Edit button missing on my photos in iPhone post iOS 18 update

Once you are in the edit mode, tap the circle-with-three-dots in the upper right corner and select Extensions to get the list of third-party apps you have that are able to edit with the current Photos app.

No guarantee that any specific older app will still work, of course. They have the use the Extension interface these days. PS Express works, for example.

bascoconnie wrote: My edit button is not in the 3 lines cluste

What do you get when you tap the edit icon?

Which, by the way, is supposed to make you think of editing tools, like this

No edit button on photos:(. Now that I read all these messages, I’m afraid to check and see what else isn’t working :-( I did get some notice that says “we’ve made everything easier”. Yikes!!!😱

Thanks for this community as I never would have found the editing option. Dear Apple you need to do better. Take these option and enhancement ideas away from the developers and let them start with users. Developers are playing with . . Oh that would be cool ideas that do not help the user. For those reading and still looking for the editing Photo options, they are buried under the 3 sliding bars icon. Not all Apple users are GenZ and know this stuff intuitively.

Mark I see it.. and I have it.. but it only brings up a basic edit option. Where are my 3rd party editing options that were always there until the recent update? I had several like camera plus and more. So if you can show us how to access those.

I did the 18.2 update. Mine just shows perpetually loading. I have clicked everything looking for a new way to crop. It lets me enlarge the photo and then offers a crop button but then is once again in a perpetual loading state. Apple fix it! My side hustle is suffering because of it. It will not let me take Live off either. I also like to order my own photos. Please revert back to the old version for older phone users. It makes me want to move to a regular camera - even though this one has great clarity. Then I won’t have to worry about updates messing up my photo editing.

it’s gonna turn into trial and error and everybody’s got to relearn the menus but edit is still around. It just doesn’t say edit. What I found is under the three lines.

How do I edit my photos without an edit button. Not doing any more updates, wish I could cancel the last one!

placorte wrote: "...If I crop at the top or bottom it narrows so the photo is cut in width..."

placorte ~ It sounds like you need to Unlock Aspect Ratio in Crop mode – tap the 3 dots at upper right:

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When you hit the three dots go up to mark up and you will see the edit tool It sucks as I can't do anything with fonts size or different fonts. I am going to scream!

You need to unlock the edit function Click on the pic you working on.

then Tap quickly twice on the 3 lines again. If a little 🔒shows up on your screen top left corner then click on it🔒 and it should unlocked the edit function

Click on the photo you want to edit with the 3lines and then double click on them again (tap-tap) a little yellow heart 💛 will show on top of the 3 lines .. !! After that should be able to use the edit function.

Hope it helps 🍀

K09RbT@.-lyn7AsXz_. wrote: "Listen Apple, ..."

K09RbT@.-lyn7AsXz_. ~ Apple isn't here in these user-to-user communities. Apple will listen here:

Feedback - Photos - Apple

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APPLuser_Input wrote: "...Dear Apple you need to do better..."

APPLuser_Input ~ Apple isn't here in these user-to-user communities. Apple is here:

Feedback - Photos - Apple

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Sbigs wrote: "Found it after an hour of searching through this forum and the phone itself..."

Sbigs ~ You could have found it within seconds in the iPhone User Guide:

Edit photos and videos on iPhone - Apple Support

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Tillster20 wrote: "I do not get the extensions option when tapping the 3 dots at the top so what now?..."

Tillster ~ It's not clear what mode you're in when tapping the 3 dots. If you've simply opened a photo and tapped the 3 dots, you need to go a step further into Adjust mode:

Tap a photo or video to open it, then tap 

...then tap the 3 dots at the top.

But if you still don't see the Extensions option, post back with a screenshot.

Edit photos and videos on iPhone - Apple Support

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