Unable to navigate my photos in the Photos app on my iPhone after iOS 18.1.1 update

You can, of course, still search by date. And, you can view photos by date in recent days.

Camera role with search by date is critical to many of us with study collections needed to get a sequence of photos in sequence taken on a single day. Recent Days is irrelevant and useless.

There are standard systems for photo or image search for just such use. The 18.1.1 renders them all impossible for future.

Photos with camera role made creating useful search an open system flexible for many applications that are now jumbled in unusable form.

Jizkid wrote: "...I looks almost like an Android machine. (Hopefully this triggers the techies in Apple to take the lead again.)"

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atlcycle wrote:

They could easily undo what they did...they are choosing to not do it. Guessing customers like us don't have enough influence.

Have you told Apple what you'd like to see?

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Only if you can remember the date you took them - and even then, when you select a date in the library you get a curated view - i.e. not all the pics from that date, just some subset decided by the App.

I took a pic of a wine label sometime in the last couple of years. I've no idea when - not even the month. The way I use the Photos with the old Photos it would have been on the in the first two or three screens of Recents. I might have taken 1000 pics since then, which, in the old phots would not have been in Recents, but in the new one will all appear in the library and I could spend an hour standing in the supermarket scrolling to find the pic of the wine label.

Those of us complaining clearly use Photos very differently from you. I simply don't understand how you can use Photos without a Recents folder, but you can and that's great for you and I'm sure that the new Photos is an upgrade for you and I wouldn't dream of telling you how to use the app. I know that we're stuck with it and I've got a a work-round I can live with, but until you really understand why the loss of Recents is important to a bunch of people then you need to stop suggesting that the current Photos can replicate with a bit of customization and learning it because I don't think it can. If you know a way** to view all the pics that I've taken with the iPhone camera and not downloaded, put in a Mac folder, deleted from the phone and synched back to the phone from Mac then it would be great to hear it.

**The camera roll in the Camera app does it but either as a row of unusefully small icons which cannot be managed or an image at a time, so it's of very limited use.

Joedirthair wrote:

I HATE the way it’s set up. Just today it’s putting the photos taken today on some new folder called “Recent Days” and yet only some of those photos. Also show in the general all photos file. Like what is even going on? Who thought any of this would be helpful? I wound up taking about 10 pictures of the same thing because I thought it wasn’t working.

Of course, all of your photos are in your library likely in date order of date captured or recently added (whoever you choose to uses to sort). And those items are hanging out right above Recent Days.

but, what specifically? You can search by date. Recent dates, includes photos by day. You can sort the photos.

Thanks for the tips, I’ll look later, but it’s infuriating to change people’s platforms without choice or warning. I’m getting fed up with iPhone which seems back to the old days when they were totalitarian.

In the middle of my livelihood, a project using scads of pics and all of a sudden I have to stop, to relearn everything.

I took 7 photos and only 2 showed up. Where did the rest go? So frustrating.

Decided to ‘play with it a bit’ and finally managed to locate some specific pictures I was looking for (don’t ask me how I found them…by luck and a prayer it seemed some sort of grouping magically populated) then, regretfully, I decided to exit the group/day/album (again…not sure where I ended up or how) to cross reference these pics with others I knew I had favorited… and poof! Whatever grouping had populated was gone. Try as I might, I could not find that grouping or get it to re-appear.

WTF?!?! The new photos configuration is ridiculous, random, unintuitive and overall 100% frustrating!!!

How do I undo this part of the update??

No, they’re not. I’m on holiday and have been taking photos every day. My “recents” include Sunday and then today (Friday) with no images in between.

THANKFULLY they are showing on my iPad, but those missing days are mirrors when I log into iCloud.

it’s utterly infuriating.

Let’s over complicate the beauty of IPhones simplicity. DISASTER x10. Hundreds of Apple employees had to agree on this chaos… I’m perplexed & fear what simple interface they choose to make un-user-friendly next. Google is sounding like an a realistic option for my next phone. Baffled, for real.

I spent the weekend moving all my photos to the windows 11 laptop I had planned to replace in a migration to Apple or had until 18.1.1. I am still looking for a solution. The photos color quality and detail lost in transition. Color and fatal are critical for my use. My advice is to try some options, free or short term, to test image quality. Befuddling decision by Apple.

One thing I am hating is the fact that all photos are not saving to one big library anymore.

Why would anyone want anything saved from insta, snap, WhatsApp to go into a separate little file. For example I edit one pic save it. I’d obviously want it directly next to the original.

It’s impossible to find what I need because now my older pics aren’t downloading quickly from iCloud either. I started to get used to this update but now I just feel really unorganised. It’s stressful. Who on earth thought this was a good idea

I do so agree with you.... it is an absolute disaster.

And the search for rightly made pictures, heavily interferes with the efficiency in my work.

Previously I could blindly have trust in the photo's app and now it is getting a real hindrance and efficiency breaker. And it does not become better, each time again I bump in to strange behaviour of the app.

I looks almost like an Android machine. (Hopefully this triggers the techies in Apple to take the lead again.)