How to find travel photos in iOS 18 Photos app?

Thank you for that excellent info You've greatly reassured me! I'll submit a feedback request to include it on the support page for the iOS 18 Photos app.

Now maybe you can help answer a question that I've had with the existing Photos app: On my Mac, albums are listed in an order that I've explicitly arranged. On my devices to which I sync this library, the albums (which are all in From My Mac) are not in this order. I'm not sure what algorithm ordered them, and I can edit the order to what I want it to be, but:

Is there any way, when sync'ing to a new iPhone, for example, for them to appear in the order in which they're sorted in the Mac's library?

With 200 albums to sort, I've never managed to complete the task on every device (currently two iPhones and an iPad), and have to scroll through all of them until I find what I want.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Thanks, that's very interesting. I notice that when I add a new album on my Mac, it seems to go someplace "similar" on my iPhone when I sync it, but because the current order on the phones and iPad is different from what's on the Mac, it's not obvious or helpful.

I suspect that at some time in the past (possibly the major architectural change that replace iPhoto by Photos, I don't remember), things got out of order, and that has persisted. Perhaps if I cleared the devices (by sync'ing no photos from the Mac) and then sync'ed them back, the albums would appear in the same order on all devices. That's a very time-consuming process, though, that I don't have a lot of time to try at the moment. But at least it's something that I could just let run while I sleep, as opposed to manually reordering things on the devices.

Anyway, thanks for reporting what you have, so that I can see that some improvement is possible.

No, I don't use iCloud, all photos are in the Photos library on my Mac. I do all backups to local media.

I'm currently testing un-syncing the photos from my iPad (the fastest of my devices) and re-syncing them. It's taking a very long time (as I expected it would). I think this may solve my problem, but if this takes a very long time, I may have to do this overnight (or give up).

There's no other way that I know of to delete all synced photos short of resetting my device to factory settings and restoring from backup (backups don't save sync'ed photos and other media, as I recall).

Well, it finished re-syncing on the iPad and the albums are still in the same cockeyed order that doesn't match what's on my Mac's Photos library. Clearly, there's some data structure that didn't get removed when I unsync'ed the photos.

I expect that a reset-to-factory would clear that, but at this point, I don't feel like spending any more time on it. Knowing that I can manually edit the order of albums, I may eventually do that, but, as I said, 200+ albums on three devices isn't an appealing amount of time to spend on this problem, which is more of an inconvenience than anything else.