Have just updated to iPad OS18 on my iPad Mini 6 and photo thumbnails are tiny! They can be enlarged, but only temporarily. How can I get them to stay a decent size so I can actually see them?!
Thanks in advance for any advice!
iPad mini 6, iPadOS 18
I went to the bottom of my IPad 10. Tapped the arrows and zoomed to 3 across. Mine is staying at 3 when I close the app and re-open.
I went to the bottom of my IPad 10. Tapped the arrows and zoomed to 3 across. Mine is staying at 3 when I close the app and re-open.
I just expanded the screen with my finger and thumb until I got three photos across and it has stayed that way.
Steps to adjust the number of thumbnails on the screen.
ronaldfromukiah wrote: There are no arrows at the bottom of my photo app screen.
Perhaps you're not looking at the Library screen. When you first open Photos in looks like this:
which is the Photos screen, as you see at the top. Above here is the Library, and below are various Collections.
If you scroll up, you get this:
which is the Library view with the title "Library" at the top. It's in the Library view that you see the arrows for sorting and the options menu.
And it's in the Library view where you can change the size of the Library thumbnails.
Once of the intermediate sizes should accommodate 5 across. You need to play around with the zoom level.
I have not found a way to make it permanent, and if the Photos app is closed it will revert to the smaller size.
click here ➜ View photos and videos on iPad - Apple Support
The last line in that list is “view options”. If you tap on that, you will get the choice of “zooming in”. The other way to achieve this is not to tap on anything but just to pinch out until you get to three thumbnails across the screen and, hopefully, it will stay that way for you. It did for me.
Swipe down to switch from “Photos” to Library” which is above Photos.
Then you can pinch in / out to view 3 / 5 etc.
It seems to keep this for “Photos”.
I think “Photos” perhaps stays as you size in “Library” but not sure.
Easy enough to adjust once I realized Photos was not the Library.
And how to get to Library.
On my iPad, the default in "Recently Saved" is 5 across. In "Photos" (Library) it's 7 across. If I zoom to 5, go to another view, and come back it is still 5. If I close Photos and re-open it, or if I just switch to another app and switch back, the Library view goes back to 7.
Seven's not so bad on an iPad, but that's really tiny on a phone. Let Apple know here:
Swipe up to display a full screen of photos, the double arrows will appear at the bottom left of the screen.
Thanks for replying.
Before software update when iPad mini was in landscape mode I used to get five thumbnails in a row in the Photo app.
Now I get Eleven! Which means they’re very small and not a lot of use.
It’s possible to zoom them so you get five in a row again, but it only lasts while you are in the app and it’s a bit of a pain to have to do it every time you go back in.
I’ve just had a look, and yes, in every album or utility there are five photos across. But in the main library (photos)there are 11 tiny ones across. Like you, if I zoom to five, every time I go off to another app and come back it’s returned to eleven, which are far too small to be useful on an iPad Mini.
Steps to adjust the number of thumbnails on the screen.
You can pinch on the photos view to zoom in or out and make the thumbnails larger or smaller.
View photos and videos on iPhone - Apple Support
I don't even have the 3 across option this is the worst feature they could have done especially for people who are vision impaired. Apple please fix this so we can make it remember how we want to see our photos NOT how you think we should.
Using my iPad Air I am able to reduce the 11 images to 3 by pinching out to enlarge the images.
However, I am frustrated with this update on a number of issues, but to keep on subject, the new Album configuration is extreme difficult for me to use. The icons and text are too small for me to read or see without a magnifying glass. I cannot pinch this out to enlarge the size of the album categories!
I apologize for the following because it is dysfunctional, but it has to be said. For Company who should recognize and help those of us with disabilities such as age related macular degeneration should know better and be more sensitive with regard to this types of update mistakes. Further I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings at Apple, but maybe you need to take a lesson from other digital companies such as Adobe who issue BETA mirror application and solicit feedback on their updates prior to launch.
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