Can’t search photo albums in iOS 18

I have stored data and named substansive volume s of albums by name with tag numbers.

Before search by an album name was possible such as album xxx NO.1, album xxx NO.2,album xxx NO.3 etc...

I dont understand why album indexing, has been remove from IOS 17.7.

This lack of functionality makes me consider return the smartphone, it make the photo album application useless.

I dont need AI or fancy function to search albums, or limit the search to individual picture, the concept of album naming is to find them all by keyword, make it simple and efficient.

Yes. It’s bloody horrible. I’m looking for a third party App for my photos. They can’t be any worse. Why does Apple always have to stuff thing up when they are working well. If it ain’t broke leave it alone.

I have hundreds of albums organized for my work with their respective titles. I would use search to locate the album I needed. I just upgraded to the iPhone 16 max with iOS 18 and the search function will NOT include albums. I have to literally scroll through hundreds of albums to find the one I’m looking for. This is so inefficient for my work 😭. Has anyone found a solution? TY!

I have about three thousand albums, many left over from iPhoto-created Events that I later gave meaningful names. Counting private and shared libraries, I have over a hundred thousand photos and a few videos.

Three weeks after moving the library onto my iPhone 16 with iOS 18, many (but not all) of my albums can be located by name with the search function. My MacBook Pro running Sequoia finds approximately the same number of folders per search, but not necessarily the same ones.

Seems the newest Photos library search engine can take an inordinate amount of time to build the tables necessary to locate things.

Ok I just found that I had the same problem but have found the answer now , open the photos app and scroll down to pinned collections , there is a modify button . Press it that will open a page where you can add albums and other catorgories back into the pinned collections enabling you to see your albums from there 👍🏻

I am an iPhone photographer and we are also influencers and I organized all my photos and videos in Albums. How insane is it that they took away the feature to search for an Album by name?

This is so unacceptable and disappointing that Apple would release an IOS that is a downgrade. Aren't they reviewing and testing their IOS before release?

What's going on? I just hung up with tech support who indicated that now with this IOS 18 the videos are looping.

SOS - Apple - I hope you are reading this fix these problems NOW!

Works for me

It seems I have found the solution on the Nexboy forum. There's a solution on how you can fix it, and I have followed their solution.

I used to be able to say “Hey siri show me photos of Bae” and it would pull up photos of my wife. Now it pulls randoms photos from the internet. It’s the beta so maybe it isn’t finished yet.

I had this issue as well and after searching a lot i finally found the solution, click on photos , pinned collections, modify and you select album and add it to your collection.

Open camera, press x at bottom of the page then albums will appear!