Library items list missing all Photos

Have you also tested in another user account, if the problem is isolated to your current user account or system wide? Log into another user account as described here: How to test an issue in another user account on your Mac - Apple Support

• Launch Photos on a new, small test library and check, if the "Photos" item is there.

If Photos is working on anther user account as it should, the Photos Preferences file may be corrupted.

and removing the following folder may help: ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Photos/

To delete the Photos preferences files:

• Quit Photos, if it is running.
• Open your user library in your home folder:

Delete the complete folder ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Photos/ and restart the Mac, then try again. Your user library may still be hidden.

• To reveal the hidden User Library:
  • Bring the Finder forward by clicking on the Desktop or the Finder icon in the Dock.
  • Select your user/home folder (with the house icon in the Finder sidebar)
  • With that Finder window as the front most window, press the key combination ⌘J to bring up the View options.
  • In the View options panel enable ’Show Library Folder’. That will make your user library folder visible in your Home folder, if it is still hidden.
  • Open your Home folder, then the Library folder, then Containers.
  • Move the complete folder ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Photos to your desktop. Move the entire folder, not just the contents.
• While you are about it, delete also ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Photos.plist

Restart the Mac and try again.

After you deleted the ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Photos/ and preferences, Photos will not remember the location of the library and the preferences you set. You will have to select the library in your Pictures folder and double click it to launch Photos on your library.

Boot into Safe Mode  and check the library from there. Does the problem persist?

NOTE: Safe Mode boot can take up to 10 minutes as it's doing some system cache cleaning, volume verifying and directory repairing. 

Thanks for your reply léonie.

Unfortunately didn't work with new user account and following the steps to clean preferences and container neither.

I still not having Photos tab as shown in picture.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks in advance

Nothing in my recently deleted (invisible since empty). Deleted and image and Recently deleted appears with the image in it. Deleted the image and recently deleted folder disappears as usual.

There is only one library. Also deleted the local library, had Photos create a new one and let is sync from my iCloud. The photos tab is still missing.

Thank you for your insight.

What do you have in the Recently Deleted album?

Also if you open Photos with the option key held down is there more than one library listed in the open window?

I am having the same issue on one my older MacBook Pro.

Did you solve this question? It happens to me too.

Already boot in safe mode but nothing changes.