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wyatt_wong Author

Level 1

58 points

Can’t search photo albums in iOS 18

After upgraded to iOS 18, I found that search function was missing for Photo Albums. And the search function in iOS 18 Photos wasn’t able to search for the Photo album name. How to resolve this ?

Posted on Sep 17, 2024 5:03 PM

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BSBTuba

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40 points

Posted on Sep 19, 2024 4:50 PM

It’s pretty clear that Apple hired 10-year-old to write iOS 18 and they didn’t test anything. as a longtime iPhone user, I will say without any hesitation whatsoever that this is the absolute worst version of iOS to have ever been released.

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Sep 20, 2024 10:01 PM in response to Richard.Taylor

It often happens that users with many albums may notice that some albums appear to be missing when searching by name. However, if you browse through the gallery manually, you’ll find the missing album. If you don’t have many albums, this issue is less likely to occur.

wyatt_wong Author

Level 1

58 points

Sep 22, 2024 10:04 PM in response to Richard.Taylor

It works only when you search for a keyword which match the photo album. But it also match anything in the photos app.

But in the Albums category the topmost search bar was removed as compared with IOS 17.

Furthermore it works doesn’t mean that it is user friendly to use.

Epanism

Level 1

32 points

Sep 22, 2024 4:47 PM in response to Richard.Taylor

How can? Do i have to wait for my photos to be fully optimized?

wyatt_wong Author

Level 1

58 points

Sep 22, 2024 9:59 PM in response to JayChuaCover

I have many photo albums too but I don’t think some of them are missing. But you cannot search photo album now

Oct 13, 2024 9:33 AM in response to wyatt_wong

Mine ended up taking 3 to 4 days to completely índex (?)

At first it would find only a few albums, the next day it would find more, but not in any order I could discern, though it did seem to index the albums with real word names before the ones named with my shorthand.

Since then it has worked fine and can find every album

if you have a massive amount of albums it may just take a while?

Sep 23, 2024 12:51 AM in response to Yeahboyee

they cant withdraw a such a major utilty without prior notice

Epanism

Level 1

32 points

Sep 25, 2024 4:56 PM in response to pkbrasil

You need to rename your album (just add . for the last word) it really takes time but it work for me, i have like 500 hundreds of Album

pkbrasil

Level 1

16 points

Sep 25, 2024 5:00 PM in response to Mile High Joe

Me too. Perfect your observation.

wyatt_wong Author

Level 1

58 points

Sep 27, 2024 7:30 PM in response to Fawgafboss

Fawgafboss

iOS 18 was already officially released and no longer in beta.

wyatt_wong Author

Level 1

58 points

Sep 27, 2024 7:31 PM in response to Applel001

Applel001

I checked the Nexboy forum link you provided and it simply asked people to wait for the next update. But there is no guarantee that the next update will fix the issues.

kZainun

Level 1

14 points

Oct 9, 2024 7:46 PM in response to wyatt_wong

This problems make me never upgrade iOs

Sep 22, 2024 6:49 AM in response to _merigan

_merigan wrote: … Things like “plants” “pizza” “guitars” and a persons name it shows me on average 0 or at most 28 when I have hundreds that use to come up on any prior OS.

Again, I don't think that it's the iOS. All those things work for me on iOS 18. It's not a bad idea to revert to an earlier OS and see if it makes a difference. Let us know…

Sep 25, 2024 3:49 PM in response to wyatt_wong

People please check again.

Mine started working after 3 days or so post iOS 18 install.

I have a lot of albums, as most people likely do, and it appears it must have been doing some kind of indexing/cataloguing (something like that? I’m not an IT guy)

Mine works now

Check again

wyatt_wong Author

Level 1

58 points

Sep 25, 2024 8:58 PM in response to Yeahboyee

@Yeahboyee

After iOS 18 Photos finished full indexing, the search works slightly better but still it is NOT the same experience as in iOS 17 Photos. There is still no Search Bar appeared when you click on the "Albums". And your search is only keyword search so while it can search the Photo Album (if your keyword match with the name of Photo Album) but it also search other photos not photo albums (sometimes you only wanted to restrict the search on photo albums)

Sep 25, 2024 9:58 PM in response to wyatt_wong

After a few days, I discovered that my iOS 18 gallery can search by album names, but it takes a few days for the albums to sync before they become searchable by name. Hopefully, Apple can fix this to make the syncing process faster.

Can’t search photo albums in iOS 18