iOS 18 is not okay
I’ve never written a review before, but my phone just updated to iOS 18, and now I am so full of hatred for it because navigating the photos app is absolutely impossible. Before the update, there were tabs that were so user friendly and easy to organize for yourself. Now, everything is on one page, and you have to endlessly scroll in order to find anything. Also, scrolling through the app isn’t even easy since the the app will pause at certain spots, probably to stop at the different “regions” that would have normally been under different tabs, but it just makes the whole experience clunky and almost glitchy. It treats the albums you create as if they don’t matter, and it’s so hard to find them. It’s so frustrating because in a way it can be considered not disability friendly. I say this because the text and photos are so much smaller and it’s hard to read because of it. You can no longer adjust the number of photos per row so that the pictures are bigger or smaller, or if you can, the settings are not clear enough to understand. Overall, this is by far the worst apple update I’ve ever seen in my life. In all other updates, there have been some sort of positive change that outweighs the negative, but this one has only been a huge step back in the name of unnecessary “progress”.
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Why does touching it make it tiny every time
Echoing others here; this app was better before. Bought a new phone that came preinstalled with iOS 18. Trying to get used to it, but what’s driving me nuts at the moment is the videos— I hate this “tiny” mode thing it does now instead of filling the whole screen by default and showing controls around the edges like it did previously. If I have a video in full screen but need to scrub backwards for a previous part (I do this often when learning dances for class), I have to tap the screen twice every time, otherwise it goes back into tiny picture mode. I can’t imagine a reason why this app got worse than it was.
I’m also not a fan of the full scroll screen thing; that’s just kind of stupid. After being conditioned to use computer files that get compartmentalized into folders for decades, why on Earth would it feel smarter to put everything into one long scroll?? Who wrote this??
I’m also not a fan of the full scroll screen thing; that’s just kind of stupid. After being conditioned to use computer files that get compartmentalized into folders for decades, why on Earth would it feel smarter to put everything into one long scroll?? Who wrote this??
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Why did you update
The new update is sooo not user friendly and it makes it so frustrating to use photos. If I’m looking through a bunch of photos I can’t quickly reference back to an album or recently deleted without losing my spot. Having to scroll all the way down to access albums everytime makes for a very frustrating experience. It’s so impractical and I don’t know why you would’ve changed it. Please please change it back. The previous version was seamless and didn’t need changing.
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