I can no longer “search” in photos. For example if I wanted a photo from my photos that had something specific like a pumpkin, I could type in pumpkin and all photos I had with a pumpkin would pop up. Now since the new backup, it no longer does it😖 Anyone else hating the way they changed photos. It’s not user friendly to me AT ALL.
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iPhone 13, iOS 18
Below procedure worked for me so try this:
“The detection process requires iPhone to be locked and connected to power. Depending on what tasks are running in the background and the size of your photo library, the process could happen quickly or take up to a few days to complete”
I was wirelessly charging my iPhone 16 Pro for over 2 weeks and the photo search function still wasn’t working. After coming accross the above information, I used my usbc charging cable and physically charged the phone overnight twice in a row, the search function started working the next morning. So I guess the phone does require to be physically connected to power in order for the phone to learn your large photo library. Hope this helps.
Have you seen my post ref resetting the Location privacy ?
search for Panst ie me and see what I wrote.
I have an iPhone 13 I updated to IOS 18, I restarted. Everything is synced. When I open photos, I go in the upper right corner search, I type in, for example Halloween and usually all of my Halloween photos pop up but I get nothing!
Here was the latest BEST BUYS RESPONSE BLAMES APPLE. THIS IS FROM BEST BUY “I can completely understand your frustration here. While it is not ideal, that is how we would have to process the battery replacement as it is Apple who made this policy.
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Apple sent me to Best Buy to get my battery replaced. I made the appointment a week ago. I drove 45 minutes to Beat Buy and they didn’t have a battery to put in my phone! I then had to drive all the way to an Apple Store for this repair. The above was the response from Best Buy!! Apple should NOT have them as a place to get phones fixed
I also can no longer search properly on my IPhone 13. I am attempting to search captions on photos. Specific search is for the word “Praymates”. While it finds this specific phrase, it does not return all captions that INCLUDE the word “Praymates”. Until recently, the behavior for search has been an include rather than specific. Seems to me that it is a coding error.
I am now using IOS 18.1. There are no Photos app updates that are not installed.
But it actually doesn’t. Mine doesn’t pull up all the photos related to that category, frequently less than 50% of the photos that would come up previously for the same search, and you can’t just look through them in the same way. It’s not as user-friendly or as easy to find a photo as it previously was, nor is comprehensive.
I don’t know why Apple feels it always needs to update things that are really successful into something that isn’t as effective.
im upset about this also, i can no longer search for pictures in my phone like i used to. before if i typed a city name in everysingle picture ive ever taken in that town or city would show up now it only gives me like 25% of the pictures ever taken there. and if i want to find the group of photos i took i now have to find the date and scroll to the date because now the date search doesnt work anymore. why did apple do this? is it becuase they want us to upgrade the phones faster? this ones only less than 2 years old.
I have a brand new 16 pro and lots of photos labeled “Alan’s house “
before on older 11pro max I searched Alan’s house and all showed up 😊NOW I search and literally 3 !!! What the heck ?? I’m charging the phone on usb / this is horrible !!
Apple updated my Photos app on my iPhone 15 pro max without even asking permission.
And now, my favorite feature — the ability to quickly finf (among thousands of photos) specific photo memes by searching for embedded text in the photo — no longer works. It is INFURIATING.
Why did Apple kill this feature?
And why did it completely change the interface to a more cumbersome, user/unfriendly design?
is it possible to delete the app and reinstall the prior version, which had an excellent text-search capability???
This will be my last iPhone if they don’t fix this.
Absolute disaster - I can no longer share my photos with anyone.
so simple and easy before the update - I now have no trust whatsoever in apple.
thanks Apple for my subscription and inability to share or find all my photos
EVERY TIME Apple, or almost ANY App designer does an update, they royally muck things up for the worse. They take the useful things and either eliminate them or make them so obscure, no one can use them anymore. One reason is to make the particular action so it isn't something they can't make money off of. That's where Apple Music, Amazon's many specific fees all arose from. Anything to make, literally, another billion. Another reason is that the coders are out of touch with the end users of their products. In the process of making their OS more User Friendly (Idiot Proof) and right-brained, they take all the logic out of it. Try to store, then find docs or files on an iPad after saving it using the written title app names on the pull down menus, then to retrieve them, find those apps that are not named the same, and could be anywhere, with renamed files for what you saved.
As for the photos, every time I update IOS or sync w/my PC, photos,meven the entire contents of folders disappear on my iPad. Gone for good. The cloud is no better. And with the interface connection changing USB types every other year, thumb drives can't be effectively used on a next gen device...if it worked at all on the first device. It's getting really sloppy and deregulated and we're losing control of it all, with the rich guys at the top making $$$ off of it.
AND...where are the Apple, etc. company's HELP LINES??!! Why do we have to rely on each other for solutions?
It’s amazing how they could mess this up with NEW technology. I love it when Apple decides to create a slide show for me with pictures they pick! I have a whole show with my friend’s husband! Not mine, my friend’s! I’ll type in Palm Desert and get pics from Palm Beach! So annoying
I want my pictures back. I don’t know how much painter to put it. I don’t know what you did with them. I don’t know where they went. I did smoke this app on my phone to begin with. Please get my pictures back. All I have with my grandkids.
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Me too. And before I was able to send a text message and then attach a photo and there would be a search bar and I could search for the photo I wanted that I had actually named and it's not allowing me to do that so I have to send a text message and then go into the photos and search for the photo For the title of the photo that I named it in order to be able to select it and attach it as a text message. Every time they do an update it just sucks even more. And everybody out there is complained forever about the keyboard and they never do anything about the keyboard. I'm over iPhones completely.
Me too - why isn’t apple listening !! We get sucked into a new upgraded phone because “your storage is full” and then we can’t even find what those photos are anymore and it cost us $1,000 to get screwed
Unable to search in my 'Photos App' after new update
