Best photos app replacement for IOS 18

The changes to Recents do only matter for those users who prefer the manual syncing of photos and videos to the syncing with iCloud Photos. The manual syncing has always been somewhat restrictive, because the synced photos are stored separately and cannot be deleted directly on the device. They have been treated as second class item all along.

The upgrade to iOS 18 has made the limitations for manually synced items worse - the new Recents albums do no longer double as a camera roll and the synced albums in in "From My Mac" are having new issues and are no longer visible when trying to share photos to some apps.

None of this is an issue, when we are using iCloud Photos for syncing the photos between or devices - then all photos and albums are equal and there are no longer "second class" manually synced photos complicating things. Photos on iOS 18 has clearly been designed to be used with iCloud Photos for syncing. If you do not want to go down this road, you really need to find a replacement app.

Done that many times.

They never fix things they ruin though, so looking for alternatives.

Also, if write about the alternative I found for the Mac, or that I’d create an alternative myself if I had the time, then suddenly my session is expired and I can’t save the reply…

Any news with regards to a replacement app?

Some of the things that drive crazy.

1. Browsing, it keeps jumping to a different image folder.
2. Duplicating items, places them next to the original when the sole reason was to compile a list that can be looked at, forwarded and again deleted. This is particularly usefull when manually adding image folders to the iphone. Since images are now defaulting by initial date created rather than date added files remain hidden somewhere, just that there are now at least two of those. This can be somewhat remedied by adding files to a new folder, rather than duplicating.
3. I could hand my phone to my 3 year old niece for her to scroll through images, since the update it constantly jumps to the info mode, this is not only frustrating to my niece it is also frustrating to myself.
4. The white border around.
5. The sheer number of useless albums on display.
6. The photo/movie mode.
7. Opening a manually added folder with a large number of images, to get to the most recent images added there is no simple way to scroll to those, fastest being to minimise display scroll to bottom then zoom in again. On the old app you could click a button (album I believe) and would get taken to the most recent image.
8. There is no doubt a few more that don't come to mind. What does come to mind is the constant frustration I experience every time I am using the new app. It's a bloody phone with a tiny screen and doesn't need a million buttons, folders or options.

That's about all for now, if anyone finds a better app that makes it easy to go through images, including manually imported ones shot with different cameras, perhaps for the purpose of posting them to social media that would be really great.

And just for a reference I have 15 manual Photo Folders on my iphone one folder for every year since 2010 containing 14289 images shot with DSLR's, with another folder to be added for 2025 shortly.

In total my phone contains 25160 Photos.

Many thanks

Marcus

marcusbastelphoto

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THANK YOU. Ive been looking for another photographer in here! You have my thoughts exactly and I really do hope that this 'endless scroll feature' for albums goes away soon

Smart move. I wish I had known to do this. Now I’m stuck with the “new” Photos format that appears to have been designed by a 5th columnists from Android.

Joseph Www wrote:

That is probably why that mass of photos appears in a random order regardless of how you press that Sort button.

The Library is ordered by either Recently Added or Date Captured. You have the option of ascending or descending.

e it does, and more. Might do it differently, but it does. I'm sure if you take the time to try it out even you will figure it out.

And again: Further I'm not telling anyone to use it. I was asked to name an alternative. I did.

No iOS app available? What on earth is this?

https://apps.apple.com/ie/app/lightroom-photo-editor/id878783582

or here

https://www.adobe.com/ie/products/photoshop-lightroom/mobile.html

Or what is that app on my iPhone and iPad? Gee I dunno. Is that it on my AppleTV too?

Further I'm not telling anyone to use it. I was asked to name an alternative. I did.

Joseph Www wrote:…Its ability to see the Recent (Camera Roll) photos as an album was removed.

Of course, you could just sort the Library by Recents.

Seems just as good as Recents to me…

There is no replacement app available. Basically it matters to everybody that's the whole point of the complaints here. The Yer man suggestions do not help the complaints as they are written.

Darkroom is not free, only "free" to try.

Then stop telling people to use an app when you are well aware there is no iOS app available.

Adobe Lightroom does not do what the old photos app does in ios17 and before. It is not helpful to suggest people use something that is different.

Adobe Lightroom is not really free, and it is not a good replacement.