And it is not surprising. The enormous changes that have been applied in the iphone gallery They have been quite controversial, to put it mildly. Many users have expressed frustration with the new design, complaining about missing features (some of which are not actually missing, but hidden) and difficulty finding what they are looking for.
If you come from previous versions of the operating system, you don’t need to look too hard to see what has changed. While the old Photos app had four tabs at the bottom of the interface (Library, For you, Albums and Search), the new interface is tabless and places all content on one raw, vertically scrolling page.
The bad news is that there is no way to go back to the old iOS 17 Photos appbut by tapping here and there, you can make it more practical and find everything you need more easily.
Bring order to the chaotic iOS 18 gallery
Remember that the Library is now the same as the Recents interface that previously housed all your images. Just scroll up the screen to see all the images, just like you could with the previous Photos app. But since you don’t have tabs, you have to reorganize the content offered by the Apple app a little.
The solution is to scroll to the bottom of the Photos app to customize the gallery to your liking. To do this, when you reach the end, you just have to press the «Customize and reorder«. Here, you’ll see a list of collections that you can reorder or hide if you prefer to keep them in a dark place out of sight. This, although it does not replace the shortcomings present in the iOS 18 galleryit should at least help the app feel a little more organized to your liking.
However, if what you want is just to see, as before, the camera rollyou may need to stop using the Photos app and enter the Camera app. As one user noted, “the old camera roll isn’t gone, it’s just now only accessible from the Camera app.”
But of course, This Reel does not offer a grid formatbut at least it does give us access to our most recent photos, allowing us to scroll through the latest captures one by one.
Another alternative to the Reel of the older versions of iOS is to go to the section “Recent days”, although it is not a perfect replacement and it is not an organization system that users have fallen in love with.
Today, with iOS 18.2 eIn the foreground, many users continue to ask Apple to return the old camera roll view instead of this library garbage, but it seems that, for now, those from Cupertino are not up to the task.
