I do NOT like what Apple did to the Photos in iOS 18... I can not find the Camera Roll. Closest is Recent Days, but it does not show all the pictures that were on the Camera Roll. I have to use a third party app on my PC to see the photos. I think Apple screwed up somewhere. Come on Apple, put Camera Roll back the way it used to be and the way it should be.
iPhone SE, iOS 18
Your library is the camera roll. What was called "Camera Roll" was changed to "Recents" in a past iOS update (forget which one) and has now dropped that name and is just your Library.
Any picture you take will be in your library, and as such that is your camera roll.
I don't believe there has ever been a separate Camera Roll to the general library. It was just called "Camera Roll" but contained the same things Library does now.
I found it!
There is a “Pinned Collections” session in the Photo app (scroll down a bit) where “Recently Saved” photos are.
You can change the Photos app configuration to bring it to the top.
Tony in Ottawa wrote:
The Camera App shows all the photos in the camera roll but only in tiny little thumbnails. Would be better if the thumbnails were bigger and also available in the Photos App.
If you want them to be larger rather than tiny thumbnails, after dragging down to switch to Library/Camera Roll view, tap on the up/down arrow icon in the lower left, then View Options, then Zoom In.
I found this by trial and error, but it took less time to find it than the time to compose this post.
wynford wrote:
Phil0124 wrote:
Your library is the camera roll. What was called "Camera Roll" was changed to "Recents" in a past iOS update (forget which one) and has now dropped that name and is just your Library.
Any picture you take will be in your library, and as such that is your camera roll.
I don't believe there has ever been a separate Camera Roll to the general library. It was just called "Camera Roll" but contained the same things Library does now.
17.6 still showed Camera Roll in the Photos app.
My very recent photos do not show up in the Library.
The Recents do not show ALL my very recent photos, only a couple, but they all show up in the Camera app
17.6.1 does NOT show Camera Roll anywhere in my Photos app on an iPhone XS. Nowhere, nohow. My choices when I tap Library are Years, Months, Days, All Photos. And my very recent (5 seconds ago) photo shows up in All Photos and also in the Recents album.
Can you post a screenshot?
Is it possible that what you're seeing are two albums you created and named that? Photo Stream, as an actual Apple service has been gone for a long time.
I've updated my iPhone but not my iPad. There is no "Camera Roll" anywhere in Photos.
My internet research indicates that Apple removed "Camera Roll" with iOS 13. Actually, they removed it with iOS 8 but added it back for a while.
Antonia5314 wrote:
I couldn't agree more. While the new photos app is ok in itself, removing the camera roll was the worst decision someone ever made! I want to see what is in my camera roll and only my camera roll! I don't want to hunt through hundreds of photos I sync'd over to my phone. I want to see what is in my camera roll only. And the only way I see this possible, is by literally removing any photos from the phone that are not in the camera roll. No more saved albums with my favorite photos if I want to be able to find what's in the camera roll.
You can certainly let Apple know what you'd like to see here:
m1237 wrote:
They are the same thing only if you never sync your photos to your computer, otherwise they are most definitely not. For us who do sync our pictures to the computer, the "camera roll" or "recents" folder only kept the pictures taken on your phone that had not yet been synced. For people who sync not being able to have those pics separate can be a real issue.
Trying to convince Mr. Finch that you're right and he's wrong is rather pointless. He can do nothing to change the way Apple has decided to do things.
This is what I've submitted via Feedback - Photos - Apple :
Prior to iOS 18, the Photos app provided a folder called "Recents" where a user could review the photos they'd taken using that phone (as well as photos saved from messages, screenshots, etc) in order to decide which to keep, which to upload to their Mac, etc. In iOS 18, the Photos app lost that functionality. The photos described above are shown mixed up with photos synced from other sources, making it impossible to do the triage. I cannot overstate the seriousness of this loss of functionality.
At https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255760698, I see that there's a clumsy workaround in the Camera app. This doesn't work on my iPhone.
Note: I don't use iCloud Photos. I sync selected photos from our Mac to my iPhone.
> The iOS version drop-down below doesn't include iOS 18.
Your post helped me.
about 7 pictures I took yesterday were not in Photos
but if I open camera and tap thumbnail in bottom left corner. There they are.
apparently many people are experiencing this issue which means Apple will fix in next update.
thanks for posting that idea (finding recents through camera app)
Apple get on the ball
gow did this squeak through Q and A testing.
Zurarczurx wrote:
Apple has removed/changed the Recents functionality and that's why users are complaining. The fact that you don't understand why this is a pain probably means that your use-case for the iPhone and the Photos is different from mine and other users.
Have you complained to the only people who can go anything about it?
It doesn't mean that users who are pointing out that a major part of the Photos app functionality has been taken away are wrong and should be scolded for complaining about it.
After a certain point, yes, it's kind of silly for people to be complaining here. We've long since past that point.
Jackie4nier wrote:
Yeah, the Photos app needs the Camera Roll back. The way it's set up now makes no sense at all. Why are just two of the photos I took today only showing up in Recent Days but not in the Library where the rest of the photos I took today are showing up??? Why doesn't it just put them all in the same place now?
No one here in this user-to-user forum would know the "why" behind what Apple does.
You can let Apple know your thoughts on the matter here:
Library is NOT equivalent to the previous camera roll. Library contains EVERYTHING now, including synced albums/photos. Whereas the previous Roll/Recents did not. The Library has become unwieldy with 100,000 synced photos.
This is not true. The camera roll shows photo taken on the iPhone. Library shows all photos in photos such as photos synced from my Mac and shared albums
I personally use the Utiful Photo Organizer app.
Just found out if you scroll to the bottom and tap customize and reorder you can remove the items and folders you don’t want restoring things back to normality
Where did the Camera Roll go in iOS 18
