I can no longer “search” in photos. For example if I wanted a photo from my photos that had something specific like a pumpkin, I could type in pumpkin and all photos I had with a pumpkin would pop up. Now since the new backup, it no longer does it😖 Anyone else hating the way they changed photos. It’s not user friendly to me AT ALL.
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iPhone 13, iOS 18
I have an iPhone 13 I updated to IOS 18, I restarted. Everything is synced. When I open photos, I go in the upper right corner search, I type in, for example Halloween and usually all of my Halloween photos pop up but I get nothing!
Me too now
WHY can’t I search my photos library
I’m hating my iPhone right now! Why can’t I search photo library!! ???
Maybe they signed a side deal with MTV new drama series ready to go
Could not agree more Already considering going back to my Android Samsung
LEAVE MY STUFF ALONE
STOP CHANGING THINGS WITHOUT NOTIFICATION SECOND THOUGHT STOP CHANGING THINGS!!!
Going to get rid of my IPhone and encourage everyone I know to do the same .. AND discourage anyone from going Apple
UNITED WE STAND?!?
Mine stopped working today as well. I hadn’t even updated my phone it just stopped working. I had an update and hoped that would fix the issue, but it did not.
How long ago did you update to iOS 18? How many photos and videos do you have on the phone?
Depending on the size of your library, it can take iOS 18 a while to build up its search index, particularly on an older phone (which an iPhone 13 is starting to be).
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Apple sent me to Best Buy to get my battery replaced. I made the appointment a week ago. I drove 45 minutes to Beat Buy and they didn’t have a battery to put in my phone! I then had to drive all the way to an Apple Store for this repair. The above was the response from Best Buy!! Apple should NOT have them as a place to get phones fixed
I have a brand new 16 pro and lots of photos labeled “Alan’s house “
before on older 11pro max I searched Alan’s house and all showed up 😊NOW I search and literally 3 !!! What the heck ?? I’m charging the phone on usb / this is horrible !!
Yep same as. Even before I updated to iOS 18.4 the search function wasn’t working- not even for albums. I have most of my photos in albums and it works intermittently. Try to search for some albums and it won’t work at all so I have to scroll down through the list to find the album I want. They say a smart phone like the iPhone 13 has more sophisticated tech than the Apollo 11 rocket that put a man on the moon- not seeing it if it can’t carry out a basic search function!!!
The photo search option was probably my favorite feature on my phone. Sometimes it wants to work others it doesn’t. Doesn’t matter if it’s plugged in, on WiFi, not plugged in, not on WiFi it has randomly working and not working since the new IOS. I hate it. Apple you legit ruined my favorite thing about my phone.
How do I use the photos app today? Nothing works. Search the name of a ‘person’ and the results delivered are photos of featuring the name spelled within the photo. Search Johnnie and what comes back is a photo where you can read J O H N N I E written on a page in a notebook within a photo.
not long ago I could find a photo by name and activity by typing name and activity. Today, not even close. Each Photos NAME album has been split up into multiple folders and not identified as the same person. This is awful awful, I cannot find a photo in less than an hour! So frustrating.
I see a new update to 18.3 says improvement on “photo search “ issues has anyone tried 18.3 (I have 18.1 now) to see if it worsens this horrible search issue or actually fixes it ??
Unable to search in my 'Photos App' after new update
