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 can do nothing in the photo app now. All o can access is all my photos at once in a grid five photos wide. None of the buttons work. I cannot delete photos. I cannot upload photos. None of the buttons work. I can switch from Years to Months.
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The overall update is amazing, however this picture, album, favorites, movie chaos is the worst move I've seen apple do in an upgrade. I literally can't even find a video that was taken last night. Everything is scrambled and is a serious pain to deal with. With hundreds of thousands spent on apple products, I've never had an issue and love the company but being a long time apple person, its rare to see such a drastic bad move on something so functional, efficient for user ability. Bring it back Apple!
Please bring back our Camera Roll. I can't go thru 27,000 pics to find a picture I chose not to sync to my Mac. Please update this app to include the camera roll asap. If I had known this before,I would have never updated my phone.
i know I complained about this before , but the camera roll being gone , along with import photo option is a major problem. How long does it take typically for apple to resolve something like this ? I thought the last update they may have fixed it but nope !
OMG, my photos are a mess. I offload all my pics, create subfiles for them, and then sync them back using itunes. Now all of my recent and 'unorganized' photos, which was around 100, are scrambled in a block of over 2000 pics and I can't find anything I more than about a week old. PLEASE bring back the camera roll!! My only other choice will be to offload all of organized pics.
Well, it worked. By unsyncing my pics thru itunes I essentially got my camera roll back. Great, except now I don't have the 2000 pics on my phone that I had organized into groups. Bring back Camera Roll!!!
wynford wrote:
11,471 views and 161 comments and almost all of us hate the new Photos app...
Out of how many millions of users?
Will Apple listen to us or keep it the way it is now?
Will Apple revert to the iOS 17 version of Photos? Almost certainly not. Will they continue to make changes in Photos? Definitely. And, you can be assured that when they do, people will be angry that they didn't leave it the way it is now.
IdrisSeabright wrote:
wynford wrote:
11,471 views and 161 comments and almost all of us hate the new Photos app...
Out of how many millions of users?
Millions and millions and millions who probably don't about Apple's community support
freirauf wrote:
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.
If you look at that app, it doesn't say, but it's only a 30 day trial and under settings, at the top it says "Unlock all access" and when you tap that, it's $39.99 per year... USELESS!
wynford wrote:
IdrisSeabright wrote:
wynford wrote:
11,471 views and 161 comments and almost all of us hate the new Photos app...
Out of how many millions of users?
Millions and millions and millions who probably don't about Apple's community support
I think you missed my point. But that's okay.
wynford wrote:
freirauf wrote:
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.
If you look at that app, it doesn't say, but it's only a 30 day trial and under settings, at the top it says "Unlock all access" and when you tap that, it's $39.99 per year... USELESS!
For me as a contractor who uses his phone camera a lot for work (before-after photos, site inspections, phases of customer projects etc. but also tons of screenshots with valuable information) this Utiful app is a life-saver and worth every penny! I love it and use it daily for my work! It helps me keep my work pictures perfectly organized and ready to be references anytime. But it gives me much more in fact because with it I can keep my work pictures physically separated from my family and vacation pics. So in my camera roll I actually have a timeline of all my nice photographs without any clutter at all. Well, I had it, until Apple released iOS 18 and now the Photos app messed it up!!
I already do what you outlined. I create the folders on my desktop in a folder I named "iPhone Pictures" and put the subfolfders in it. When syncing with iTunes, I select the folders I want and they all show in "From My Mac".
I didn't realize that at first. I'm happy to have the folder back, but you are correct it doesn't put new photos in there and I don't see a way to easily move them there. At least I'm "almost" there.
Thank you for the great information! What I'm really trying to figure out is how to turn off the "Library" folder. Is there a way to do that? I don't want every photo since 1996 grouped into one folder (the Library) as it has become following the recent iOS update. I'd prefer to only see the Camera Roll or Recent Photos like before. How can I disable the Library folder?
crecord1 wrote:
Everything in my old recents folder is there. My screenshots show up there. Any photo I add is there.
Could you please use the "" Quote when replying to a comment. It's hard trying to remember what people are replying to with so many comments.
Thanks
Where did the Camera Roll go in iOS 18
