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

Yes, I put off updating as long as I could because I got a new prompt requiring me to agree with possibly losing functions that we previously had. So it sounds like Apple made a deal with some third party apps that we didn’t use to need. Brilliant. My iPhone 13 has been glitchy from day one anyway, but the great edit features that were one of their selling points is now relegated to a third party? This seems out of line with their stated mission and vision. Super frustrated with Apple.

Found it after an hour of searching through this forum and the phone itself. Needed and expected an easy edit to write a note on something before sending to work and lost that time this morning. Apple please give warnings with instructions when changing things like this. It’s very poor customer service. Disregards user experience which I thought was one of Apple’s values.

I do not get the extensions option when tapping the 3 dots at the top so what now? I only updated because it was meant to give me AI access to be able to erase prope/objects from photos via the edit button ( clean up) That facility isn’t there either?

I want to rotate the picture and there is no way to do it under the new edit button. How can I rotate the picture? Where will I find the old edit button now? I figured it out on my own. The crop button rotates the picture. Not a smart move!

Ok so I found the edit. But what I can’t find is when I go to post a pic on my social media there used to be an option on the bottom of the photo to change the file size. Now it’s gone. Therefore many of my pics I cannot post because the file size is limited and my pic file size is too large. Ugh. Anyone???

Ok so being in a chat with apple for like 2 hours. Those squiggles lines did nothing for me. So this is what I found out. Double tap photo like you normally do. You will see markup on the top right. At the bottom of markup you will see a + sign. Hit that and you see a text button. So hit that and you see bold, size. BUT when i text I can’t change text size or other details. Then if you try to move the text sometimes I get a streak of color from the mark up. Best of luck and if you out how to change text please reply!!!!!

Even though the squiggly lines show edit, it's not the same edit. I can't crop. If I crop at the top or bottom it narrows so the photo is cut in width. Also,, I can't find any of my photos. They're all over the place.

This doesn't work. If I crop from the bottom up, my photo narrows, and I lose half the people. Cropping vertically also crops horizontally at the same time and it won't widen. Same if I crop from the top.

Happy939 wrote: "...What the heck Apple!!!!..."

Happy939 ~ Apple isn't here in these user-to-user communities. Apple is here:

Feedback - Photos - Apple

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Applehead2024 wrote: "...Apple fix it!..."

Applehead2024 ~ Apple isn't here in these user-to-user communities. Use this form:

Feedback - Photos - Apple

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Erenaa wrote: "No edit button on photos:(..."

Erenaa ~ In Photos app, please tap a photo and post a screenshot.

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PhantomLover wrote: "...Where are my 3rd party editing options that were always there until the recent update?..."

PhantomLover ~ In the ADJUST pane, tap the 3 dots in a circle > Extensions:

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I see the 3 lines but no edit.