Photo “Albums” disappeared after updating to IOS 18

Lost my albums in photos , how do find them easily?

You still can't search correctly for albums! I only get half the results up at any given search and some albums don't appear in the search list at all!!! Although they are still there if i scroll down my hundreds of albums, they won't appear in album search! USELESS

Your photo update is awful. I can’t find my Christmas decorations album. I can’t go to year, month or day to try to find them. Other albums are gone. You randomly chose to delete albums I made for a reason and now most are gone. Whomever came up with this made a huge mistake!!!

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.

Hi Apple Community, in response to Photo Albums disappearing in iOS 18, I found this useful video that guides you to making Photos like they were in iOS 17. It also makes suggestions for new features to enhance the experience. The best part is it’s fully customizable.

I good this helps and eases frustrations…as I was one that experienced the same issue but was on a mission to find a solution.

https://youtu.be/SGBZLmp8T-Q?si=eUloMImBW1yDgZ2_

Japp, I absolutely agree. That drives me crazy. I learned the hard way after moving pictures to an album and then deleting in “recents”. It would be so much cleaner and organized if the picture simply moved to the folder and was no longer in recents.

To think I have paid Apple every month to store my photos and they have totally screwed up everything

35000 photos, once categorized in albums now scattered all over

is this some sort of sick, twisted game Apple?

FIX IT APPLE, I am furious! Most users have multiple devices, meaning we are loyal to the brand for a reason….this is not it. I made careful curated albums over the years. Now they are all gone and no solid answers on how to get them back… FIX IT!

Pominoz1974 wrote:

Same. I have albums missing, nowhere to be found and no, the pictures aren’t all back in my library. I’m devastated. Pregnancy, baby, wedding albums all gone

The fastest thing to do is probably jus reload them from your backup.

What hardly anyone addresses; it takes a long time for albums and photos to be synched back once iOS18 is installed. For me with over 100.000 photos it took more than two days for all albums and photos to rearrange.

Apple should have known this and warned their customers. No wonder people depending on their albums for work freaked out; when you are missing half of the albums, search functions for the album don't work, and photos in the albums are missing. To me it seems like after the two days everything is back, but the trust is lost!!!

margo m. wrote:

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

What album issue? The major "issue" seems to be that people haven't explored the app to see how things have be rearranged. Or having swiped to the bottom to "Customize & Reorder" to arrange things more to their liking.

Customize the Photos app on iPhone - Apple Support

If you have some other issue, please explain what it is.

Mhcookie1 wrote:

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😡

Omg, have you read any of the instructions for Photos? Have you swiped down to the bottom of the screen in Photos and made use of "Customize & Reorder?"

Customize the Photos app on iPhone - Apple Support

allecia128 wrote:

FIX IT APPLE, I am furious! Most users have multiple devices, meaning we are loyal to the brand for a reason….this is not it. I made careful curated albums over the years. Now they are all gone and no solid answers on how to get them back… FIX IT!

Apple doesn't read here in this user-to-user forum for feedback or suggestions. You can, however, let them know your thoughts here:

Product Feedback - Apple

Meanwhile, if there is an Apple Store near you, I suggest you make an appointment to have someone there show you how to use Photos. It's the sort of thing that's probably easier to do in person. Almost everyone I've interacted with who thought their albums are gone has discovered they weren't.

oana135 wrote: "Yes the albums are there but mine most of them are empty . My pictures from the albums disappeared 😡😡😡I have been using iPhone for years . My next phone will be android . I am so p… off"

oana ~ We're all just users here, so:

Feedback - Photos - Apple

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No! Those are the albums from my MacBook- VERY Different from the ones I had in my phone! Any ideas?