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.
Do you have Background App Refresh turned off? That might be one reason it isn’t making progress. Also, do you leave the phone plugged in overnight, or at least for long periods of time?
LOL, you’ll soon realize Recently Saved is NOT the same as the old Recents/Roll. It doesn’t contain your photos (only SAVED images).
wynford wrote:
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.
Camera app, your library is right there it didn't go anywhere, do some exploring and you'll find it.
I did all last evening and this morning and, like I said, all I could see is Recent Days and it does not show all the photos that should be there. I have 6 photos in the Camera Roll in the third party app and Recent Days only shows (Yesterday) 4 photos. Where are the other 2 photos. I have all the Customize options on. If I want to send someone a photo from a week ago (the missing ones) I can't as I can't find it. The other options in Recent Days are from about 6 months ago and older and I am not going through over 6500 photos to try and find the 2 missing ones.
weber88 wrote:
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 ... ***
I have provided Apple with feedback about how I think the changes to Photos are, so far, some of the things I like best about iOS 18. Photos is gorgeous and so much more flexible.
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.
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.
When I tap that photo in the Camera app and All Photos, just tap on the photo and it'll be enlarged... swipe for more
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
Phil0124 wrote:
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.
You can pinch to zoom in and out to change the thumbnail size.
click here ➜ View photos and videos on iPhone - Apple Support
Or just choose Zoom In from the menu in the lower left corner.
IdrisSeabright wrote:
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.
That's a good theory. Though it would be odd for the update to simply remove custom folders.
Also the screen shots show the albums in list format. On mine they appear as tiles.
Very odd.
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.
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 🤪
not true. it's very different now because those of us that move pictures out of "camera roll" or recents , would normally not have anything in the "library" or camera roll except the pictures taken that were not moved to a folder. I do this for a few reasons, one of which is that I have a backup on my pc of the files but more than that is because that's how I did it originally and if I removed them now, you cannot put the pics back in the 'library' or whatever it's now called.
so i have to leave it like this and now I have a zillion pics in there that I have to scroll through to see the recent pics I took.
if you want to call it recent instead of cameral roll that's fine but that "folder" is needed back to only house the pics recently taken and nothing else. not sure how people can say it's the same its not for us that have files organized differently and that cant change that. I don't want to scroll through 10,000 pics to pull up the one I just took a few minutes ago.
the only work around now is the camera method then click on the pic thumbnails at the bottom but you still can't view them properly you can only scroll left to right,
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I've just tried this on my iPhone 13 and there isn't a small picture in the bottom left corner of the Camera app. If I tap on that (empty) location, I get a blank screen with text in the centre, saying "No Photos or Videos ...". In the top right corner of this screen is an "All Photos" button. Clicking on it, takes me to the Library. Going back to the Camera app, if I take a photo, then the corresponding thumbnail appears in the bottom left corner. When I tap on it, the photo appears. When I go back to the Camera app, the photo is gone and the text "No Photos or Videos ..." is displayed in the top right corner. The new photo is now present in the Library.
I desperately need the Camera Roll aka Recents functionality. As others have said, having the unsorted photos mixed up with photos I've synced from my Mac is useless.
I don't think you understand the issue here, the problem is that in the new Library all of the pictures are mixed together, the camera roll pictures as well as the pictures already synced to albums in our Macs. We need the camera roll back where we could see only the pictures that we hadn't yet synced to the computer. I had pictures there that I hadn't wanted to sync that were from a year ago and now I can't find them because they're mixed in together with all the rest and I would have to go through literally hundreds of pictures to find them. Apple needs to bring the Camera Roll back ASAP!!!!
Where did the Camera Roll go in iOS 18
