"Recents" Photo Folder not showing every picture?

When you add photos to your Shared Library, they are removed from your personal Library.

You may want to check the Settings on your iPhone, if you have set it to share the photos straight from the Camera, as described here: (How to use iCloud Shared Photo Library - Apple Support)

In that case you will be seeing new photos only in your shared library, not in your personal library.

• Go to Settings > Photos, then tap Shared Library. Tap Sharing from Camera and make sure it's not turned on. 

There is no filter or setting, it is automatic. But, Recents is only a view of your library. Your library will contain all of your images (as will other views populated in Photos).

I'm able to see all of my photos in the Recents album. Try powering down your iPhone and then power it back up again and test.

Do you have a shared photo file? If so top right hand click on the little dude icon and it’ll give you a few options. Click on ‘ personal photo album and then they should appear right away.

Just to be sure - have you compared the numbers of photos below the Recents album and the All Photos album?

Are the numbers of photos and videos identical or not? There are two differences between Recents and All Photos:

• The two albums are sorted differently. Photos from All Photos may be missing in Recents because they are appearing sorted by the date added and not the date taken.
• The All Photos album is also showing My Photos Stream, but Recents is not. If you have been using My Photo Stream, the numbers may differ.

After Photo Stream shut down -- I have duplicated pictures in my photo library, most but not all pictures duplicated and many have 2 copies, not just 1 duplicate AND my recent folder is missing over 2000 pictures compared to the Library. This is on MacBook and iPhone.

Me too. I took a picture. It did first appeared on Recent. On the next day, it mysteriously disappeared from Recent, but fortunately it’s still in the Library. I then connected my iPhone to the PC and accessed it with the Photo App - the missing photo was not found neither!!! Suspect it’s an IOS bug with the latest updates……

Similar. Suddenly over night my recents album removed thousands of photos. They are available in the library, but I only see years old pictures in recents. Messages also pulled from recents, so it’s now less convenient to send pictures that were recently taken.

I have this same issue; over the past month or so, i am missing literally hundreds of pictures. These pictures are not disappearing, but rather, not syncing to the iCloud. I have comical amounts of storage available, and have all of my settings correctly enabled to sync my photos.

of the 22,000+ photos i have in my iCloud, why is it only now that they are having this issue? I am so confused and i wish apple would respond to my feedback submission lmao

BAM!!

Hello!! I took several photos last night at a party and this morning they were all gone. Couldn’t find them. I even thought maybe I was taking pics off someone else’s phone thinking it was mine. I just bought the iPhone 15 Pro Max, I was worried my phone just got rid of those pictures on its own.

After taking some deep breaths, and keeping chill about it, I finally found my pics..in my shared library. Never happened that way before.

Every photo taken appears in Recents. They are all also in your library

Yet it remains that every photo in your library also appears in recents. Check your library for the photos