Can’t search photo albums in iOS 18

It’s pretty clear that Apple hired 10-year-old to write iOS 18 and they didn’t test anything. as a longtime iPhone user, I will say without any hesitation whatsoever that this is the absolute worst version of iOS to have ever been released.

Same for me, in the gallery, iOS 18 can’t search by album, which means it’s not user-friendly. What’s the point if you can’t search by album and have to go through each one manually? It’s not user-friendly at all.

Exactly. Losing the ability to search by album name has rendered the photo app very useless.

Who would do that? Was there not a design review? A re-design review?

They took something really simple and made the layout noisy and the whole thing a complete mess.

It can find like 1% of my albums, but the rest it cannot.

Changing just for the sake of changing is nonsense.

The same for me. And Captions. I can’t search by any caption that I’ve added to a photo. I use mainly keywords as captions so I can easily find a category of photos and now I can’t. Very frustrating

ios18 photo app search mode is a serious downgrade. As someone who heavily uses photos app as well as the iPhone camera my album traces back to 2014 via iCloud and has over 50,000+ photos and videos. The fact that when I search people now or essential things in our outside my home I get on average no results. Things like “plants” “pizza” “guitars” and a persons name it shows me on average 0 or at most 28 when I have hundreds that use to come up on any prior OS.

about to revert back to 17.7

I use the photo apps in my esthetics business. Each client has their own album titled by their name. I have over 2000 clients and I’m unable to search their info which I’ve organized over the last 8 years. This has been detrimental to my business. Is there a solution to this HUGE oversight?

Im having exactly the see issue. It’s frustrating

C-A-P-T-I-O-N-S no longer appear in Search results on iOS 18. This is a disaster for me because I use captions like tags and search for them all day long

I have exactly the same issue after ios 18 update in my iPad . I cannot find the album by name .i have hundreds of albums.I am a doctor and I have stored patient reports and photos in an album by their names .i cannot search their records on follow up visit . Who should I approach to solve this problem . I have contacted apple support but they do not seem to have a solution. I bought the iPad to just store photos and now this update renders this product useless . I hope apple fixes this issue as soon as possible.

I have the exact same problem. Searching my captions is useless now. Any search also shows very small thumbnails that I can barely see the content. My photos app is now very useless to me

Same to me. I am a doctor and I can no longer find a photo by a specific date or by the name of the disease that I registered before. This is terrible and has messed up my life and I hope it is a temporary error in the application. I hope they fix this problem soon.

This is totally pathetic, i am not able to search my photos which are in albums. Please revert this, this change makes photos a mess

I have hundreds of albums organized for my work with their respective titles. I would use search to locate the album I needed. I just upgraded to the iPhone 16 max with iOS 18 and the search function will NOT include albums. I have to literally scroll through hundreds of albums to find the one I’m looking for. This is so inefficient for my work 😭. Has anyone found a solution? TY!