iOS 18 Has a Solution to iPhone’s Biggest Photo Problem

There’s a feature in iOS 18 that’s gone a little unnoticed, but it’s incredibly useful. You can actually mark before and after on loss of images and videos for no apparent reason. This is a new album integrated into the Photos app called Recovered and includes all the content that for some reason was not saved correctly in the gallery.

Until now, when a camera app or a third-party app didn’t process an image correctly, This can be categorized as damaged or lost.a situation that permanently destroyed it and made it unusable. In fact, this treatment of corrupted files is linked to the controversy over old photos and videos that magically reappeared in iOS 17.5.

Now, thanks to iOS 18, all of this content will have a designated place in the Photos app. It Album “Restored” It will be responsible for storing all those photos and videos that are lost, partially deleted or damaged due to the use of a third-party application. And of course, if they are saved, then they will be available, which means, subject to compensation.

And this is where the real benefit lies, because until now, if a third-party app damaged a photo, it was lost forever. This won’t happen in iOS 18: if it does, the photo will go into the “Recovered” album and can be easily restored to return to the gallery. You just need to take into account a couple of details:

• The new “Recovered” album will appear in the Photos app only when there is an image to integrate into it. If nothing is damaged or missing you will not be able to access You won’t even see it in stock.
• Moreover, it is not only available on iPhone with iOS 18, but also has a place in iPadOS 18 and MacOS Sequoia.
• The new album will share ground with “Eliminado” and will not interfere with your useThe photo you deleted will not be placed in the Recovered folder.

Be prepared to see lost photos when updating to iOS 18.

To make matters worse, Apple has confirmed that updating to iOS 18 – or equivalent software on iPad and Mac – iPhone will search for recoverable photos and videos stored on the system. That is, after installing a new OS, you might have an album called “Recovered” full of unexpected content which you lost at the time or was damaged during the saving process.

For now, unless you install the betas, you’ll have to wait for the update to iOS 18. Apple announced the operating system at WWDC 2024, but it The official and stable rollout will not happen before Septemberprobably along with the next iPhone 16.