Edit button missing on my photos in iPhone post iOS 18 update

Yes, thanks Apple. You’ve hidden the editing tools. You’ve moved my albums so I have to scroll down endlessly to get to them. And even the order of recent photos has changed so that now I can’t find anything. WHY?!?!?!?

I am having the same issue. Following your instructions there is no "Extension" to pick.

1. choose the three lines, then go to top and click the 3 dots
2. The only option that is available is "Appearance"
3. When I click on that is shows "System" "Dark" or " Light"

that is it! Edit function is no where to be found.

In iOS 18 Photos, the edit button is the right icon in the cluster of three in the middle at the bottom, below the row of thumbnails. The icon looks like three sliders (three horizontal lines with a circle on each). Do you not see that icon?

With the upgrade to 18.1.1 I cannot edit my photos, when I tap on the three squiggly lines it says it cannot upload my photo.

When I click on the 3 'bubble lines' at the bottom, it see 'Cancel' upper left-hand corner, 'Done' on the upper right-hand corner and "Loading" on the photo and it stays that way until it stops and then reverts to the original photo without the options to edit it.

The three dots at the top give me copy, duplicate, hide, play as a slideshow, add to album, adjust date & time, adjust location.

I am also unable to email myself photos using the Icloud link now; it is stuck on ' Preparing iCloud Link...' and then it fails.

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Why not call the edit function “Edit”? I would like to sort my pictures myself. How to get rid of the albums Recent, People, Pinned connection, Trips?

True. I use both now to edit. Apple made it too complicated.

After a lot of clicking on photos to edit I just found out that if you click 2 times on the 3 dots a little lock 🔒 will come in top of the pic in the right left corner …!! So I clicked on the 🔒and disappeared saying .. “unlocked screen”..!!? or something similar (sorry I can’t remember exactly right now ) but I was able to edit the photo I was working with..!!

so … long story short :

click the 3 dots twice (quickly)

and be at the look out for the little 🔒

the click on it , then when disappears

you should’ve able to exercise the edit function . Is easy, im not god at any of this and if i was able to found a way you will too..!! 👍 good luck 🍀

However I still working on how to understand what they did about my photo gallery … the pics are smaller , I can’t get rid of the ones showing at the button and the distribution of all my pics is unbearable..!!

very disappointed with this new IOS18 Apple has forced us into..!!

I think Apple is having no consideration with the Apple Community. The even emailed me to tell me they were deleting my previous message asking about this problem. I asked why ..!?? I’m still waiting for a response 🤷‍♀️..

Any way for Apple to see the GRIEF they have caused? Do they get feedback and if so where?! What alot of wasted man hours trying to recoup what we had been contentedly using and mastering. All those programmers should be relieved of their jobs. Bring on a new set with ordinary common sense.

Ps: I’m almost 80, a semi professional photographer for many yrs, love the iPhone’s creative possibilities, love the basic editing tools and then onward from there, feel totally worked over by these ‘upgrades’ (it gives the word ‘upgrade’ a new and special meaning)…..

Edit function missing for photos since recent upgrade. Not available when I click the 3 dots. Where is it?

Also, albums now hard to find, lots of unwanted miscellaneous photos that show up below when I go to photos.

I have no option to start a new thread to also complain about this issue so I have to reply here.

Put the edit button back on photos to function as it did before! This is why I dread updates. Why do they have to mess stuff up that we like and isn’t broken?? I want my photo edit button back 😩😩

How do you mean that, bascoconnie?

Tapping the 3 lines does not put you into edit mode?

Tapping the circle with three dots does not offer the Extensions option?

The Extensions list does not offer the app you wanted?

Something else?

bascoconnie, you are looking at the bottom of the screen. Look at the top right of the screen after tapping the three lines. Look for and tap the circle with three dots to get a drop-down menu:

Use the "Extensions" entry in the drop-down menu to get the list of third-party apps you have that are able to edit with the current Photos app.

No guarantee that any specific older app will still work, of course. They have to use the Extension interface these days. PS Express works, for example.

I did the 18.2 update. Mine just shows perpetually loading. I have clicked everything looking for a new way to crop. It lets me enlarge the photo and then offers a crop button but then is once again in a perpetual loading state. Apple fix it! My side hustle is suffering because of it. It will not let me take Live off either. I also like to order my own photos. Please revert back to the old version for older phone users. It makes me want to move to a regular camera - even though this one has great clarity. Then I won’t have to worry about updates messing up my photo editing.