Photo “Albums” disappeared after updating to IOS 18

This is the worst update ever. My pictures are a hot mess. Please give us the option to go back to the old format!!!! I am so upset right now. Who does your research before hurting the masses?

After spending hours and hours and days and days and weeks and weeks organizing over 100k pictures in my library into albums the upgrade has unilaterally destroyed my work by eliminating my albums. Talk about ill conceived. You can promptly restore them. I have been a longtime Mac user but I am regretting the every penny of the many thousands of dollars wasted on hardware and software from apple. I genuinely hate every single person responsible for this disaster. Fix it now.

Yeah, it changed a bunch. There is no longer separate Library, Albums, etc, windows to select at the bottom. Now when you open Photos in iOS 18, you get everything all a once. (good movie) The top half is the Library, and the bottom has Recent Days and then Albums, People&Pets, Pinned collections like Map and Recent, Memories, and so on. You just Scroll up and down to find Albums.

You can tap on Albums to get a screen that has only albums in their folders. I just discovered that!

Does this work?

You can customize as well.

In Photos, scroll to very bottom and rearrange, add, remove view as you wish.

Favourites, for example is in Pinned so I prefer right under Library, Photos … along with my Albums.

FYI EVERYONE: I contacted Apple Support - new design - just open your photos and keep scrolling down and you will find your Album - not convenient or user-friendly at all, but it is there.

I was able to figure it out for me. I wanted my favorites and videos albums easily accessible. They are under “pinned collections” for some reason at the bottom where it gives you the options to customize and reorder. You can also add specific shared albums or whatnot. Not intuitive at all but was able to make it work in the end.