How can I find my Camera Roll Photos on iOS 18?

I think the OP means the default album that photos taken with the camera used to go to by default.

The navigation is a mess, the customisation that apple are hiding behind, even when simplified to its basic level is still nowhere near as easy to navigate as the tabs at the bottom of the screen. I have spent years extolling the simplicity of Apple to friends and family. I cannot explain to my 79 year old parents where to find the things they love as Apple has arbitrarily decided they know better than their users as to how photos should appear and be categorised. My 11 and 14 year old daughters hate it, my parents can’t use it and I hate it. Apple has become an organisation that thinks it knows better than its customers.

Camera Roll became Recents and it has been the default location for all pictures taken, receipts/documents scanned, and screenshots. This is what has gone completely away and now everything is jumbled into 1 huge mess. It’s a complete atrocity and now we have to jump through hoops to do a half—assed workaround that doesn’t bring back what was already there. Very dumb of the coders and engineers…

Another thing that might help (or not), on the main screen of the photos app (this is on iOS) if you click on your profile picture in the top right hand side you can switch off some things which i personally find irritating. Autoplay motion can be switched off, as can show featured content (which seems to be content which Apple has decided to be featured rather that things you’ve selected)

Going back to what was the people library; I can’t find a way to stop it autoplaying a roll on 60% of the screen of the person I am looking for, but I did manage to delete all of the “Groups” which again, Apple has arbitrarily decided which people in group photos should be grouped together. Unfortunately, having deleted those groups we are still left with a wasted 25% of screen real estate telling us we have no groups.

To be honest this smacks of a company trying to find something for the upcoming AI to do. Trying to find a problem for a solution if you will, not unlike what Microsoft did with copilot and their photos app.

This is on my iPad, but I think it's the same on the iPhone. In the Camera app, if I click on the tiny picture icon that represents the last picture, I get this:

It shows the entire Library as a Camera Roll.

To me, the Library and Recents have always been more useful.

I don’t believe there has been a separate ‘camera roll’ album in quite some time.

At least there wasn’t if you’re using iCloud Photo Library.

Are you?