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 ?
Below procedure worked for me so try this:
“The detection process requires iPhone to be locked and connected to power. Depending on what tasks are running in the background and the size of your photo library, the process could happen quickly or take up to a few days to complete”
I was wirelessly charging my iPhone 16 Pro for over 2 weeks and the photo search function still wasn’t working. After coming accross the above information, I used my usbc charging cable and physically charged the phone overnight twice in a row, the search function started working the next morning. So I guess the phone does require to be physically connected to power in order for the phone to learn your large photo library. Hope this helps.
Gary,
I went to collections and hit modified which gives you general categories not the albums. So I am lost as to what to do next to find with ease my albums based on their name I gave them.
What shall we just add to the title so it shows up?
Nextboy??
They need to fix this. It’s terrible now. I need to be able to search.
Apple, do something please!
I agree, its made the use of photo albums very hard work. i hope apple releases a fix very soon !!
Same here! I’m a home stranger and have 175,000 photos organized into albums which I now can’t find by searching by album name. How am I going to do my job, Apple???
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How does the loss of photos app search capabilities get resolved by Apple? It’s a disaster. How do we protest/complain? Enough for me to want to move to a Samsung.
Unfortunately doesn’t let me enroll to complain.
@garyfrombury I have hundreds of albums and thousands of captions/keywords, I have to pin all my albums to make them searchable?
To be honest I do not know I am just a user like yourself .
Same here- I could not work today- destroying my business
How to search for albums in Photos?
Can’t search photo albums in iOS 18
