . . Oh that would be cool ideas that do not help the user. For those reading and still looking for the editing Photo options, they are buried under the 3 sliding bars icon. Not all Apple users are GenZ and know this stuff intuitively.

Angef1 wrote: "...why no edit button any more on Photos app"

Angef1 ~ Are you sure there's no edit button?...

Edit photos and videos on iPhone - Apple Support

Crop, rotate, flip, or straighten photos and videos on iPhone - Apple Support

Edit with third-party apps and extensions in Photos - Apple Support

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Kjc1981, where are you looking and what are you missing? There are other options on my phone like Adjust (down on the bottom line next to Crop) with many types of adjustment, an icon at upper right for Markup (a pen point in a circle) and another icon beside that (three dots in a circle) that drops down a menu with things like copy/paste edits, undo/redo, and invoke extensions.

Update. I thought I had updated to 18.2 but I guess it hadn’t gone through. Once I did the update, it worked fine.

The edit button is at the bottom now a 3 bars you press that

Julzsez wrote: I found is under the three lines.

Probably looking at markwmsn's picture with the giant arrow pointing at the edit menu was a big help in finding it.

AIRBALA wrote: "I just noticed that Apple removed the editing feature of my photos after my latest update..."

AIRBALA ~ Are you sure Apple removed it?...

Edit photos and videos on iPhone - Apple Support

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RaineyLP wrote: "The sliders are grayed out - will not let me use it. What now?"

RaineyLP ~ Apple says: "If your iPhone isn’t working as expected, you can try restarting it by turning it off, then turning it back on":

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press the three lines at bottom and it comes up.The ones with little circles on them.

After a lot of clicking on photos to edit I just found out that if you click 2 times on the 3 dots a little lock 🔒 will come in top of the pic in the right left corner …!! So I clicked on the 🔒and disappeared saying .. “unlocked screen”..!!? or something similar (sorry I can’t remember exactly right now ) but I was able to edit the photo I was working with..!!

so … long story short :

click the 3 dots twice (quickly)

and be at the look out for the little 🔒

the click on it , then when disappears

you should’ve able to exercise the edit function . Is easy, im not god at any of this and if i was able to found a way you will too..!! 👍 good luck 🍀

However I still working on how to understand what they did about my photo gallery … the pics are smaller , I can’t get rid of the ones showing at the button and the distribution of all my pics is unbearable..!!

very disappointed with this new IOS18 Apple has forced us into..!!

I think Apple is having no consideration with the Apple Community. The even emailed me to tell me they were deleting my previous message asking about this problem. I asked why ..!?? I’m still waiting for a response 🤷‍♀️..