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
I found it... I re-read razmee209 first reply to me and he said Camera app.
Open the Camera app and in the bottom left corner is a small picture beside the click button, tap on that small picture, once opened, it doesn't say Camera Roll, which would be helpful if it did, and all the Camera Roll pictures are there and if you tap the All Photos at the top, your entire library would show.
It'll take time to get used to it after all the years the Camera Roll was in Photos.
I found this and it seems very good... in Photos you can see Camera Roll and Screenshots and Wallpaper and your entire Library... you can download photos to your PC as well as upload to your iPhone and lots more... and there's a free giveaway... it's called Winx MediaTrans for PC and there's a Mac version as well
This won't help many people but it lets me re-create the Camera Roll/Recents/or whatever it was called.
TLDR: If your use-case matches mine (below) then the quickest way to get at the pics that used to be in Camera Roll/Recents/Whatever is to search for "iPhone" in Photos and this will find only photos taken on an iPhone because the camera name goes in the meta-data of the images. I appreciate that this won't help most people here cos my use-case is a bit odd.
My use-case is that I only use the iPhone camera for snapshots/convenience. Say a product label if I want to buy something or an amplifier wiring before I take it apart or a quick scan of a document that I might need or a baking disaster to share with mates in the pub. Just temp stuff that I might or might not need to keep but can't be bothered to delete. These don't get synched to my Mac or to the cloud or anywhere - they reside only on the phone and should I want to keep them then I import them to the Mac, delete them from the iPhone and add them to the set of folders that get synched to the iPhone from my Mac . Then, I have a number of cameras that I use to take photos I want to keep that will go in my database and these synch between Mac and iPhone via Finder and USB. I also have a bunch of scanned photos going back to the 1960s which are also synched between Mac and iPhone via Finder and USB. These pics are all tagged with the camera or scanner model so they don't show up in the "iPhone" search.
I don't think it matters, but note also that I don't use Photos on Mac. I use a semi-pro image management programme that better meets my needs. When I do import pics taken on an iPhone I can easily change the camera from iPhone to something else so that it doesn't appear in the "iPhone" search described above.
Lawrence - before iOS18 there was a thing in Photos called Recents that I could hit and see only the pictures that I had taken with my iPhone. None of the other pictures, synched from my Mac, could be seen - they were in a different set of folders called "From My Mac". Some users, including me, clearly found this very useful.
This folder called Recents is no longer there. There is a folder called "Recent Days" which has every photo on my phone inclucing those synched with my Mac - which is not useful for me. The Library also includes every picture on my phone. There is now no way to easily isolate the pictures taken on my iPhone from all my other pictures and this is a bit of a pain for me and the way I use my iPhone photos. The camera roll in the Camera app replicates this with the important exception that the thumbnails are only visible as a single row, not a grid, which makes it much less useable for people like me who use iPhone and Photos the way we do.
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. 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.
Last Saturday I took about 8 pictures, only 2 showed in "Photos"
I had to search online in this support thread to see that pictures that fail to show in correct place are able to be seen once I open the camera, and then tap on the lower left corner photo thumbnail, then poof magically all the pics that should be in "Photos" are all right there, present in the Camera app, thumbnail view, and I can scroll horizontally to see them. Apple took the liberty to take away "camera roll" just rename it back to that. It benefited nobody to change the name. and if I am wrong then why are so many people looking online for help? Anyway.... Apple will eventually change this around... again. I am happy to see I am not the only one dealing with this. TLDR - Look in Camera app for any pics not showing in "Photos" Apple, admit it, you goofed on this one.
9786 wrote:
Apple please allow clarity to prevail again - as before.
Apple doesn't read here in this user-to-user forum for feedback or suggestions. You can, however, let them know your thoughts here:
The Utiful Photo Organizer app is a quite good alternative because it a) is very easy to use, b) allows you to move photos out of the camera roll to separate folders, so that the photos disappear from the camera roll (yay!), and c) lets you sync your photo folders between your iOS devices.
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.
Where did the Camera Roll go in iOS 18
