Unable to search in my 'Photos App' after new update

HOW do we get them to put it back !!! This is horrible ! I depended on it for fast lookups for work !!

Absolute disaster - I can no longer share my photos with anyone.

so simple and easy before the update - I now have no trust whatsoever in apple.

thanks Apple for my subscription and inability to share or find all my photos

Yep that's the first thing I noticed after updating unfortunately since I used that on the daily, especially the "saved from" filter. I updated my phone a few days ago and my ipad a few months ago - it works like normal on the ipad but doesn't seem to work at all on my phone. So I suppose it comes with time - which is weird because it seems like each new device has to catalogue your entire camera roll again.

It’s amazing how they could mess this up with NEW technology. I love it when Apple decides to create a slide show for me with pictures they pick! I have a whole show with my friend’s husband! Not mine, my friend’s! I’ll type in Palm Desert and get pics from Palm Beach! So annoying

I want my pictures back. I don’t know how much painter to put it. I don’t know what you did with them. I don’t know where they went. I did smoke this app on my phone to begin with. Please get my pictures back. All I have with my grandkids.

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I’m here for the same reason as everyone else. After an update, search photos is hit-and-miss. I rely on this function and am devastated to lose it. I’m hoping it re-indexes over time but it’s been a couple of days. Why break this function, Apple?

This is my first iPhone and I think I’m going to go back to Android next time I upgrade. iPhone has less functionality in general (for instance, you can’t do split screen to outsmart YouTube’s limitation on multitasking while playing music) but every time I find a gem like this search photos feature, which allowed me to search which meme I wanted to attach/post, it ends up getting ripped away.

I charge my phone nightly with the cable so ughh I don’t know if this will work for me. I hope Apple is working on changing this cause that was the best part of the photos/search function!

anyone else have any solutions?

That’s been so frustrating. I’m in a photo app searching for a specific thing and it only gives me text matches. I’m not searching for the word ____(whatevr) I’m actually searching for a picture of that.

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!!!

I immediately noticed this upon my first search. I kept putting off the update up until today, and I’m highly disappointed after doing so. Honestly wish I would've just waited until a version where the SEO bugs in the Photos app were fixed. This definitely taught me a lesson: I will never update the software version without allowing it to be running long enough for there to be information on what kind of potential bugs that version of iOS has.

I shouldn't have to go to the trouble of resetting my phone and going through all of that! Apple should do a better job of vetting their programs before they release them.

I am so tired of the lack of caring as far as checking everything out before new releases and then having to turn around and do three more updates just to try and fix the problem that they created for lack of due diligence. If anything ever happens to my iPhone, I am definitely never going back to an apple product.

The keyboard has been terrible for years and nobody has done anything about ii even though continual criticism continued to be given.

I resent the fact that I have to reset my phone just to make it work the way that it did before Apple messed it up.

Hi All. After my last reply some mos ago today I found this to work for me.

1. Back up Iphone
2. Do hard Reset
3. Reset location privacy
4. Do hard reset
5. i then done the Rest Location Privacy again and now it searches fir everything I type in.
6. The other advice the site said was to leave iPhone locked and power from usb attached and leave all night to Index.

hopes it helps you guys.

big H 👍

Hi All. After my last reply some mos ago today I found this to work for me.

1. Back up Iphone
2. Do hard Reset
3. Reset location privacy
4. Do hard reset
5. i then done the Rest Location Privacy again and now it searches fir everything I type in.
6. The other advice the site said was to leave iPhone locked and power from usb attached and leave all night to Index.

hopes it helps you guys.

big H 👍

Same here

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