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The iPhone Photos app has completely changed in iOS 18, with a significant change being one of the most used apps. Apple claims this is the biggest overhaul in the app’s historyand those are big words. The new Photos app has changed the way of organizing, but offering the user greater customization. A customization that seems to be the hallmark of iOS 18.

First of all The new Photos app in iOS 18 can be a little overwhelmingThe design has changed a lot compared to the app we knew and which had hardly changed in recent years. But by getting used to it, it is possible to get more performance out of it. Let’s analyze it in depth.

Key new features in the iOS 18 Photos app

THE iOS 18 Photos app arrives with great news with the aim of simplifying the experience and leaving what he wants to see in the hands of the user. There are many improvements introduced by Apple that, after a period of adaptation, end up convincing.

New design

This is the first thing that catches your attention in the new Photos app. Before, we had different “tabs” within the app that we moved between “horizontally”. Of the four “tabs” that the Photos app previously had, we now have a single window through which one scrolls verticallyby placing our photos in the upper area.

This change of concept is important, and our photos no longer seem “duplicate” as in the old sections. Even if it is true that This design can be overwhelming at first. By displaying a lot of information, the customization will allow us to leave it as we wish, even leaving only the photos.

The app leaves us with another series of smaller but important adjustments. When we open a photo, the buttons have changed position and design. The Edit Photo icon is now below and has three parallel lines. The video player has also been changed, as well as different views and sections.

Personalization

While we’ll dive deeper into the customization options later, this is one of the biggest changes in the new Photos app. iOS 18, You Can Build the Photos App You Really Wantshowing only what interests you. You can remove or move sections like Memories, People, Travel, or Featured Photos and organize the app to your liking.

There are even options for filter content and remove, for example, screenshots or shared content from view of all your photos. This content is still on the iPhone, even if it is not displayed.

Search Improvements

At the top of the iOS 18 Photos app, we have a magnifying glass in a blue circle that will help us find content. Apple has significantly improved the Photos app’s search feature, allowing you to use more natural language and be much more precise than before.

You can search for things like “Me eating pizza” or “A cat at the window”. Basically, you can describe any photo you remember and the Photos app will probably be able to find it. It’s even able to find specific parts of a video and jump to them directly.

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This is a new one interesting section of the Photos app in which photos are organized according to different types of content. We have access to the folder of hidden or deleted photos, but also to new sections that categorize our photos so that we can find them easily. This is in my opinion one of the best new features of the Photos application. Here are the sections:

• Hidden
• Eliminated
• Duplicates
• Recipes
• writing hand
• Illustrations
• QR Codes
• Recently recorded
• recently viewed
• Recently edited
• Recently shared
• Documents
• Imports

Apple Information

THE The iOS 18 Photos app also includes many Apple Intelligence featuresnew features that will arrive in more countries in the coming months:

• Memory Maker. This feature allows you to create a personalized souvenir movie from your photos and videos after describing what you want to appear. For example, “a video showing photos of different foods from around the world”. Photos and videos will appear in the video and different songs will be used to match what is displayed on the screen.
• To clean. This feature is designed to remove certain details from photos that we don’t like, such as a person in the background or an object on a table.
• Playground for images. An app that lets you generate images based on text prompts. It’s also part of the Photos app to create images that include your friends and family.

How to Organize Content in the iPhone Photos App in iOS 18

He The design of the iOS 18 Photos app has been unified in one placebut it’s a place we can customize to show what we want in the place we want. If we don’t like something, we can delete it, and if we half like it, we can move it to the bottom of the app. Here’s how to organize content in the Photos app:

Customize and rearrange the Photos app

If you swipe to the bottom area of ​​the Photos app, you will see a button to customize and reorganize content that appears in the app. It’s quite intuitive. By tapping on it, we can choose the categories we want to see, by tapping the blue icon, and reorganize them by sliding the three lines on the left. Here are all the categories available in the Photos app:

• Featured Photos. A rotating collection of your best photos.
• These last days. View your recent images by date. You can scroll or tap the collection name to see your entire photo library organized by day.
• People. Albums organized by person or pet. Apple uses machine learning to detect people in photos and videos.
• Pinned Collections. A section with collections and albums that we can customize.
• Memories. A musical presentation with memories of a specific day.
• Travels. Displays photos grouped in different locations.
• Content Types. An easy way to search for a specific type of content: Videos, Selfies, Live Photos, Portraits, Long Exposure, Panoramas, Time-lapse, Slow Motion, Cinema, Bursts, Captures, Screen Recordings, Space, Animated, RAW.
• More articles. Another type of content is grouped here as we saw previously.
• Albums. The albums we have created previously are displayed.
• Shared albums. All albums shared with other people via iCloud.
• Wallpaper Suggestions. A section in which it offers some photos as wallpapers. By pressing on them we can use them directly.

Filters and display options

This option allows us customize the content we see in the grid with our photos. By sliding towards it, we will see an icon with arrows in the lower left area from which we can sort the content, filter it and hide it. Here are the options:

• Sort by date added or sort by date captured.
• Filtered:
  • Favorites
  • Edited
  • Photos
  • Videos
  • Captures
• Display options:
  • Enlarge
  • Reduce
  • Proportion grid
  • Show: Screenshots and shared content

Pinned Collections

One of the new sections in the iOS 18 Photos app is called Fixed collectionsand it can display different types of content that we can change by pressing Edit in this section. This is a good section to add content that you like to access often, but don’t want to appear in a larger section. We have many options to display in these small boxes:

• Favorites
• Recently recorded
• Map
• Videos
• Captures
• People and Pets
• Albums
• Travels
• Memories
• Featured Photos
• Content Types
• More articles
• Selfies
• Eliminated
• Hidden
• Imports

Where is everything in the Photos app?

Since the Photos app has changed so much, Now, you probably don’t know where something is.. We will try to answer the most common questions that users may ask:

Where is the map with photos on the iPhone

If you like Locate your photos on a large map To see where you took them, you can do so from the Photos app on iPhone. The map is located in two main places in the Photos app:

• In Define Collections > Map.
• In More items > Map.

Where are deleted photos on iPhone

The deleted photos folder stores photos for

30 days to be able to retrieve them. This is protected by Face ID and It’s located in the Photos app under More Items > Deleted.. From there you can recover them or delete them permanently.

Where are the hidden photos on the iPhone

The folder containing the hidden iPhone photos is found in the Photos app under More Items > Hidden. You must identify yourself with Face ID to access this section.

Where are the panoramic photos taken with the iPhone?

If you’re looking for panoramic photos you’ve taken on your iPhone, there are two main ways to find them. Can Tap the magnifying glass to search for “panoramic photos” or go to Content Types > Panoramas.. The same thing happens with other types of content.

Where are the screenshots on iPhone

If you’ve filtered the Photos app so that screenshots aren’t displayed, but you want to locate them, simply enter the section Content Types > Captures from the Photos app. All screenshots will appear there. Video captures will appear in Screen Recordings.

In iOS 18, we have a lot of cool tricks for the iPhone and the Photos app is one of them. It is one of the apps that has improved the most along with others like Messages in iOS 18.

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