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.
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:
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
Completely agree, it’s awful. I need to be able to see my camera roll I use it for all sorts of stuff like screenshots and photos that I don’t necessarily need to keep. I sort through it monthly delete the crap then sync my photos I want to keep on my Mac to folders.
My mum had a brain haemorrhage 3 years ago and is just starting to use her phone again, just as she’s getting to grips apple do this NOT HAPPY 😡
I need this back ASAP. The way I use photos is completely broken now. I need a place to see all photos that are on my iphone and have not yet been transferred off my device.
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Lawrence Finch wrote:
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?
There are 4 icons at the bottom of the screen... did you try each one... I could send a screenshot, but I would have to restore my old iPhone 8 and that would take a while... but I did find a picture, showing an actual Camera Roll, there's lots of them... all iOS's had it up until 18.0. If you still want to see a screenshot, let me know and I'll restore my iPhone 8
That is not correct! I move pictures off my phone to my laptop and then sync them back into folders. The camera roll/recents contained everything I have not synced back. The library is now just EVERYTHING, there isn't a way to differentiate between what is on the phone and what has been synced back, it's all together. Many of need the functionality of the old camera roll/recent for the way we organize things.
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.
Well said.
Lots of people are reporting here that the Recents (aka Camera Roll) functionality has disappeared from the Photos app with iOS 18. Others are stating that it has not. Assuming that we are all rational beings, there must be an explanation for these different perceptions. I think that the most likely explanation lies in the different ways people use the Photos app. For example, some people sync their photos to iCloud, while others (including me) do not. This would result in differing user experiences. Similarly, some people sync some of their photos from their Macs (or other devices) to their phones and others do not. That too would result in differing user experiences. There may be yet other differences in the use of the Photos app which would affect this issue.
The bottom line, however, is that for a sizeable number of users iOS 18 (including me) has introduced a catastrophic change. Some people on this forum report that they have found a workaround, using the Camera app. Unfortunately, this does not work on my phone (as I have mentioned earlier). I have no idea why.
I could not disagree more. The "Library" is the dumping ground of both photos in the "camera roll" and pictures synced from my Mac. The only way I have found so far to only see the photos on my iPhone's "camera roll" is to look at them via the Camera application (lower right hand corner). Apple, you task me!!!!
khuba wrote:
I could not disagree more. The "Library" is the dumping ground of both photos in the "camera roll" and pictures synced from my Mac. The only way I have found so far to only see the photos on my iPhone's "camera roll" is to look at them via the Camera application (lower right hand corner). Apple, you task me!!!!
Very strange. I use the Camera app as suggested, and I see photos that were taken, but also that were imported from other sources.
khuba wrote:
Apple, you task me!!!!
Other than the fact that you're demanding something from Apple, I have no idea what that means.
Apple doesn't read here for feedback or suggestions. You can, however, let them know your thoughts here:
True they stopped calling it the Camera Roll long ago then started to call it "Recents" within the "My Albums" area and it would always be at the top left when you launched the Photos app. Now in iOS18 the first thing presented is a useless blast of photos. To get past that to the organized stuff you need to scroll down but no longer is there a "My Album" area with all the photos taken/stored on the phone, instead there is an "Albums" area with nothing in it (on my phone at least). There is a "Recent Days" area, but again that is a mix of pictures taken on the phone and pictures synced from my Mac/PC separated by day. Also, I notice as I take new photos with my iPhone they are not being added to the "Recent Days" view. That is odd.
Bottom line is, I think a lot of people complaining like me have a workflow that has been up-ended by the new Photos app. As usual Apple has optimized their photos app to serve lemmings that upload their photos to iCloud and trust Apple to organize everything on their iPhone. Not me. My photos mean too much to me.
Where did the Camera Roll go in iOS 18
