Photos 4+

The organization of photos is confusing right now. I would like to organize my albums by different metrics like alphabetical or most rcently updated/added to rather than date created. Also what does pinning do? Doesnt seem to make a difference. The gesture controls are too sensitive on my iPhone 14 as well - it is so easy to close out of an album when youre just trying to scroll. I also dont like the card visualization of the albums with the drop shadow bc it adds more visual clutter and makes me feel like I have to do more work to look through my list of albums even though it is just a visual treatment. Would love a redesign to make it cleaner visually and easier to arrange in a way that is useful to me. Also strongly dislike the preview huge image that was default to albums but figured out how to turn that off so thats great. Im sure different people have different preferences but that added no value to me and just meant I had to scroll more. I do really like the way that my most recently-edited album is suggested when I select a photo to add to an album - super nice to have the shortcut as well as the ability to choose which album to add to. I also like the selection mechanism where I can drag my finger and select huge amounts of pics - can be easy to do accidentally but easy to undo as well and helps for situations where Im trying to add large amounts of pics to other places!

There’s a lot that I love about this standard Apple app and I use it more than any other photo app, but I’m starting to use it less and less due to lots of bugs and glitches with the last few updates from 2024. Lately, I’m finding issues when I’m editing photos, particularly if I’m trying to add text. Also seeing a lot with video editing so I use a different app for that now too.
I do all the things that I can, including restarting my phone, deleting the photo retaking the photo (if that’s possible). In the end, it’s a lot more work to try to use this app and work around its glitches, and I really feel Apple should be doing better to address it.
Alternatively, I’m having to go to other applications to do what I feel Apple should be doing to address the glitches but months go by and the same bugs still seem to be happening. When I spend a tremendous amount of money on my device and I just want the standard Apple photo app to work as well as it used to… it’s a disappointment. I do hold Apple to a high standard as I’ve been an Apple customer since 2009. I’ve seen their customer service slip in the last 5 years or so too, which is also disappointing. I hope devs read this and address the glitches and bugs please. Please do better. I want to love my iPhone apps like I used to.

I’ve been using the photos app as long as I can remember, and I’ve loved it so much. The tabs made navigation so great, where you switch switch from your main photos library quickly to searching something up that you remembered, than going back exactly where you were in your photos library. I just loved how there were multiple pages too- everything was so organized and perfect. You could also see the most recent photo in your albums nice and big like always. But now, I can’t stand this everything in one page design. Multitasking within the photos app is ruined, making it so hard to go from viewing photos in your main library to searching something up and then looking at photos in your albums all at the same time by the click of a tab change. So so upset about this. The old app had nostalgia to it too as I’ve literally been using it since i was a kid - i’m 17 now and got my first iphone when I was 10. There’s nothing about this redesign of the photos app that I like. Its downgraded so much, becoming more complex by attempting to simplify it. It’s also worth noting how glitchy it is, as it keeps freezing while I’m searching and opening photo albums. Please please PLEASE bring back the old app, or at least an option in settings where you can bring the old app design back, similar to how you can switch your safari tab view in settings. Please. 🙏