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 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.
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 here Feedback - Photos - Apple ***
Even better, just use the built in way. 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”)
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
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.
For the 50th time it’s not the same for us that move pictures off and sync them back! Camera roll or the old recents had everything - photos, screenshots, pictures saved from other places. The only place you get the same group of items is going to camera and clicking in the lower right, but it’s not in a grid. We all just want that back as a folder, not sure why that’s so hard to understand.
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”)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!!!
khuba wrote:
Solution found to the missing "Recents" folder but it cost me $16. I found an app called HashPhotos in the App Store that is a photo viewer that gives me back my "Recents" view from iOS17. I can easily view and delete picture/videos stored on my iPhone that I (1) took using the iPhone camera, (2) saved to photos from emails or texts or (3) screenshots. Never thought I would have to turn to a 3rd party app to give me back baked-in iPhone functionality that was there since day 1.
You should send that as feedback to Apple saying you have to pay for an app in order to use Apple's free Photos app properly like it used to be.
Solution found to the missing "Recents" folder but it cost me $16. I found an app called HashPhotos in the App Store that is a photo viewer that gives me back my "Recents" view from iOS17. I can easily view and delete picture/videos stored on my iPhone that I (1) took using the iPhone camera, (2) saved to photos from emails or texts or (3) screenshots. Never thought I would have to turn to a 3rd party app to give me back baked-in iPhone functionality that was there since day 1.
I also noticed that new photos I take no longer show up in Windows File Explorer when I connect my iPhone to my PC. I see all the iOS 17 pictures taken organized in monthly folders but no new pictures taken since the iOS18 update are there. That is how I get my photos off the iPhone and onto my computer where I keep my master repository of photos, edit videos, etc.
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Using Windows File Explorer has never been an approved way to view or copy photos from an iPhone, and using it can corrupt the Photos database. The database has been reorganized with each iOS version, as other posters have mentioned. And it also doesn’t merge photo files with sidecar files that contain editing data (.aae files). I’m happy to see that Apple has finally taken steps to block this way of seeing inside iOS. Here are the supported ways of copying photos→Copying personal photos and videos from iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to your computer
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
wynford wrote:
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
No. Its been a few iOS versions now, were its called just "Recents". Unless in a different language or locale it's referred to as Camera Roll. In Us English it has been called "Recents" for a while and has always since the days of being named "Camera Roll" included all photos in the library.
My iPhone 11 Pro, with iOS 17.6 shows "Recents" not "Camera Roll"
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.
Where did the Camera Roll go in iOS 18
