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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 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.
*** EVERYONE Request it to come back here Feedback - Photos - Apple ***
WR4444 wrote:
Same problem. I cannot find camera roll
Put your finger on the photos showing near the top of the screen and drag down. That will change the view to the full camera roll (now called the “library”)
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.
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.
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.
The Camera Roll and the Library are exactly the same thing, and always have been since the beginning of iPhone time 17 years ago. Every picture taken with the camera has always gone into the what is now called the Library.
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
Lawrence Finch wrote:
The Camera Roll and the Library are exactly the same thing, and always have been since the beginning of iPhone time 17 years ago. Every picture taken with the camera has always gone into the what is now called the Library.
If you know someone with an iPhone with iOS 17.6 or older, open their Photos app and you'll see Camera Roll right at the very top, separate from the Library and right above From My Mac
weber88 wrote:
This is not true. The camera roll shows photo taken on the iPhone.
No, that is NOT true unless the screen is locked. It then shows only photos taken since the screen was last locked. The Camera Roll has always shown all photos in the Photos app, regardless of where they came from. And it hasn’t been called Camera Roll for a couple of years. It was renamed to Library.
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.
weber88 wrote:
I have a correction to make. The album is called "Recent" in IOS 17. It use to be called camera roll in the past.
Correct. That's what we have been saying for the last 2 pages.
Camera Roll was changed to Recents several years back, and now it's just Library. Which means Camera Roll went nowhere with iOS 18.
Not sure what's heated about the conversation we've been having though.
Antonia5314 wrote:
No it's not. The camera roll was literally everything you took with the camera and screen shot that had not been moved off the device. No it's "library" which is EVERYTHING, including pictures you moved off the device, added to a folder and added back to the phone. Camera roll and library are two completely different things.
What part do you not understand about the fact that iPhone Photos HAS NOT HAD A CAMERA ROLL SINCE IOS 13, 5 YEARS AGO?
What had been the camera roll because an album called “Recents” as of iOS 14, and continues in iOS 15, iOS 16, iOS 17, and iOS 18.
wynford wrote:
My apologizes to everyone who said Recents... I restored my iPhone 8 and everybody who said Camera Roll was changed to Recents was correct and I was wrong (not intensionally)... I don't know where I got Camera Roll from!!!
Thank you for updating. So we’re not crazy 🤪
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.
Scubachick75 wrote:
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.
Easy. In the Photo app chose to view photos by month. All of the phones for each month will be grouped together.
Or look in the Recents album.
And NO iPhone has had a camera roll for 5 years, since iOS 13, so I don’t get why suddenly this is a problem.
Where did the Camera Roll go in iOS 18
