How to Use the New Photos App in iOS 18

The radical change Apple made to the Photos app in iOS 18 doesn’t seem to have gone down too well. In fact, yesterday at 7pm social media was filled with users criticising the new design, layout and lack of consistency. The overall trend is not good, although we already told you you’d have to deal with this application for a long time. For this reason, even knowing that Apple messed up a little, we will tell you how to understand and use it correctly.

First things first: Apple didn’t create a hugely complex Photos app in iOS 18. Yes, it is very different from the previous one.so the change is radical and requires training to cope with it. This is an application that has seen little change in recent years, so as expected, such a big modification wreaks havoc.

Now with a couple of questions and tricks you will understand perfectly How does this work and after a couple of weeks of daily use, you’ll get used to the new interface. And while photos in iOS 18 may seem overwhelming, the reality is that they have new setting which makes it a great app. We’ll talk about it at the end.

One page, no tabs

First off, here’s the most striking thing: As soon as you open the Photos app in iOS 18, you’ll realize that no more tabs in the lower area. Apple made scrolling continuous and combined all these sections on one page. The latest photos appear at the top, and going down, you will find a large number of sections, both new and old known.

‘Last days‘, ‘People and pets‘, ‘Pinned Collections‘, ‘Memories‘and for a long time and so on. All these elements will now be on the main page, filling the screen with various photos, faces, screenshots, text, animation and mix of images of different sizes.

Really, it’s chaosNow, as with everything in life, you need to get used to these new sections, remember where they are located, and what movements you need to make to get to them.

You must understand that everything that was previously divided into several sections now collected on one pageSo there will be sections you’ve never used before that you’ll now see every day in the iOS 18 Photos app.

Timeline Mess in iOS 18 Photos

Okay, there are still a lot of things now, but the way view photos Everything is going as usual, right? Well, no. The iOS 18 Photos app has done something very curious. In recent photos — which Apple calls the “Photo Library” — the timeline is presented in a top-down format, meaning the first image that comes up is in the bottom right corner — This is the last thing you did. And, as always, to see the old images, you need to download them.

Well, Apple decided that it was in albums it will be the other way around‘Last days‘,’People‘ or when you select a specific content type, such as ‘Selfie‘ or ‘Video‘. Once you enter one of these sections, you will find that the chronology is on the opposite sideso now the first frame that appears is the oldestthat is, to get to the very last one, you have to go down to the end. In addition, the grid changes the layout, leaving more space between the thumbnails.

This is one of the most important changes to the Photos app in iOS 18 because Never before has an album shown chronology in this way.. In fact, it is not the best, but it is much more confusing. It is extremely important to know this detail and understand it, so as not to fall apart when entering each of the different sections.

A blessed setting in the Photos app for iOS 18.

All of the above could have been much more dramatic, incredibly large, but Apple gave users vital tool something they never had before: personalization. If you do this scrolling and scroll down to the bottom, you will find the “Customize and reorder” button.

Luckily, with this useful option you can change the position of elements and delete the ones you are not interested in. So we recommend that you spend 5 minutes learning what parts you need and how you are going to use them so that you can rearrange them correctly and have an interface to your liking.

In fact, if you are not a fan of the albums and everything else that has been implemented, you have the option to remove all the elements and Stay with a completely clean Photos app in iOS 18 which only shows your latest images and videos. The server has already done this and it looks like this.