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

I hate the new the update for photos. They made it to difficult please bring back the old version

Pardon me for disliking Apple's "placement" of the Favorite photos. Let me rephrase this so that you can understand the simplicity that I am trying to convey.

I want to be able to place it where I want it. Not in some section that I have to dig through just to find it. It was fine where it was. I didn't have to take these EXTRA time-consuming steps to find a favorite photo that I want to send or just to browse through my photo's. I LOVE the ability to "favorite" a photo and have it in its own group without having to go through a whole process of putting it in a folder with extra steps just to view it.

So once again Apple DID NOT seriously think this through. If I wanted an Android and the digging I would buy an Android.

Wow. Like Photos update? You seem to be in the minority. I have avoided updating because of all the concerns I have seen online. YouTube, etc. I have over 300 albums and don't want to lose them. Have read that all photos are scrambled and not able to sort. Have spoken with Apple Help and they do admit that there are issues with this new Photos set up. I like what I have had for years. Normally am keen to update for new features but not this time. Can get no reassurance from anyone that my albums will still be there after the update.

Universriot wrote:

I don’t understand that move Favorites to the middle of nowhere in Photos App. I use it every time when I open App. Now I need to scroll and find it. How bad was that decision by Apple Developers’ Team?

Have you told Apple how you feel?

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I love the redesign of Photos and have let Apple know.

In photo app, scroll to bottom, select “customize & recorder”, make sure “pinned collection” is selected, move that above album.

Yeah it’s silly that they are doing these updates while messing up our experience.

You may not have been blind-- some of these things are appearing only slowly as Photos scans and catalogs the pictures.

Then, of course, we all do go blind to things from time to time.

What’s with this new update. The calendar is awful as well as the photo app. How do we get the old version back. Not everything has to be changed unless it’s a real improvement. This isn’t.

I absolutely HATE this new photos layout. Why did they have to change it??? It’s so confusing and I can’t find my favorite photos? I liked the old layout way more. Stop changing things that don’t need it Apple 🙄

You could also scroll to the bottom of the Photos app, tap Customize & Reorder, and put Favorites (and anything else you want to move) to wherever you want it. For Favorites move the Utilities folder, which has it. I moved it to just below the photo library, so it is the first thing I see when I open the app.

Sueiro1977 wrote: "...I just wish they'd leave the few software options that work and START working on all the bugs in these iOS updates..."

As we're all just users here, consider letting Apple know your wishes:

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Awb123 wrote:

I want to be able to place it where I want it. Not in some section that I have to dig through just to find it. It was fine where it was. I didn't have to take these EXTRA time-consuming steps to find a favorite photo that I want to send or just to browse through my photo's. I LOVE the ability to "favorite" a photo and have it in its own group without having to go through a whole process of putting it in a folder with extra steps just to view it.

Tell Apple:

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This was in Reply to "BarryM321"

Thought about that too, but think about it, won't we have to continue to move any "favorited" photos moving forward into this created Album Labeled "Favorites"? I doubt it'll sync up Automatically you know what I mean? I tried multiple things guys, and after playing with "Customize & Reorder" I found that the only solution is to keep Favorites in the "Pinned Collections" for good. No choice. Just think of the Favorite folder called "Pinned Collections now". That's what I'm doing. I unchecked most all the boxes in "Customize & Reorder" but left Pinned Collections Checked (up Top 1st) and Albums checked (showing 2 in order).

Recent Photos (stays up top no matter what, so leave unchecked in Albums or you're just doubling up. The only other suggestion I would add is placing Videos in Pinned Collections after Favorites.

I just wish they'd leave the few software options that work and START working on all the bugs in these iOS updates like the "Double Word" popups when using Audio Text or better yet, FIX AUTO-CORRECT Geez.

Dre469 wrote:

Apple needs to change it back , we did not ask for This it’s absolutely makes no sense 😑

There are probably over 1,000 features of Apple products that no one asked for. So what? I really like the redesigned Photos app, it’s a real improvement over the previously “clunky” UI.

Foxfire64, my folder structure and many hundreds of albums survived the transition to iOS 18. It's not as easy to navigate as in macOS Photos, but neither was any previous version of iOS Photos (in my opinion).

Foxfire64 wrote:

Thank you for your messages. Both are reassuring. Not sure why I am so paranoid as over many years have never had any issue with Apple products. After reading the earlier reviews where there were many negative comments it scared me off of updating. And a good point is that the many thousands that had no issues are not likely to post any comments!

and….some users are not adept at using the technology so maybe were not following directions to begin with.

I understand that your pictures are valuable to you and that, should your organization system get munged, it would be annoying in the extreme. I can't say with 100% certainty that nothing bad will happen if you upgrade. But, my experience updating to iOS 18 was completely smooth.

Best of luck.