Photos 4+

Let me start of by saying that the Apple photos app is not bad from the limited amount of time I’ve used it and integrates well into the phone. However as a long time Google photos user, Apples support of the app is horrible. You should be allowed in settings to switch between or prioritize/make default the photo app of your choice. Not only is Google photos hard to use on IPhone with its limited integration, I still to this day have not found an easy way to switch all my photos over from Google to Apple Photos; so even if I wanted to switch over I literally cannot find a way to get my photos over or sync them between services. I switched from Pixel to IPhone and have been loving the phone so far, but Apple’s inexplainable desire to keep everything in their “walled garden” is ruining the experience for me and people who want to/are accustomed to using a non-Apple service and how horribly they integrate into messages, apps, and the system as a whole. Please fix Apple or at least work with Google a little so we can use the services of choice on our platform of choice.

I’ve been using the photos app as long as I can remember, and I’ve loved it so much. The tabs made navigation so great, where you switch switch from your main photos library quickly to searching something up that you remembered, than going back exactly where you were in your photos library. I just loved how there were multiple pages too- everything was so organized and perfect. You could also see the most recent photo in your albums nice and big like always. But now, I can’t stand this everything in one page design. Multitasking within the photos app is ruined, making it so hard to go from viewing photos in your main library to searching something up and then looking at photos in your albums all at the same time by the click of a tab change. So so upset about this. The old app had nostalgia to it too as I’ve literally been using it since i was a kid - i’m 17 now and got my first iphone when I was 10. There’s nothing about this redesign of the photos app that I like. Its downgraded so much, becoming more complex by attempting to simplify it. It’s also worth noting how glitchy it is, as it keeps freezing while I’m searching and opening photo albums. Please please PLEASE bring back the old app, or at least an option in settings where you can bring the old app design back, similar to how you can switch your safari tab view in settings. Please. 🙏

As an Apple fan, it is frustrating to have to write this. The Photos widget only ever finds 1-3 (and always the same) out of 3000+ photos or 200 “recents” photos to “feature”. Also, the widget never shows memories that are curated by the “create photos memory” option. Memories can’t be made “less” except by person or date - and yet it keeps coming up with memories that I don’t want at all and have to keep deleting (the algorithm is severely limited!). And no matter how many memories are generated, the widget never shows more than a recent few - so much for being shown things from my beautiful intensely curated library. And once there is a featured photo to show, the widget will won’t show any Memories. The widget also has long ago been switched to giant text captions which can’t be deleted (and I’m tired of having to edit everything all the time) and absolutely ruins the “beauty” Apple keeps selling in their “wow-look what we did” product announcements. And the people curation on iOS hasn’t found anyone in over a year (empty) and then suddenly last week found (only) two people (out of 3000+ photos) - and then it stopped. Useless. And this is a problem reported by many people as evidenced in many online discussions and yet never solved by Apple support personnel involved in those discussions and never in the bug fix releases either. Very disappointing Apple!