Cannot locate my Albums in Photos. HELP!
iPhone 11 Pro Max, iOS 18
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?
Re iOS 18 and loss of albums in photos. If you scroll down to ALBUMS and hold your finger on the word your albums will appear when you remove it.
open photo app, scroll down to bottom @ customise & reorder.
click on the albums radio button & your albums will reappear
After hours with Apple Support giving logs and escalating the issue, this problem was resolved for me in their 18.2.1 update!
I’ve got my photos and albums back!
just scroll to the bottom after opening photos, and click on Albums.
I figured it out. Go all the way down to customize. Check what you want to view. I turned my albums on and now I see all of them. This took over 2 hours to figure out…sheesh!!!
I found that the only way to get an album to reappear, is to search for its name, change the sort order, change the sort order back to what it was and then the missing album appears at the end of the list of albums.
Thank you so so much! I found my albums at the end of Pinned Collections! What a relief! A bit of a rigmarole to find quickly though!!
The albums are still there……scroll to bottom of photos…tap customize and reorder and reset your preferred view !
Ok, found it, it is in Pinned Collections
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.
If you go to the pinned collections and scroll all the way to the right side, my albums were in a box at the right end.
the only option is to search for the album by name, then it shows up.
We all have different issues. The 'one' thing that helped me is that for one of my missing albums (an important one) that contains photos of my drivers license and insurance cards and passport and credit cards... (called DOCUMENTS), is that I can search for that one album and find it intact. Just use the binocular search feature.
Still, a terrible update.
Two comments.
1) If you remember the name of an album, you can search for it. Helpful for me since one important album has photos of important docs (drivers license, passport…)
2) Even though my albums have disappeared, I can select any random photo that is not in any album, then select to ADD it to an album, and all my previously disappeared albums are displayed. Weird.
Not a solution, though, maybe a clue?
Just take a photo. Then go to the photo taking screen and you will see your most recently taken picture. Tap on it to get to it and chose save to album and you’ll get to your old albums. I’m a total rookie so please post how you are doing from here.
Photo “Albums” disappeared after updating to IOS 18
