Where is "Favorite" in iPhone Photos app in iOS 18?

Mike B wrote:

Apple is rapidly loosing the plot, every time you get into the swing of how the ios works they change it in major ways... I love Apple products but sadly I think they have lost the plot!

As you apparently did not read the thread you posted to, which describes several ways to find and relocate the Favorites folder, I’ll tell you one of the several ways: touch and hold the Photos icon on the Home Screen, then tap Favorites on the floating menu that appears.

To learn about all of the improvements in iOS 18 see the release notes:What’s new in iOS 18 - Apple Support

My wife just updated to IOS 18 on her iPhone 11 Pro. Went very well. I helped her to customize the home photos screen by removing some options. Without me doing anything else, her 'Favourites' album is at the top of the "Utilities" section so very easy to access as soon as the app is opened. So, one click to open the app, and a second click to open the 'Favourites' album. Same as it has been with IOS 17. No other issues with the Photos app.

Having said that I am still nervous to update my iPhone 15 Pro because I don't want to lose my album organization of 300 plus albums. No one including Apple can reassure me that they will try transfer over in their current state.

Otherwise, my wife's Photos app is working well and easy to use. I have taken several online courses on the Photos app and have helped several friends set up theirs. But I am still holding off! Weird!

AvrazArdi wrote: "...where is favorite in photos in ios 18 ??..."

Touch & hold the Photos app icon and choose Favorites:

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You’re half right. I just found it thanks to your post. For some reason known only to Apple people, Favorites is now in the Pinned Collection folder. So the only thing that changed is you have to open another folder to get to the Favorites folder. Maybe it makes sense to them!🤷

You can find it in pinned collections now. What a bad UX design!

Solution = Customise & reorder = Pinned collections =modify = add favourites and videos

Or hold your finger on the Photos icon on the Home screen and chose Favorites from the floating menu that appears.

Fooddevil1 wrote:

My favorite Photos are somewhere I can’t find.

I don’t like this new format

I want to separate them from regular photos,,,,PLEASE

The explanation for how to find favorites has been posted repeatedly in this forum. The easiest way is to hold your finger on the Photos icon on the Home screen and chose Favorites from the floating menu that appears.

Foxfire64 wrote:

My wife updated her iPhone 11 Pro to IOS 18 last week. Her "Favourites" album showed up immediately at the top of the "Pinned Collections". She then 'customized' and removed some choices from the Home Photos page and all is good. But I still have not updated my iPhone 15 Pro because I still have not been reassured that my albums will remain intact. My wife's update carried her albums over just fine but she only has 6 albums vs me having over 300. So, I remain waiting to update. I almost have updated several times then read another post where someone lost their album set up.

If you do, log in to iCloud and see if your albums are there. If they are you won’t lose any albums, but the will be re-indexed and moved around.

VANWAR wrote:

Thank you!! I managed to find favorites after the second to last update (which I hated but got used to) but hadn’t been able to locate it after the most recent one until I saw your comment. You’re a life saver.

And for Apple - as with others here, I really hate the latest update. So much harder to find what I need and more clicking around to get there..ggrr

Or hold your finger on the Photos icon on the Home screen and chose Favorites from the floating menu that appears.

I found a work around. First, go to Albums and create a Favorites album.

Then search Favorites and your old album comes up. Select all and copy, then paste in new album.

V_ic wrote:

It’s in pined collections, the first item. It’s dumb and pretty stupid aid if you don’t have pinned collections edabeld i don’t even think you can reach it

Well, you could move it to where you want it using the Customization feature in the iOS 18 photo app. Or hold the Photos icon on the Home Screen and tap on Favorites in the floating menu.

My wife updated her iPhone 11 Pro to IOS 18 last week. Her "Favourites" album showed up immediately at the top of the "Pinned Collections". She then 'customized' and removed some choices from the Home Photos page and all is good. But I still have not updated my iPhone 15 Pro because I still have not been reassured that my albums will remain intact. My wife's update carried her albums over just fine but she only has 6 albums vs me having over 300. So, I remain waiting to update. I almost have updated several times then read another post where someone lost their album set up.

Apparently favorites, videos, and screenshots are under “pinned collection”. 🙄

What do you concur with? The fact that you can hold your finger on the Photos icon on the Home screen and then tap Favorites to get to it directly? Or that you can reconfigure the Photos app to put Favorites wherever you want it, and also put other folders where you want them?