Searching for photo album by name

I don't have any problems searching for an album name in iOS 18.1.1 on my iPhone. I just tap the little "magnifying glass" icon at the top of the main Photos screen and put in an album name and the appropriate albums come right up. So this is not working for you?

Which part of the album name are you searching for? I can find all albums, as long as I enter the full name of the album, or at least the beginning part of the name. But when I try to search for a later part of the album name, for example the second word of the name, no albums are found, only photos showing the search string as a text.

For example, I have two albums named "2025_02_07_Tromsø_Tag_01_Anreise" and "2025_02_12_Tromsø_Tag_06_Rückreise".

When I search for "2025_02", both albums are found. But searching for "Tromsø" will just find the photo of the ticket, not the album.

I tried searching for albums, and it worked for me, though in one case it missed an album--weird.

Try leaving the phone plugged in (maybe not wireless) and unused for a couple of nights to see if it makes a more complete scan.

Let us know…

léonie wrote: … when I try to search for a later part of the album name, for example the second word of the name, no albums are found…

When I said that my search missed an album, I was looking for "For Watch," an album I had maybe 10 days ago made for, well, my watch face. It didn't find "For Watch," but it found another album, "Old For Watch." So it missed the one starting with"For," but got one that had a different starting word. Hmm.