Get past those pretty Apple photo albums to see my ordinary run-of-the-mill photos!

Apple has been creating albums of my pics with my app, that are displayed top right on my iPhone SE. Problem his when I click below on the Photos app I just get the same albums - created by Apple with my prettier touristy pictures without seeking my approval. A couple of days ago I found there was/is no way to escape those albums and find my more ordinary photos. Even photos that have been taken half Ann hour before cannot be found.


Yet they seem to exist somewhere hidden on the iPhone. If I use an app very recently downloaded called FloraIncognita: when using its plant identification camera, it will allow me to select photos from the Apple Photos app. it shows me miniatures of the photos just taken, and I can select them. (Does no good as the FIora app tells me "that seems to be textile, not a flower' or some similar puzzled comment.) But it's impossible to find those pics shown where they should be on the Apple photo app!


Is there some technique to escape those Albums and go to the other pics?

iPhone SE, iOS 16

Posted on May 20, 2023 11:34 AM

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Posted on Sep 6, 2023 09:14 AM

Not sure why the post I just wrote, logged in as OakBeechWillow, was ascribed to biancogatto, but that was me, no one but me. Quite likely it's an old pseudo of my wife's, as we had a much loved white cat (bianco gatto) in Italian and I was using her laptop to reply on, so most likely. I just used touch identity to identify myself, but both she and I can use this partition by touch identity.

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Sep 6, 2023 09:14 AM in response to biancogatto

Not sure why the post I just wrote, logged in as OakBeechWillow, was ascribed to biancogatto, but that was me, no one but me. Quite likely it's an old pseudo of my wife's, as we had a much loved white cat (bianco gatto) in Italian and I was using her laptop to reply on, so most likely. I just used touch identity to identify myself, but both she and I can use this partition by touch identity.

Sep 6, 2023 08:58 AM in response to OakBeechWillow

I finally after a month or two discovered the technique of how to escape those Albums Apple tries to create for you and will play back to you to music. Just go, not to Photos, but Camera. If necessary take a new photo of something. You see in the bottom left hand corner of the photo screen the last photo taken, in the form of a tiny miniature. If you click on it it will take you to where your normal, ordinary library of photos is and you can look through them. It had taken me some time to realise the tiny miniature was indeed the last photo taken or recognise it as one of mine or even what it really was. It was too small.

I'm surprised nobody here thought of suggesting that solution. I hope some day my solution may help someone with the same problem as mine.

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