Where did the Camera Roll go in iOS 18

I can do nothing in the photo app now. All o can access is all my photos at once in a grid five photos wide. None of the buttons work. I cannot delete photos. I cannot upload photos. None of the buttons work. I can switch from Years to Months.

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The old 'recents' folder can still be found in the new Photos app. Open Photos, scroll down to 'pinned collections', then select 'recently saved'. This gives same photos / videos that used to be in the old style recents folder.

(If Pinned Collections is not showing, scroll all the way to the bottom and add it via 'Customise & Reorder')

(If 'recently saved' is not showing in the 'pinned collections', then select 'modify' and add it in)

i know I complained about this before , but the camera roll being gone , along with import photo option is a major problem. How long does it take typically for apple to resolve something like this ? I thought the last update they may have fixed it but nope !

You absolutely read zero posts in this thread to make that comment, for those of us that sync photos they’ve removed camera roll/recents and it causes a huge issue for managing photos….. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

OMG, my photos are a mess. I offload all my pics, create subfiles for them, and then sync them back using itunes. Now all of my recent and 'unorganized' photos, which was around 100, are scrambled in a block of over 2000 pics and I can't find anything I more than about a week old. PLEASE bring back the camera roll!! My only other choice will be to offload all of organized pics.

wynford wrote:

11,471 views and 161 comments and almost all of us hate the new Photos app...

Out of how many millions of users?

Will Apple listen to us or keep it the way it is now?

Will Apple revert to the iOS 17 version of Photos? Almost certainly not. Will they continue to make changes in Photos? Definitely. And, you can be assured that when they do, people will be angry that they didn't leave it the way it is now.

wynford wrote:

IdrisSeabright wrote:

wynford wrote:

11,471 views and 161 comments and almost all of us hate the new Photos app...

Out of how many millions of users?

Millions and millions and millions who probably don't about Apple's community support

I think you missed my point. But that's okay.

I found the elusive "Recents" or "Recently Added" folder that I used before the update. Hard to find, but it's there. I don't see "Camera Roll", but I haven't see that in a long time. In the Recently Added I find it has everything I kept in it before and any new photo (even if saved from a text) and screenshots go to the folder just like Library. Now if Apple would let me make it the default folder and hide "Library" I'd be back to where I was before. Look at my post, location highlighted.

I already do what you outlined. I create the folders on my desktop in a folder I named "iPhone Pictures" and put the subfolfders in it. When syncing with iTunes, I select the folders I want and they all show in "From My Mac".

I didn't realize that at first. I'm happy to have the folder back, but you are correct it doesn't put new photos in there and I don't see a way to easily move them there. At least I'm "almost" there.

The "Camera Roll" or "Recents" is in the Camera app. It's in the lower left corner. If you click on the small picture it will enlarge and you can scroll thru all the pictures in the "camera roll". Someone had commented on this feed earlier. Hope this helps.

wynford wrote:

Could you please use the "" Quote when replying to a comment. It's hard trying to remember what people are replying to with so many comments.

What makes it even more confusing is that there are multiple ways of sorting threads. I sort by "Oldest" but I don't think that's the default.