Unable to search in my 'Photos App' after new update

Thought it was just me ~ I've got over 40,000 images that I've shot since 2010, and trusted iphoto to keep cataloged for me for almost 15 years. I was always amazed at how intuitive this software was, bringing up images that I'd often forgotten, and always reliable when it came to showing PLACES, which as a professional photographer was a key for me to organizing my images shot with my camera. As others have mentioned, of all the things to mess around with, why iPhoto?!?

Exactly this whole thing is a disaster. I can search for photos from Halloween and I will get 300 photos that have absolutely nothing to do with Halloween. Or then I’ll say hey let’s look up videos taken in Florida. And then it will yield no results OK so then I freak out I’m like did my update delete all 20,000 of my videos. I don’t even know where to find them anymore. It’s insane. This is ridiculous. This is only the photos let’s talk about text messaging. I can legit type out an entire text message And it will no longer yield any results whereas before I could have typed in the first three letters and it would’ve popped up or contacts say my name is Bob. I’m searching contacts for BOB. I have to scroll down for about 10 seconds past everything that has anything not to do with BOB to find the actual BOB I’m wondering if this is maybe just a glitch on my iPhone is this somebody playing a joke on me because I can search my iPhone for contact and it doesn’t even have it in there but when I click contacts and then scroll through manually, I find the same contact that I just searched for that yielded no results This is all Siri talk to text greater example added to this platform here but I’m saying all these updates are doing damage they are destroying the already good things that were. I am about to go back to my Nokia flip phone or something or whatever because I feel like I am on acid every single time I open my photo app.

I’m here for the same reason as everyone else. After an update, search photos is hit-and-miss. I rely on this function and am devastated to lose it. I’m hoping it re-indexes over time but it’s been a couple of days. Why break this function, Apple?

This is my first iPhone and I think I’m going to go back to Android next time I upgrade. iPhone has less functionality in general (for instance, you can’t do split screen to outsmart YouTube’s limitation on multitasking while playing music) but every time I find a gem like this search photos feature, which allowed me to search which meme I wanted to attach/post, it ends up getting ripped away.

It did not help at all! I’ve been a die hired Apple product user all my life but after this last update and ruining everything about photo search/ layout- I think I am finally ready to go to an android! I pay thousands of dollars each year to go backwards with every update!

I charge my phone nightly with the cable so ughh I don’t know if this will work for me. I hope Apple is working on changing this cause that was the best part of the photos/search function!

anyone else have any solutions?

That’s been so frustrating. I’m in a photo app searching for a specific thing and it only gives me text matches. I’m not searching for the word ____(whatevr) I’m actually searching for a picture of that.

Yep same as. Even before I updated to iOS 18.4 the search function wasn’t working- not even for albums. I have most of my photos in albums and it works intermittently. Try to search for some albums and it won’t work at all so I have to scroll down through the list to find the album I want. They say a smart phone like the iPhone 13 has more sophisticated tech than the Apollo 11 rocket that put a man on the moon- not seeing it if it can’t carry out a basic search function!!!

Yep same as. Even before I updated to iOS 18.4 the search function wasn’t working- not even for albums. I have most of my photos in albums and it works intermittently. Try to search for some albums and it won’t work at all so I have to scroll down through the list to find the album I want. They say a smart phone like the iPhone 13 has more sophisticated tech than the Apollo 11 rocket that put a man on the moon- not seeing it if it can’t carry out a basic search function!!!

I immediately noticed this upon my first search. I kept putting off the update up until today, and I’m highly disappointed after doing so. Honestly wish I would've just waited until a version where the SEO bugs in the Photos app were fixed. This definitely taught me a lesson: I will never update the software version without allowing it to be running long enough for there to be information on what kind of potential bugs that version of iOS has.

The photo search option was probably my favorite feature on my phone. Sometimes it wants to work others it doesn’t. Doesn’t matter if it’s plugged in, on WiFi, not plugged in, not on WiFi it has randomly working and not working since the new IOS. I hate it. Apple you legit ruined my favorite thing about my phone.

Hi I’m on 18.4 version. I’ve tried everything you have suggested and to no avail. I try to search for Pool or Gym as I’ve done many times before and I get big fat Zero! This new version is such a backwards step it’s untrue. Apple do your due diligence and test test test before going live.

when is this going to be resolved ? I’m from the UK

I shouldn't have to go to the trouble of resetting my phone and going through all of that! Apple should do a better job of vetting their programs before they release them.

I am so tired of the lack of caring as far as checking everything out before new releases and then having to turn around and do three more updates just to try and fix the problem that they created for lack of due diligence. If anything ever happens to my iPhone, I am definitely never going back to an apple product.

The keyboard has been terrible for years and nobody has done anything about ii even though continual criticism continued to be given.

I resent the fact that I have to reset my phone just to make it work the way that it did before Apple messed it up.

How do I use the photos app today? Nothing works. Search the name of a ‘person’ and the results delivered are photos of featuring the name spelled within the photo. Search Johnnie and what comes back is a photo where you can read J O H N N I E written on a page in a notebook within a photo.

not long ago I could find a photo by name and activity by typing name and activity. Today, not even close. Each Photos NAME album has been split up into multiple folders and not identified as the same person. This is awful awful, I cannot find a photo in less than an hour! So frustrating.

I updated my phone when I purchased it a week ago. The photo search worked as always with the word "ask" replacing "search." Two days ago "ask" disappeared and "search" is back. Now when I search my photos by name I get the message to "try searching by a different name." I am slightly peeved!!! I take photos of the dogs at a rescue and use them in our adoption apps. Now when I search for the dogs by name they are not there!