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

Agreed. I also keep about 30k photos on my phone. An easy search like black or white, or sky used to get me in the ball park. Now I get a half a dozen screen shots with the word black and a few shots of skies but all my under water shots appear under that search. Nothing feels relevant for a photographer anymore.

I can’t believe the mess that has occurred from the recent update. I’m an amateur photographer and Apple decided to make finding your photos and albums as complicated as possible. It was fine before, these new categories are useless and create a high level of stress and anger when trying to navigate. What was especially convenient before the update was when duplicating a photo that I wanted to edit, the copy would pop up as the most recent photo in the main album. This was so convenient and a major time saver. Now, however,

the duplicate stays beside the original, so I have to scroll back thru hundreds of pics over and over and over again. Please fix this!

My guy You apparently did not understand that sequence of original photo is imperative as 2BJuis… noted. Floating edits disconnected from originals and labeling them is a primary use for design, engineers, and business related uses.

Many of the new categories serve no purpose if they match none of your photos. And the prior year, month, date without recent was more universal.

This seems to be the right place to add my beef. I sometimes add a group of photos from my PC to my iPad by copying them to the iCloud Photos folder on my PC. Pre-update, these photos would show up in the Recents folder where I could find them and put them in an album. Now, they don’t show up in recently saved. Only some of them show up in maps despite all of them having been geotagged. And as others have noted only a few of them show up in the by day view. I’m having scroll back through the entire collection to manually find the photos. Has anyone found a workaround? The only one I can think of is to upload my photos straight to an album on iCloud.com but that is much clunkier than the iCloud folder. Thanks.

For me it became even worse…

The Siri-commands to run a shortcut now fails completely

And the clean mail-app interfaces was completely destroyed with useless visible elements reducing the space of the characters. A bit like the idiotic big “Destination point” in maps..

I get the feeling of the old days, when updating Microsoft’s windows, costing me again hours/days to recover and refind commonly used interface elements.

Jizkid wrote: "...The Siri-commands to run a shortcut now fails completely..."

Jizkid ~ What model of iPhone is it?...

Settings > General > About > Model Name

And what point version of iOS 18 is it running?...

Settings > General > About > iOS Version

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It’s an iPhone 13 Pro

now on 18.3

Got the mail under control again…

But the shortcuts under siri control do not work anymore. Had some easy shortcuts, e.g. for unlocking my door and switching on the power to my computer.

Probably they changed somewhere somewhat, only unclear what… :)

Jizkid wrote: "It’s an iPhone 13 Pro

now on 18.3..."

Jizkid ~ With your iPhone 13 Pro possibly being over three years old, it's worth checking for a weak, aging battery. So...

Does your iPhone 13 Pro still have its original battery?

And what's the Maximum Capacity % here?...

Settings > Battery > Battery Health & Charging

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It is on 79%..

So closing in on replacement.

For me this does not explain, that

• from yesterday on 18.2 siri shortcut commands worked and today on 18.3 it does not work anymore. According to Occams Razor, the most logical reason is probably the update.
• Siri does work with other commands that are in the Home-App… that is also the answer of Siri, that it does not see the shortcut I want to have executed in the Home app… Was there a change that those shortcut commands should be in the home app? Would be weird wouldn’t it?

Cheers,

Jim

Thanks for that reaction and that idea Alancito, after your questions I expected that kind of a suggestion. But I do not think that is the problem.

It is very unlikely that “some bits” would fall over during such an update, even the weaker battery would not cause a problem like that. Certainly not as the update was while the phone was on main power.

The update process has checks in itself that would warn if something would have gone wrong, and would certainly have warned if battery power was too low. On Reddit I also see that the 18.3 is a buggy release.

Anyway thanks very much for your support and thinking along with me in this problem.

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.

Yes, I would truly hate it if they undo the vastly improved photos app, and I have provided feedback THANKING them for replacing the old, brain-damaged Photos app. Speaking of undoing technological advances, we could also go back to using IBM PCs with MS-DOS.

I am a filmmaker, since 2007 iPhone user, and I have something like 78k ‘items’ in the photos app. Navigating this new photos app and it’s god awful design is an unmitigated disaster. It would take me less time to return to Italy and reshoot than to find an image I shot there in 2014. Please do something good with this

PLEASE APPLE, stop fixing it if it ain’t broke?

This new update has messed up everything.

No more unnecessary changes.

Stop changing apps that already work well.

The EMAIL update is worse or equal to

the PHOTOS update & something changed

in CALENDARS that has messed me up 3 times for appointments I’ve had and missed.

PLEASE FIX these and go back to the OLD VERSIONS!

Whatever changes Apple made either added new features, or fixed things that many users complained were “broke” (meaning they wanted it to work differently). You are saying that anyone who doesn’t have exactly the same needs and desires as you should be ignored and not get what they want?

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.