# Photos — user reviews > 3,488 indexed App Store user reviews of Photos by Apple, rated 3.01/5 from 13,567 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/photos/id1584215428/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/photos/id1584215428.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 4,833 · 4★ 1,020 · 3★ 869 · 2★ 844 · 1★ 5,063 ## What do users think of Photos? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🚀 Innovative features - 💡 Customization options - 👍 Intuitive user interface - 👍 Seamless photo/video management - 🚀 Efficient photo organization **Cons** - 🐛 Buggy and glitchy - 🤔 Confusing UI changes - 🤯 Unintuitive navigation - 🤔 Lack of basic organization features - 🤦‍♂️ Forced iCloud integration **Commonly reported bugs** - Photos not syncing properly across devices - Editing tools and markup functionality unreliable - Frequent crashes and performance issues - Inconsistent behavior when managing albums - Shared library causing unexpected photo deletions **Most requested features** - Allow manual people tagging - Add option to hide/remove photos from 'All Photos' - Improve search and filtering capabilities - Provide more customization options for albums/folders - Implement password protection for sensitive photos ## Newest reviews (16 of 3,488) ### 4/5 — Pictures *2026-08-27, version 1.6* Delete ### 3/5 — What I like about photos… *2026-08-24, version 1.6* 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. ### 1/5 — ❌❌🤬 *2026-08-23, version 1.6* يعععع ما يخليني أصور كل ساعة مساحة😤 ### 4/5 — organization *2026-08-22, version 1.6* 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 ### 1/5 — Nearly unusable *2026-08-22, version 1.6* 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. ### 1/5 — Awful *2026-08-20, version 1.6* 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. ### 1/5 — Lock aspect ratio *2026-08-20, version 1.6* Whoever came up with the idea to lock the aspect ratio as a default should be fired. ### 2/5 — Google Photos is far better *2026-08-19, version 1.6* 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. ### 1/5 — Duplicates *2026-08-19, version 1.6* It needs some serious updates like say the duplicate detection thing it takes forever to identify duplicates ### 2/5 — Improvement needed *2026-08-18, version 1.6* Apple Photos — Missing / Better Features 1. Sort by File Size 2. Sort by Resolution 3. Advanced Storage Management 4. Find Largest Files 5. Find Similar Photos 6. Find Blurry Photos 7. Find Low-Quality Photos 8. Advanced Search Filters 9. Custom Smart Albums 10. Better Duplicate Detection 11. Photo Quality & Compression Options 12. Detailed Photo Storage Information 13. Bulk Photo Management 14. Better Photo Library Cleanup Suggestions 15. Advanced Video Storage Management ### 1/5 — I want to delete slideshows *2026-08-18, version 1.6* I don’t love to watch slideshows so much can you remove some slideshows? because I don’t know about those light shows from the videos collection. ### 1/5 — Bad export ability to Mac desktop *2026-08-15, version 1.6* Bad backup ability, bad for pros who photo a lot, iykyk. ### 3/5 — Laylah Hurst *2026-08-15, version 1.6* Photos is upright but I keep using all the space and I want it to have more space but I don’t want to spend a single penny but to the parents your kids won’t take all the space trust me I want to make more memories and videos I don’t know what I should do… ### 3/5 — Too hard *2026-08-15, version 1.6* At least it’s good but if you want it sent to a messaging app it’s gonna be hard that’s why I read this at three star ### 1/5 — Why!? *2026-08-15, version 1.6* So, i’ve been editing this one photo a lot, working hard on it, you know, and then it randomly just says smth like “can’t be saved” and resets it back to how it previously was EVERY time i try to edit it now. Fix it. NOW. ### 1/5 — удалиь приложение *2026-08-14, version 1.6* удалить приложение ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — How can something so simple be made so complicated, hard to use, AND devoid of features?! *2026-08-28, version 1.6* 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… ### 1/5 — Safety filter can’t be turned off *2026-08-28, version 1.6* 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…. ### 1/5 — Bring back old photos 😔✌️ *2026-08-27, version 1.6* Give me back old photos or Im using google photos ### 1/5 — Icloud sync is really bad *2026-08-27, version 1.6* 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. ### 1/5 — No security WHATSAPP AND OTHER APPS CAN DIRECTLY VIEW ALL OF YOUR PHOTOS DESPITE THE FAKE PRIVACY *2026-08-26, version 1.6* There are NO privacy controls to protect your personal photos from whatsapp AND APPLE U CLAIM TO BE PRIVACY FOCUSED 😒 ### 1/5 — Stuck syncing. No details. *2026-08-25, version 1.6* 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. ### 1/5 — Super bad at this complication stuff *2026-08-25, version 1.6* 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 😭😭😭 ### 1/5 — Takes a bit of storage away *2026-08-25, version 1.6* ? ### 1/5 — Can’t delete *2026-08-23, version 1.6* 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 ### 1/5 — ERROR: deleting my photos for GOOD!☹️ *2026-08-23, version 1.6* 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? ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Made by Apple *2026-08-26, version 1.6* 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! ### 5/5 — H *2026-08-17, version 1.6* H ### 5/5 — I need help *2026-08-16, version 1.6* I love a bum. I’m running on low storage so I need some tips to get more room thank you and it will really help me and if you see i’ll use the edit so the video will look more better even though I’m running on those storage thank you for the tips that would really help if you see this thank you I really appreciate it that really inspires me. Thank you very much and I’m just nine years old and that will really help. So thank you for giving me the tips that would really appreciate it and also I love to edit and I use CapCut and it’s actually really good. It’s like how you like it but CapCut uses the edits a little bit more. I love this but CapCut. ### 5/5 — Amazing *2026-08-16, version 1.6* Photos is an app that is on your phone for a reason. it keeps all your happy memories for you to look back on and remember all the fun times all the holidays all the birthdays (Keep this app) ### 5/5 — Great the new iOS 26 made it better *2026-08-08, version 1.6* Great I live This app because my parents take too many photos 🤩 ### 5/5 — Download this app people!👍 *2026-08-06, version 1.6* This is a good app to keep all your photos and videos trust me I have a lot of Photos on this app on my phone so Highly recommended for you to get this app now!!!👍👍👍😁😁😁😝😝😝 ### 5/5 — Amazing *2026-08-06, version 1.6* Just amazing ngl ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ### 5/5 — Good *2026-08-05, version 1.6* Good ### 5/5 — The best app *2026-08-03, version 1.6* Really cool it Save my tablet ### 5/5 — Easy photo management *2026-08-03, version 1.6* This app makes it easy to organize and view all my photos and videos. I like how quickly it loads images and automatically sorts them by date. Finding old memories is very convenient, and the editing features are useful for making quick adjustments without needing another app. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-02.*