Photo “Albums” disappeared after updating to IOS 18

I was able to figure it out for me. I wanted my favorites and videos albums easily accessible. They are under “pinned collections” for some reason at the bottom where it gives you the options to customize and reorder. You can also add specific shared albums or whatnot. Not intuitive at all but was able to make it work in the end.

No, you see, that is exactly what didn't work. If I searched for albums only half of mine with a specific name showed up. Of course my panic was huge. After two days everything was back and sorted and album search yielded the correct result. But those two days; of course I assumed my albums were gone. Why did no one inform about the fact that it might take several days for you to have your photos and albums back after a software update??? Days in which my work was standing still.

No, mine are definitely not there. They are gone. Such a terrible way of not allowing the user to choose how they want their photos to be organized from a previous setup.

Go to All Photos and use your finger to drag UP and all your albums will be there … took me a while to find 👍

Please enable the album option. Important information was captured in albums for me. Due to the number of pictures and videos I take, organizing by subject is more efficient than year, and month. Thank you

_1984_ wrote:

Programmers! Top priority alert to fix the album snafu from latest iOS update 18.1. We are the end users of Apple products.Sales revenue from Apple products help pay your salaries. We do have other options….

Did you read any of the previous posts in this forum that explained Apple doesn't read here for feedback or suggestions? No, I didn't think so.

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I rang Apple Support who were v helpful. If you click on the word “Albums” then all the albums appear.

Except you can’t move the library and my phone pictures have all been reorganized and mixed in with photos from my pc. I spent hours organizing them how I wanted them and it’s all gone.

Ugh me too. I tried everything. So, happened I haven’t updated my old iPhone . It still has all the albums intact. Of all things that could have been updated . Like, why the photo album 😫🥺😩

No, you can't. I have an album named "curtains", I can see it if I scroll down my hundreds of albums. But in search mode I get: "no albums" USELESS

i found all my albums immediately, it's the search function that doesn't find the albums by name, that's my problem, and it's a big one!!!

That feature is not working for me

tge only way to find my album with the photos i know are there is if I scroll through my 1,300 albums one at a time. Ridiculous

This is RIDICULOUS. Fix this album issue!!!! Why do you have to ruin things in updates!

Omg I hate the iOS 18 update my pics are all over the place when I open my pics all my pics show up I hate it I was trying to uninstall but it will not give me the option I hate it I hate it😡

False. They are not, and the ones that are there are wiped of all the ohotos