Photos User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience21.2% of reviews
Neutral9.3% of reviews
Negative experience69.4% of reviews

~ Based on 3,488 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Photos Safe?

Photos has mixed safety signals based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Photos is 60/100.

This assessment is based on 13,567 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.0/5.

Safety Analysis

46.3% of ratings point to a safe experience
6.9% of ratings suggest some concerns
46.8% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 12,629 App Store ratings for Photos.

Is Photos Legit?

Photos appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Photos is 100/100.

Based on 100 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

How can something so simple be made so complicated, hard to use, AND devoid of features?!

It’s absurd how bad this is given the years of understanding of apps like these ought to function, and as the staple of Apple nonetheless. UI choices are making me regret getting an iPhone every day…

Safety filter can’t be turned off

I dislike that when I am editing a photo, the app decides I need to use the safety filter. I am an adult. That is unnecessary. If want to show a little nip that’s my choice, now let me edit the background without pixelating everything….

Bring back old photos 😔✌️

Give me back old photos or Im using google photos

Icloud sync is really bad

It takes way too long for it to automatically sync photos between devices. Even the sync now button does not appear most of the time. It is easier to just upload videos and photos to google drive manually. That way I know they will be in every device when I need them. And if you try to edit a photo you lose the transparent background, long gone are the days where apple was for creative work.
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Pictures

Delete

Made by Apple

Really cool product made by Apple! You can put real life experiences on this one app and save it! Also if you want to have a photo of what’s happening on your screen just screenshot it!

No security WHATSAPP AND OTHER APPS CAN DIRECTLY VIEW ALL OF YOUR PHOTOS DESPITE THE FAKE PRIVACY

There are NO privacy controls to protect your personal photos from whatsapp AND APPLE U CLAIM TO BE PRIVACY FOCUSED 😒

Stuck syncing. No details.

I am really tired of seeing my iCloud saying that it’s syncing items and it appears to be stuck. When I try to troubleshoot it I cannot see what photos/videos are the issue. Just tired of Apple being a “premium” brand but lacks basic functionality. I have a 1gb fiber connection and no reason that this should take so long and not have any way to troubleshoot the actual cause. When I call an Apple support, they can’t help you either. You literally have to guess and check every single photo that you’ve taken over the past month or two to be able to figure out what the issue is. Just tired of this app and Apple more and more each day.
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Super bad at this complication stuff

I like photos but not when it comes to messages = photos so I was saving a video but for some reason it WOULD NOT SHOW UP IN LIBRARY so I crashed out and was like “why is this stupid thing not working!!!!” and then my mom told me it could be in videos but that makes absolutely ZERO sense why won’t it just show up in library NORMALLY, Apple please fix this 😭😭😭
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Takes a bit of storage away

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What I like about photos…

What can I say about the photos app? To start it’s pretty good,I can take videos and pictures with this app obviously.I like how it’s add free.What I don’t like about it is when it tells me when my storage is full.It’s honestly annoying.And another thing I don’t like about it is some of my pictures are fuzzy,and I don’t know if that’s me or if it’s the app,so could that be fix please?Now for the thangs I do like about this app.On a show GOOD LUCK CHAIRLE
the older sister makes life lesson videos for her younger sister Chairle and anyway I have started making life lessons videos and I use the photos app to do so.So love that.
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Can’t delete

This app refuses to put my most recent photos at the top. I have to scroll endlessly to the bottom. What is worse, I absolutely can’t delete the app. I am sure that it is an APPLE+GOOGLE issue but both companies are proving to be useless

ERROR: deleting my photos for GOOD!☹️

I like the app “photos”, but I give it a one star because the photos are deleted! Even my pikachu one! Can you fix it?

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يعععع ما يخليني أصور كل ساعة مساحة😤

organization

good but i wish that we could put our photos into folders without them still being visible in the ‘all’ thing. odd complaint but seeing them all messy stresses me out and the folders don’t fully fold them away

Nearly unusable

The update within the last year extremely complicated the app, it is so hard to find even your latest photo let alone anything else. It is overcrowded and counterintuitive. Please change it.

Awful

Every update makes this dumb app more difficult to navigate. Apple really has no ideas anymore and are just changing things for the sake of an another “update”. As monotonous as each iteration of the iphone.

Lock aspect ratio

Whoever came up with the idea to lock the aspect ratio as a default should be fired.

Google Photos is far better

Doesn’t sync properly, they want to force you to buy storage. Search engine is stupid, can’t recognize a green rock for example. Then can’t remove or uninstall.

Duplicates

It needs some serious updates like say the duplicate detection thing it takes forever to identify duplicates