As you know for the slightly more serious photographer, the photos app on IOS 18 was destroyed. Its ability to see the Recent (Camera Roll) photos as an album was removed. This was an essential feature and now that it's gone the Photos app is useless. What is the best replacement? A replacement app should be able to view albums and treat Camera Roll as a independent album. Advice is appreciated. Thanks.
iPhone 15 Pro Max, iOS 18
I am deeply disappointed with the new design. As an iPhone user for 13 years, with over 200,000 photos stored on my device, this feels like a major letdown. It seems that Apple is increasingly starting to resemble Android, which is a huge step backward in my opinion. A big minus from me.
Smart move. I wish I had known to do this. Now I’m stuck with the “new” Photos format that appears to have been designed by a 5th columnists from Android.
That is NOT the same as Recents. The Library contains EVERYTHING, whereas the previous Recents did not. Library includes all my synced albums and photos, whereas previous version of Recents/Roll did not. Library is unweildly when you have 100,000+ synced photos.
The changes to Recents do only matter for those users who prefer the manual syncing of photos and videos to the syncing with iCloud Photos. The manual syncing has always been somewhat restrictive, because the synced photos are stored separately and cannot be deleted directly on the device. They have been treated as second class item all along.
The upgrade to iOS 18 has made the limitations for manually synced items worse - the new Recents albums do no longer double as a camera roll and the synced albums in in "From My Mac" are having new issues and are no longer visible when trying to share photos to some apps.
None of this is an issue, when we are using iCloud Photos for syncing the photos between or devices - then all photos and albums are equal and there are no longer "second class" manually synced photos complicating things. Photos on iOS 18 has clearly been designed to be used with iCloud Photos for syncing. If you do not want to go down this road, you really need to find a replacement app.
Done that many times.
They never fix things they ruin though, so looking for alternatives.
Also, if write about the alternative I found for the Mac, or that I’d create an alternative myself if I had the time, then suddenly my session is expired and I can’t save the reply…
THANK YOU. Ive been looking for another photographer in here! You have my thoughts exactly and I really do hope that this 'endless scroll feature' for albums goes away soon
Joseph Www wrote:
That is probably why that mass of photos appears in a random order regardless of how you press that Sort button.
The Library is ordered by either Recently Added or Date Captured. You have the option of ascending or descending.
e it does, and more. Might do it differently, but it does. I'm sure if you take the time to try it out even you will figure it out.
And again: Further I'm not telling anyone to use it. I was asked to name an alternative. I did.
No iOS app available? What on earth is this?
https://apps.apple.com/ie/app/lightroom-photo-editor/id878783582
or here
https://www.adobe.com/ie/products/photoshop-lightroom/mobile.html
Or what is that app on my iPhone and iPad? Gee I dunno. Is that it on my AppleTV too?
Further I'm not telling anyone to use it. I was asked to name an alternative. I did.
Joseph Www wrote:…Its ability to see the Recent (Camera Roll) photos as an album was removed.
Of course, you could just sort the Library by Recents.
Seems just as good as Recents to me…
Recent Days for me did not show photos in Camera Roll. The most recent photo was June, four months old.
There is no replacement app available. Basically it matters to everybody that's the whole point of the complaints here. The Yer man suggestions do not help the complaints as they are written.
Darkroom is not free, only "free" to try.
Then stop telling people to use an app when you are well aware there is no iOS app available.
Adobe Lightroom does not do what the old photos app does in ios17 and before. It is not helpful to suggest people use something that is different.
Adobe Lightroom is not really free, and it is not a good replacement.
Best photos app replacement for IOS 18
