IOS18 doesn't find photos by caption or date (day, month and year).

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IOS18 doesn't find photos by caption or date (day, month and year).

IOS18 doesn't find photos by caption or date (day, month and year). I'm a doctor, I need this to find any of the 40,000 photos I have. The iPhone was a work tool for me, I could quickly locate a photo by the date it was taken or by the caption I had written. Now that's no longer possible; I've lost years of organization. I am crazy with this.

Apple made a worse version of "Photos", removed a very useful function? Many people complaining about the same problem. When will they fix this?

iPhone 12 Pro, iOS 18

Posted on Sep 29, 2024 2:31 PM

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pkbrasil Author

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Jan 8, 2025 4:24 PM in response to Jlute4

Same for me. The dates and captions are no longer useful. I upgraded my iPhone. When I realized how bad the update was, I didn't upgrade my iPad. Unfortunately, in my day-to-day work at the hospital, I only use my iPhone. I can no longer compare the lesions of the patients I was seeing according to the date of the appointment. And if I'm going to give a class, I can't find the photo by the name of the disease. They managed to make an app that was once ok worse. If regret killed, I would be dead from installing iOS 18

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Feb 18, 2025 7:31 AM in response to pkbrasil

I have also experienced this frustrating phenomenon. Try adding a TITLE to the photo, something that's brief, but specific to the shot. I did it and not only did the photo show up in my photo search, it also appeared in the SPOTLIGHT search.

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pkbrasil Author

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Feb 18, 2025 10:45 AM in response to boomertooner

It is precisely this title/caption that had been placed on thousands of photos that iPhoto no longer selects. In addition, we have thousands of untitled photos that were searched by date and this is no longer possible. There is no possibility of naming each old photo that we have stored. They removed functions that worked and led us to store photos in a certain way and suddenly removed these functions. Bizarre!

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Feb 18, 2025 10:20 AM in response to JLSeth

Thanks of the response, JLSeth. Yes, I know and I have the same dilemma. What I offered is not a fix, rather a way around it — something I stumbled onto while trying varying options. Even it is a cumbersome move, as the title box doesn't readily appear when first shooting the photo. Opening the photo afterward, you click on the INFO button to enter the TITLE.

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pkbrasil Author

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Feb 18, 2025 10:46 AM in response to boomertooner

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