Photo “Albums” disappeared after updating to IOS 18

I don't usually have issue with regular IOS update or whatsoever and never comment in community. But this update really messes up user experience especially photo album features. Hope Apple team could bring back older format/template for photo album or do similar one again. The update should be user friendly especially for app/features with heavy user usage. I'm baffled by how this has been approved and pushed out publicly when general public prefers the old format.

PeterB2plus wrote:

But if I buy another phone it will not be an Apple because you don’t get 2 bites of it, my programming friends at Apple!

If you have programming friends at Apple, you should speak to them directly. This is a user-to-user forum. Apple doesn't read here for feedback or suggestions.

I don't care what kind of phone you buy.

What a mess. My 4000 photos went to the deleted folder. I only discovered it by accident after panicking

and I restored the photos. The numbers of hours and over the past years to sort these pics into albums and now all a mess. I’m beyond angry. I’m about ready to leave the Apple ecosystem (monopoly). You’ve made a mess of iPhoto’s over the years and let’s not forget Apple Music mess.

Sadly, nobody at Apple is paying attention to us or this site. If they were, they would have fixed this mess a month and a half ago when they installed iOS 18. I’ve been to the Apple Store a few times and also have called AppleCare to no avail. This was the WORST Apple update ever to which there appears to be no adequate solution to retrieve our albums. 🤷🏻‍♀️

On my iPhone 15 pro max,ios 18.3, I am missing all the photos from past years that I saved in the my camera roll.

Photos are saved in my camera roll only from 05.09.2024 to today.

I have not deleted them either consciously or unconsciously. Please find a way to get the previous photos back to my phone.

Whoever designed the new photo application with the latest update should be removed from designing anything else. The photo update and mail app update are the absolute worst ever. Please can I go back to the older version?

Since the IOS18 update I have lost all the downloads which had been put into an Album The Album “Air Fryer” is still there but 0 photos in it I have been in touch with Apple Support but they cannot help me

My Album was listed but had no photos in it Contacted Apple but they could not help I also have google photos on my iPad and every photo and download I took was still in google photos The album I lost was downloads of Air Fryer recipes and I just made a new Album called Air Fryer and transferred them all on to it

I definitely have lost all my folders and the photos that were in them! They are not in the Recently Deleted section nor do they appear if I swipe right on Albums or if I swipe to the bottom. Does anyone have any other ideas, please?

tali22 wrote:

Nobody wants to customize anything. We already did that when we organized our pictures long ago.

This is ridiculous.

You don't speak for everyone. I love the fact that I can now customize what I want to see on the Photos app main screen.

siumip wrote:

APPLE needs to bring back the previous Photos app!!!!! PLEASE!!!!

Apple doesn't read here in this user-to-user forum for feedback or suggestions. You can, however, let them know your thoughts here:

Product Feedback - Apple

This new Update is an inconvenience.

I find this update to be a significant improvement and have told Apple so using the appropriate channel. So, as of this moment, Apple has heard my opinion but not yours.

No, 18.3.2 makes no significant changes to the Photos interface. I don't imagine there would be any until iOS 19 if then, but Apple doesn't tell me anything but what it says to the rest of the general public.

Unfortunately you have misunderstood the problem. “Folders” have disappeared along with all the photos that were in them. They have been replaced by “Albums” which, in my case, only have a handful of photos in them.

I have tried all the fixes suggested here but to no avail.

I agree. Horrible update for Photos on iPhone. Can still save to albums, but cannot SEE the albums. Very strange that the IOS18 update for my iPad did NOT do this - it's the same as it ever was. Extremely disappointed with Apple and searching for unafiliated apps to take Apple's Photo app's place, which is, in many ways, now UNUSABLE. I couldn't hate this result of an IOS update on my iPhone more.

THAT'S THE POINT. "Albums" DOES NOT APPEAR ANYWHERE in the Photos app anymore. There is no scrolling, AT ALL, below the photos display, just the link inviting "...reordering". The iPad version, on the other hand, works PRECISELY THE WAY IT USED TO. F Apple.