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

Redhead1951 wrote:

Why would Apple delete an album called Favorites since it contains - duh - favorites? So stupid - can’t find anywhere. These are very important things to me - thus were favorites!

It would have been stupid if that's what they had dont. But Apple did NOT delete the Favoirites albu. The Favorites album is still there. Instructions on where to find it have been given repeatedly in this thread.

That is exactly why I am avoiding the upgrade. I don't want to have to re-index and move over 300 albums. My wife's update didn't change her albums at all but she only had the 6 that I previously mentioned.

On a positive note, I have been coaching several friends as to how to use the new photos app since none had paid attention to the fact that they had updated to IOS 18 automatically until they looked closer and usually after I asked if they had! HA HA. Since I have watched several tutorials on how to use the new app I am comfortable sharing instructions with others. I use my wife's phone as a model. But my phone still remains in the "past".

Hi, I think the issue is not that you can sort the issue by having to read about the update but that it is very simple: The favourite folder is just that, no matter what changes there are to an app the favourite folder should be there, right in front of your nose… so why would a developer put its users through the hassle, look at the likes of posts on the OP and this thread to see the issue this caused! So, why would a developer not make their changes but then when the update is done, leave the folder that would be the most popular folder where it should be… right there where it was before, in front if the users eyes! If they did that and users didn’t want it there ‘then’ they can change it… common sense has been lost in everything we do today and practically ever year Apple ‘as many other developers’ create the same issues when just stopping and thinking about the changes might help avoid the hassle caused to many of their paying customers!

please don’t say ‘don’t buy Apple’ as a retort, that is not a solution!

thanks for your input!

Foxfire64 wrote:

That is exactly why I am avoiding the upgrade. I don't want to have to re-index and move over 300 albums. My wife's update didn't change her albums at all but she only had the 6 that I previously mentioned.

On a positive note, I have been coaching several friends as to how to use the new photos app since none had paid attention to the fact that they had updated to IOS 18 automatically until they looked closer and usually after I asked if they had! HA HA. Since I have watched several tutorials on how to use the new app I am comfortable sharing instructions with others. I use my wife's phone as a model. But my phone still remains in the "past".

Well, you can avoid the upgrade as long as you don’t mind leaving your iPhone vulnerable to any new malware that is blocked by the update and future updates.

I am not sure why the answer for iOS 18 is having to make settings changes to resemble and function like the previous iOS 17. Does no one see the irony?

I find everything more complicated. When I swipe down I want to see what I’ve been conditioned to see (by Apple) and not 2 new pages and a whole lot of more options …. It’s supposed to be a shortcut not a different way of accessing all of what can already be accessed the regular way.

Apple won’t let me post anything that criticizes their products so I doubt this will even be able to be seen.

PhoneHackedMaybe wrote:

I am not sure why the answer for iOS 18 is having to make settings changes to resemble and function like the previous iOS 17. Does no one see the irony?

No, I don’t see any irony at all. In the previous version everything was pretty much fixed where Apple thought it should be. In the iOS 18 version you can move objects around and put them where you want them to be. And the fact that you can customize is somehow a negative? Give me a break!

Apple won’t let me post anything that criticizes their products so I doubt this will even be able to be seen.

That is absolutely hilarious! You clearly haven’t read the 13 pages of this thread that are FULL of posts criticizing Apple’s decisions with respect to the Photos app, or the posts praising the changes.

Do you work for Apple? Being able to customize is great! Driving the customization on people is not. Do you have able 75yo Mom and 80yo Dad? Do they have Apple phones? Do you think most tech troubled people would be able to easily navigate the iOS? So you give me a break pal - you’re probably an Apple employee anyway.

As far as warranties are concerned, Apple acknowledged the defect and gave people an incredibly small window to claim them - but if you owned them for more than 3 years you were not eligible. So: Apple only stands behind the quality of their products for 3 years … and yes I had AppleCare.

PhoneHackedMaybe wrote:

Do you work for Apple? Being able to customize is great! Driving the customization on people is not. Do you have able 75yo Mom and 80yo Dad? Do they have Apple phones? Do you think most tech troubled people would be able to easily navigate the iOS? So you give me a break pal - you’re probably an Apple employee anyway.

I really get tired of kids like you thinking that we "old people" are somehow unable to understand or use technology. The internet, computers, cell phones were all invented by people your parents' age or older.

People have been complaining since the original Apple computer that Apple doesn't offer enough customization. Now that they offer more, people whine about it.

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

Why did they burry favorites below the fold making them hard to find. Those are the most used every day. That’s how I find the photos I took that I need to come back to and look at. Not a good user experience. Adding additional work for the user to do something they do most instead of making it easier.

Is it just me or are there a lot of repeated posts in this thread? When reading through all 13 pages, I'm reading copies of the exact same posts for a bunch of them.

Let me just add that "Utilities" seems like a strange place for a Favorites album/folder (or is it "Pinned Collections", or is it both?). We'll see how it goes when I upgrade. I'll have to let my spouse know. She couldn't find her favorites a couple days about when we were out with friends. That's why I'm looking this up now.

I Googled "ios 18 photos app how to view favorites" and this thread is the 2nd result. 👍

I definitely read the helpful info in this thread. I have not yet updated my iphone to iOS 18. But now I'll be a bit more prepared when I eventually do. Once I do, I will try going to Photos one of the first things.

The holding down of the app icon for a menu is interesting. I guess they might as well add options there, as that was the way we either moved icons around or deleted apps.

Alright, I just read the Release Notes now too since I had a few minutes. Thanks.

I hope the Customize thing went away or is modified. I can't tell you how many times I accidentally long-press on my locked screen (just by holding my darn phone), and then it goes to Customize and I can't get out to do what I actually wanted without relocking my screen first. That has been frustrating.

I don't build in pre-planned time to my life to learn about Apple updates :) That's probably the case with lots of others here. When I have an update, I make sure to do it overnight on a weekend, or another time of day when I know I'm not going somewhere and I can check my phone is working ok afterward, particularly my alarms as my phone is my alarm clock. So I don't jump and do the update immediately as I know it can inconvenience me in some ways to have my phone inaccessible, and plugged into a cord, for a period. But when I do have this time, I may not read the release notes as I want to make sure the update goes! And most times the updates have not prevented me from figuring things out without too much trouble.

Cheers

This helps the visual noise but does NOT restore functionality. When we had the ability to switch between tabs of recents and by date, I felt so much more fluid with organizing and finding things. It is NOT useful to only have one menu where you can look at things, there's no way to smoothly flip between a folder and recents if you're cross referencing something....I am begging Apple to put it back to how it was before. It was intuitive previously and this whole new setup is a gross mess. I'm extremely adaptive with tech but there is no way to use this new setup as I used to use the old one and it's clunking up my processes.

lolasilver wrote:

I fully have plans to switch to Android if they're not interested in listening to us.

It might amaze you to know that none of the other users in this user to user forum care what you do.

lolasilver wrote:

I am begging Apple to put it back to how it was before.

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

It was intuitive previously and this whole new setup is a gross mess. I'm extremely adaptive with tech but there is no way to use this new setup as I used to use the old one and it's clunking up my processes.

It may also come as a surprise to you that not everyone in the world shares your opinion. I love the new Photos. I find it much more configurable and much pleasanter to use. Perhaps you're not as adapatable as you think.