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User profile for user: wynford
wynford Author
User level: Level1 100 points
I do NOT like what Apple did to the Photos in iOS 18... I can not find the Camera Roll. Closest is Recent Days, but it does not show all the pictures that were on the Camera Roll. I have to use a third party app on my PC to see the photos. I think Apple screwed up somewhere. Come on Apple, put Camera Roll back the way it used to be and the way it should be.
iPhone SE, iOS 18
Posted on Sep 17, 2024 6:41 AM
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User profile for user: weber88
weber88
User level: Level1 52 points
Posted on Sep 17, 2024 10:19 PM
I need this back ASAP. The way I use photos is completely broken now. I need a place to see all photos that are on my iphone and have not yet been transferred off my device.
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User profile for user: weber88
weber88
User level: Level1 52 points
Sep 17, 2024 10:19 PM in response to wynford
I need this back ASAP. The way I use photos is completely broken now. I need a place to see all photos that are on my iphone and have not yet been transferred off my device.
*** EVERYONE Request it to come back here Feedback - Photos - Apple ***
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User profile for user: Antonia5314
Antonia5314
User level: Level1 54 points
Sep 18, 2024 12:33 PM in response to wynford
I couldn't agree more. While the new photos app is ok in itself, removing the camera roll was the worst decision someone ever made! I want to see what is in my camera roll and only my camera roll! I don't want to hunt through hundreds of photos I sync'd over to my phone. I want to see what is in my camera roll only. And the only way I see this possible, is by literally removing any photos from the phone that are not in the camera roll. No more saved albums with my favorite photos if I want to be able to find what's in the camera roll.
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User profile for user: railroadme
railroadme
User level: Level1 67 points
Sep 19, 2024 5:03 AM in response to Phil0124
That is not correct! I move pictures off my phone to my laptop and then sync them back into folders. The camera roll/recents contained everything I have not synced back. The library is now just EVERYTHING, there isn't a way to differentiate between what is on the phone and what has been synced back, it's all together. Many of need the functionality of the old camera roll/recent for the way we organize things.
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User profile for user: RainbowLau
RainbowLau
User level: Level1 38 points
User profile for user: m1237
m1237
User level: Level1 56 points
Sep 19, 2024 8:26 AM in response to Lawrence Finch
I don't think you understand the issue here, the problem is that in the new Library all of the pictures are mixed together, the camera roll pictures as well as the pictures already synced to albums in our Macs. We need the camera roll back where we could see only the pictures that we hadn't yet synced to the computer. I had pictures there that I hadn't wanted to sync that were from a year ago and now I can't find them because they're mixed in together with all the rest and I would have to go through literally hundreds of pictures to find them. Apple needs to bring the Camera Roll back ASAP!!!!
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User profile for user: m1237
m1237
User level: Level1 56 points
Sep 19, 2024 8:35 AM in response to Lawrence Finch
They are the same thing only if you never sync your photos to your computer, otherwise they are most definitely not. For us who do sync our pictures to the computer, the "camera roll" or "recents" folder only kept the pictures taken on your phone that had not yet been synced. For people who sync not being able to have those pics separate can be a real issue.
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User profile for user: 9786
9786
User level: Level1 26 points
Sep 28, 2024 3:09 AM in response to m1237
I totally agree - Camera Roll is sacred - I don’t need Apple’s idea of what is important to Me! I have 84,000 photos all in my iphone mostly already categorised in folders which I have specially created and synced.
I don’t want to have to negotiate those albums on my camera roll. Keep it simple Apple as before.
Camera roll is Camera Roll - not All Roll ! !
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User profile for user: Antonia5314
Antonia5314
User level: Level1 54 points
Sep 18, 2024 12:37 PM in response to Phil0124
No it's not. The camera roll was literally everything you took with the camera and screen shot that had not been moved off the device. No it's "library" which is EVERYTHING, including pictures you moved off the device, added to a folder and added back to the phone. Camera roll and library are two completely different things.
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User profile for user: tom_993
tom_993
User level: Level1 47 points
Sep 19, 2024 11:46 AM in response to wynford
You can see the camera roll from the camera app, not the photos app. But you can’t see them in a grid. You have to delete them one by one. There’s no way (at least that I’ve found) to select a bunch (or all) and delete in bulk.
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User profile for user: Dandelion1
Dandelion1
User level: Level1 111 points
Sep 19, 2024 7:10 AM in response to wynford
I've just tried this on my iPhone 13 and there isn't a small picture in the bottom left corner of the Camera app. If I tap on that (empty) location, I get a blank screen with text in the centre, saying "No Photos or Videos ...". In the top right corner of this screen is an "All Photos" button. Clicking on it, takes me to the Library. Going back to the Camera app, if I take a photo, then the corresponding thumbnail appears in the bottom left corner. When I tap on it, the photo appears. When I go back to the Camera app, the photo is gone and the text "No Photos or Videos ..." is displayed in the top right corner. The new photo is now present in the Library.
I desperately need the Camera Roll aka Recents functionality. As others have said, having the unsorted photos mixed up with photos I've synced from my Mac is useless.
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User profile for user: Dandelion1
Dandelion1
User level: Level1 111 points
Sep 19, 2024 8:40 AM in response to m1237
Well said.
Lots of people are reporting here that the Recents (aka Camera Roll) functionality has disappeared from the Photos app with iOS 18. Others are stating that it has not. Assuming that we are all rational beings, there must be an explanation for these different perceptions. I think that the most likely explanation lies in the different ways people use the Photos app. For example, some people sync their photos to iCloud, while others (including me) do not. This would result in differing user experiences. Similarly, some people sync some of their photos from their Macs (or other devices) to their phones and others do not. That too would result in differing user experiences. There may be yet other differences in the use of the Photos app which would affect this issue.
The bottom line, however, is that for a sizeable number of users iOS 18 (including me) has introduced a catastrophic change. Some people on this forum report that they have found a workaround, using the Camera app. Unfortunately, this does not work on my phone (as I have mentioned earlier). I have no idea why.
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User profile for user: Heatjoey
Heatjoey
User level: Level1 20 points
Sep 19, 2024 5:35 AM in response to Phil0124
not true. it's very different now because those of us that move pictures out of "camera roll" or recents , would normally not have anything in the "library" or camera roll except the pictures taken that were not moved to a folder. I do this for a few reasons, one of which is that I have a backup on my pc of the files but more than that is because that's how I did it originally and if I removed them now, you cannot put the pics back in the 'library' or whatever it's now called.
so i have to leave it like this and now I have a zillion pics in there that I have to scroll through to see the recent pics I took.
if you want to call it recent instead of cameral roll that's fine but that "folder" is needed back to only house the pics recently taken and nothing else. not sure how people can say it's the same its not for us that have files organized differently and that cant change that. I don't want to scroll through 10,000 pics to pull up the one I just took a few minutes ago.
the only work around now is the camera method then click on the pic thumbnails at the bottom but you still can't view them properly you can only scroll left to right,
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User profile for user: lynnmiss65
lynnmiss65
User level: Level1 30 points
Oct 6, 2024 12:41 AM in response to wynford
Please bring back our Camera Roll. I can't go thru 27,000 pics to find a picture I chose not to sync to my Mac. Please update this app to include the camera roll asap. If I had known this before,I would have never updated my phone.
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User profile for user: Lawrence Finch
Lawrence Finch
User level: Level10 209,966 points
Sep 18, 2024 5:32 AM in response to weber88
weber88 wrote:
I need this back ASAP. The way I use photos is completely broken now. I need a place to see all photos that are on my iphone and have not yet been transferred off my device.
*** EVERYONE Request it to come back here Feedback - Photos - Apple ***
Even better, just use the built in way. Put your finger on the photos showing near the top of the screen and drag down. That will change the view to the full camera roll (now called the “library”)
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User profile for user: weber88
weber88
User level: Level1 52 points
Sep 18, 2024 9:05 AM in response to wynford
This is not true. The camera roll shows photo taken on the iPhone. Library shows all photos in photos such as photos synced from my Mac and shared albums
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Where did the Camera Roll go in iOS 18
