Photos Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience21.7% of reviews
Neutral9.5% of reviews
Negative experience68.9% of reviews

~ Based on 3,638 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Photos

Is Photos Safe?

Photos has mixed safety signals based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Photos is 62/100.

This assessment is based on 15,954 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.1/5.

Safety Analysis

48.8% of ratings point to a safe experience
6.8% of ratings suggest some concerns
44.3% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 15,879 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

Non functioning after iOS 27.0.1

Nothing is working after the latest iOS update. New photos aren’t appearing. Photos won’t upload to Picsart, just a spinning wheel that I have to force shut to get out of. Also don’t appear in album after using other editing apps. I rely on Photos for work & if it doesn’t function I can’t work. Very frustrating. I absolutely dread iOS updates, there should be an option for security patches only, so users don’t have to deal with all of these dreadful aesthetic changes that just make my eyes sore. I’m a loyal Apple customer though very dissatisfied with updates that aren’t user friendly. You should terminate the employees responsible for iOS updates as there’s no use having an iPhone that doesn’t execute simple steps.
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Please change it

I wish that Photos could edit the same why CapCut can edit things

No search and sort by File name feature

It's honestly insulting how the most common and useful way of looking up files is not here after all these years. I should easily be able to look up a photo by its file name and be able to edit it whenever I please. Photo tags do not count because they're not part of the file names.

At the very least have the file names copy over to the tag and caption features so I don't have to manually sort through all those images myself.

Make it so I can also change multiple photo names simultaneously like I can on my mac.

These feature should've been added a long time ago, and not having it makes sorting through my images harder that it ought to be.
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Search not working

I updated my phone and noticed that search picture not working

HEIC still sucks

I use my phone for business reasons. Today I went to export pictures to a Google Drive and they all went to HGIC format which many of the companies that I work with cannot support. Why do you not give me the option to go 100% JPG?

Keeps getting worse

I don’t even have words for how bad you’ve made the photo organization. Your photo app makes me want to throw my phone at a wall. You should fire everyone on the design team

I can’t decide if I like it or not

I love this app but when I was just about finished with my first tracing of a screenshot I pressed the tick button and it said that there was an error with saving the screenshot so I pressed the okay button and it deleted all of my work on that screenshot I am so mad and sad right now please fix this bug
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I need more control

You can copy a photo from the main view into a Collection, but i strongly need the option to move the photo out of the main view into the Collection. Also, it is extremely annoying that when i look at a Collection, there is automatically a continuously moving carousel of photos at the top. I wish i could hide it or delete it, or at the very least, make it stop rotating/moving. Several Google apps fail to give enough control to the user, in my opinion.
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When to fire the whole department designing the poorest app?

I come back to see if this whole department is fired.

Just use a browser

Storing my photos here, bought the extra storage, but don't want this app to suck all the photos off my device every time I open it. Can't turn that feature off and still use the app! Open a browser, type google.photos, log in and it's much easier to choose which photos to save, create a shareable album, etc. Really should be able to just turn that feature off.
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Crashing?

I’ve never experienced this before. My photos app has crashed multiple times in 3 days.

Moving Photos

Please allow moving photos to be turned off in settings. Not Live Photos those can be turned off but the separately moving background and subject is soooo annoying, everyone I know hates it. No other photo display app forces this on people and it is so frustrating to have to transfer all my photos into Google Photos just to enjoy viewing them. Please fix this
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تطبيق

سيء أواجه مشاكل.

Bro 🫩

Storage full. Takes up 18 gb and I only have 100 smth photos.

If no one else will talk about the new and improved camera, allow me

I love the new editing tools that photos had once you upgraded to iOS 27 beta, it makes editing photos a lot easier, when I first upgraded it would only allow you to do things like edit photos with higher quality (which does a fairly decent job, still could use improvements) and expanding the frame, it would only let me use these at random parts of the day before saying “Their was an error.” But it’s doing better!
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Safe app……

I love katseye like so much I especially like gnarly

Colour picker not working

Colour picker doesn’t work for some reason

Editing is not working

not working

Photo app sucks

BRO PHOTOS GLITCHED AND NOW IS TAKING MORE STORAGE THEN ALL MY APPS COMBINED (excluding photos) HOW DO I DELETE IT

Fallo en los filtros

Al editar una imagen y colocar un filtro, este cambia el color de la imagen de manera anormal, cosa que no sucedía en versiones anteriores de iOS. Filtros de B\N emite unas tonalidades verdosas en la fotografía, y filtros como Vivido frío o Dramático se comportan de manera incorrecta.