Camera roll disappeared after iOS 18.1 update on my iPhone 13 Pro Max

Thank you. I organise all of my photos into hundreds of folders and am use to flicking down to get where i need to be in a jiffy. For me its a quick process but now i can view 3 folders at a time, thats flicking across the screen a couple of hundred times to get to W for example. This is no good to me.

With the camera roll, I use it to find the latest batch of photos taken, i can delete the rubbish, ie photo of my foot as i take the phone out of my pocket and move all the pics of my holiday, or walk in the park to a new folder called GREECE 2025 as example. I would also leave the odd special pic in camera roll for rapid access. Once bored of the pic (a year down the line) I would then move it to the appropriate folder. All of this for me is now no longer do-able.

I just need to find a phone with great camera and camera roll and will now sell all things apple, home pods the lot. If someone can recommend a phone then that would be very helpful.

Ptaxey thank you for taking the time to respond, its appreciated.

I’m still struggling with this. I can take a photo and simply not be able to find it afterwards. I scroll through pages of photos to find the image.

is it possible to use an alternative app that has a camera roll feature which I can then set to default?

i’ve never been so irritated buying an upgrade before.

Wanted to thank everyone for their replies and help.

I have 56,000 pics on my phone all named and sorted into folders. Camera Roll is very important to me because it enables me to find latest pics instantly and move to laptop to put in folders to then send back to phone now filed. So my camera roll is kept lean. BUT if i get a hospital letter in the post, I will take photo of appointment letter and keep in camera roll for 9 months until date of appointment. So my camera roll can consist of images covering up to 5 years back all in one place. Important letters, special one off video or photo taken, best pic of daughter and dog and so on, all kept in one easy to find place and not separated by date. Now i have no idea when any of this stuff can be found. I am desperate for a solution and just wish Apple had a simple "switch camera roll back on" button in settings.

I agree. Recent days is a joke. In recent days my first pile of pics is from a gig on 14th Dec 2023, next is today, then yesterday and so on. On each day there are pics which are screen shots, incoming watt-app junk, pic i took and so on. In order to delete them (as they were good for a moment only and not to keep) i have to search in 56,000 pics to locate. And there are a lot of screen dumps that are now UN-DELETE-ABLE too. Its mad. My carefully compiled photo library is turning to junk, its completely unacceptable. I now have to daily connect my iphone to windows PC, go into recent camera folders and delete from there. Before it was a simply PICK UP PHONE - PHOTOS APP - CAMERA ROLL - DELETE - DELETE - DELETE - DONE. Now I have to take half a day off work to sort. i simply couldn't moan enough.

IdrisSeabright

Hi, Firstly thank you for helping. My recent days isnt in order, it starts a year ago and then moves on to today, yesterday etc.

Screen dumps, what i mean is when i use my phone to take a pic of my laptop screen (sort of screen dump i guess) to send over to a friend for him to see, im now stuck with a pic that i dont get an option to delete. I have to connect iphone to laptop, go into iphone on laptop, search for folder, search for photo and delete from there.

IdrisSeabright sorry i cant work out how to quote you in my reply. Thanks for the LIBRARY thing, did not know about it. That seems to change things for me, with library visible and with use of options I think I'm sorted so thank you. Still hate the fact that camera roll has gone though as now easier to delete an image i wish to keep in error. Before I was confined to camera roll and could only delete within camera roll environment.

Re screen dumps, all images are taken on the phone. What is happening is:

1) I take pics on phone.

2) I transfer images to laptop and place in a new folder called "London 2024" as example

3) I sync phone so that images go back onto phone and in a folder.

Now images are none delete-able on phone.

Not noticed this before but then my latest pics have never been blended in with the pressure images I place in folders to keep safe. many thanks for your help.