Cannot locate my Albums in Photos. HELP!
iPhone 11 Pro Max, iOS 18
Hello, everyone.
TulsaGB wrote:
Cannot locate my Albums in Photos. HELP!
rgashton wrote:
Lost my albums in photos , how do find them easily?
It’s simple:
Open Photos. On the top, you will see the photo grid, and on the bottom you will see the collections view.
Scroll down.
You will eventually find your albums under the header “Albums” in small tiles that have a key photo on the left and a title on the right.
Click one to open it.
If you want your Albums at or closer to the top, then scroll to the bottom of the collections view and tap “Customize & Reorder.” You can then reorganize where your collections are and choose the collections you want.
I hope this helps!
I thoroughly agree that this is the worst update that Apple has ever come up with! My photos are a total mess and I want what I had before the update. I’ve wasted so much time on this already that I’m contemplating getting rid of this phone and starting over!
You still can't search correctly for albums! I only get half the results up at any given search and some albums don't appear in the search list at all!!! Although they are still there if i scroll down my hundreds of albums, they won't appear in album search! USELESS
After the IOS 18 update my albums went down from 123 (on my iPad which I won’t update until this is sorted out) to 20. So I have lost 103 albums. Although when I searched for art class the album did appear. Any idea how these albums can made to reappear? I won’t remember what a lot of albums are called in order to search for them. Help please!
I have 160,00 photos in 1,300 albums.
‘there is no way to search albums - to go to that album.
I earn a living with these photos.
Your update - is preventing me from doing my job
I just bought a new $2,400 iPad and it is useless to me now
Since, there is no way to find and go to my albums and folders that house my photos.
We have started a page in social media
Apple’s worst update ever!
You should see what people are saying
I guess I will be going back to an android computer
Your photo update is awful. I can’t find my Christmas decorations album. I can’t go to year, month or day to try to find them. Other albums are gone. You randomly chose to delete albums I made for a reason and now most are gone. Whomever came up with this made a huge mistake!!!
Please enable the album option. Important information was captured in albums for me. Due to the number of pictures and videos I take, organizing by subject is more efficient than year, and month. Thank you
Where can I find my albums. Ever since IOS 18 update I had over 5 k pictures organized. Now they are a mess. I can find what I am looking for. When is this going to be fix. When is the capability of albums coming back.
Thank you so much for the post! It was driving me crazy not being able to find “my albums”. I was so relieved after following your instructions and there they were! Thanks for taking the time to actually call customer support and posting the solution. You get a Gold Star today! Again, thank you!
Thank you so much for the post! It was driving me crazy not being able to find “my albums”. I was so relieved after following your instructions and there they were! Thanks for taking the time to actually call customer support and posting the solution. You get a Gold Star today! Again, thank you!
This is the only suggestion that actually worked. They are still there. But trying to organize them in this new format is awful. I would also like to know why you can't "move" a photo to an album. It just gets copied into the album. So if you try to delete that photo from the huge, main album it deletes that photo everywhere. It would be so much cleaner to move it to the album of you choice and would keep that recent album so much smaller.
Japp, I absolutely agree. That drives me crazy. I learned the hard way after moving pictures to an album and then deleting in “recents”. It would be so much cleaner and organized if the picture simply moved to the folder and was no longer in recents.
Programmers! Top priority alert to fix the album snafu from latest iOS update 18.1. We are the end users of Apple products.Sales revenue from Apple products help pay your salaries. We do have other options….
_1984_ wrote:
Programmers! Top priority alert to fix the album snafu from latest iOS update 18.1. We are the end users of Apple products.Sales revenue from Apple products help pay your salaries. We do have other options….
Did you read any of the previous posts in this forum that explained Apple doesn't read here for feedback or suggestions? No, I didn't think so.
Albums are empty! Most of my album names are still there, I only had 20, however the albums are now empty! Apart from 3 of them (which have had more recent photos added to them in the last 12 months). So annoyed 😡, this is the second time this has happened. I only reorganised them again in August for it to happen again! I no longer trust Apple with my photos and am going to try to find alternative back ups.
I too thought my albums were gone and spent a day looking for them but they are still there. Follow the instructions below (thanks Lori_999) and make sure the albums are on and turn off all the other options that you don’t want and albums returns where you can find them
Photo “Albums” disappeared after updating to IOS 18
