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

Just updated to IOS 18.1 and I believe I no longer have a camera roll?

This means I will now need to sell my iphone, apple watch, Ipad and so on. Can anyone recommend a good phone with a great camera that has a camera roll?

For me photos on my iphone is now a complete mess, Im not even gonna attempt to get my head around it, I have 56,000 photos on my phone and I use to know exactly where they all were, now i am without clue.

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iPhone 13 Pro Max, iOS 18

Posted on Nov 7, 2024 1:21 AM

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IdrisSeabright

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Posted on Dec 3, 2024 1:16 PM

ilovemyprobe wrote:

My recent days isnt in order, it starts a year ago and then moves on to today, yesterday etc.

I wasn't talking about "Recent Days. " I use the Library. It's at the very top of the screen. To the best of my knowledge, you can't move it. It doesn't actually say "Library" until you pull it all the way down, so it takes up the whole screen. When you pull it down, you'll also see the icons for sorting ascending or descending and also "Years" and "Months".

If you don't like "Recent Days," you can even turn that off. Go to the very bottom of the screen and tap on "Customize & Reorder." You can turn off things you don't want to see and rearrange the rest. But Library remains at the top.

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.

Are you taking the picture on your laptop and transferring it to the phone using a cable? That's the only time a photo becomes undeletable on an iPhone (and it's been that way for years). Anything you transfer directly from the computer to the iPhone can only be removed from the computer.

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ilovemyprobe Author

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Dec 18, 2024 7:00 AM in response to IdrisSeabright

IdrisSeabright wrote:

I'm not talking about "Recent Days." I mean the library at the top of the screen. Until you pull it down, it just says "Photos" at the top.

This is what i am doing, TAP ON PHOTOS ICON (to open app)

1) SCOLL MY FINGER DOWNWARDS UNTIL PHOTOS CHANGES TO LIBRARY

2) TAP ON CIRCLE WITH TWO ARROWS SHOWING OPTIONS

3) TICKED AS RECENTLY ADDED

4) SCROLL DOWN AND I BOUNCE AROUND FROM ONE YEAR TO ANOTHER THEN BACK AND SO ON.

NOTE: I started using caps to highlight but it all became CAPS and so looks like I am shouting, I am not, said whilst smiling, the cap thing was just a bad idea.

Dec 18, 2024 8:28 AM in response to ilovemyprobe

ilovemyprobe wrote:

Caps explanation just seemed more fun but i guess its just best to stay on topic espesh as i'm the one needing help.

Fair enough. ;-)

"Sorted by Date Captured." has put everything into date order with the exception of some concert photos that pop up first in my library taken 2 months ago. Ill look at the folder on my pc to see if there is something there causing this.

Thank you for your persistence, appreciated.

I'm glad to hear it helped. It's definitely possible that the EXIF data on those photos has been changed somehow.

Dec 22, 2024 2:15 AM in response to Lawrence Finch

Yes, but not to the extent that Apple does. For example my friend can easily transfer pictures between his computer and Samsung smartphone. Also no need to delete 37,000 pictures and copy 37,001 pictures to add one picture to his smartphone. Of course, nobody here, especially Apple, cares what decisions I make, LOL.

Dec 22, 2024 7:36 AM in response to GranAlcazar

GranAlcazar wrote:

Same here, especially if you have pictures taken with other devices. In my case I sync my phone with pictures taken with a digital camera. Huge mess...

That’s funny. I sync pictures taken with a Nikon DSLR, first to my computer for backup, then with my iPhone via the computer Photo app and then to iCloud which syncs automatically to my iPhone and iPad. Trivially easy. I could go directly to the iPhone also, but I like the belt and suspenders approach of having an archival copy on my computer, that is backed up to Time Machine. And I also sync to Google Photos.

Some pictures are too important to lose in a disaster.

ilovemyprobe Author

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Nov 7, 2024 10:18 AM in response to ilovemyprobe

And whilst I am on my soap box I now have images, in what use to be my camera roll, which i can’t actually delete now. The trash can disappears on certain pics. I need to go lie down. 😳

BPond

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Nov 27, 2024 12:46 PM in response to ilovemyprobe

As usual, it’s mostly change for the sake of change. No realized benefit other than busy work for some software writer in order to justify a position.

aaaali11

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Nov 27, 2024 2:47 PM in response to ilovemyprobe

كيف اختفى جوالي كامل وكيف اعرف وين موقعه

Nov 28, 2024 4:43 PM in response to ilovemyprobe

I am sure you can organise your photos even to a mini SD card on most Android phones. This is bad! I’m going to register my complaint at Apple Feedback. See if that goes anywhere…(?)

ilovemyprobe Author

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Dec 5, 2024 10:07 AM in response to Lawrence Finch

Lawrence Finch thank you

Dec 6, 2024 9:30 AM in response to Lawrence Finch

Lawrence Finch wrote:

Good point. However, syncing via cable was always a pain,

Agreed. I stopped doing it years ago.

dda52

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Dec 17, 2024 1:05 PM in response to dda52

EDIT: I see the whole library, not a photo roll :(

ilovemyprobe Author

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Dec 17, 2024 2:26 PM in response to IdrisSeabright

I don’t think that’s the case with me. I have sorted mine into recent first and I still get a mixture of recent and old.

Dec 22, 2024 2:19 AM in response to ilovemyprobe

Same here, especially if you have pictures taken with other devices. In my case I sync my phone with pictures taken with a digital camera. Huge mess...

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