After updating to iOS 18, Photo App is not working on my iPhone 14 Pro

Honeypots wrote: "...before my icons in photos was albums etc now I can’t find anything..."

Honeypots ~ These may help:

Get started with Photos on iPhone - Apple Support

Feedback - Photos - Apple

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Same problem here! Apple fix this asap. I can’t even text a photo. This is terrible.

Another issue, in addition to all those I listed in earlier posts; I can not open folders in albums. When I try the app freezes.

same i can’t search for people on my photos so i would have to scroll for hours trying to find the photos with specific people in them

rtvman wrote:… wondering if it's a bug.

If it were a bug, then we'd all be seeing this and, as you say, you've "not seen this issue yet addressed."

Have you tried a forced restart?

Force restart iPhone - Apple Support

System crashes are often caused by memory issues. How much memory do you have, and how much of your storage is being used and how much remains free?

the photos app on my iPad Air (latest gen) doesńt work properly, it takes a while to load videos, whatever the resolution. I try to watch a memory or click on a trip video (the ones automatically made by apple) and none of the work properly, they get stuck when coming to an video. This is very frustrating. Anyone else have the same issue? Seems to be working fine on my iPhone 13 Pro Max.

Same problem for me with iPhone 15 Pro. Only the first six folders (containing albums) can be opened. The folders after that cause the app to hang. Forced restart does not resolve the issue. Please fix this ASAP.

A workaround that occasionally works is to long press on a folder then click back and now tap that folder and it opens.

I have a 14 Plus, 100/128 gb used, on iOS 18.0.1. Pressing the App icon launches and immediately crashes the app. I can't even force close it it's just not running. Force restarting my phone didn't help. Can long press on the app to access certain folders like "Recent" but the moment I try to view the main app page it crashes. Had zero issues before updating to iOS18.

I'm not in a good location to perform a total phone reset but guess I'll try when I am if the problem still persists.

Absolutely annoyed!! After that dumb update, the photos app totally crashed. It won’t open at all. Can’t access it, and I have tons of pics to use for work. When contacting support, they said to wait ten days for the next update, which should aupposedly fix the problem. Great apple, well done.

Based on the posts, it looks like there are assorted problems with Photos, but specifically for the "Albums" issue, I think the above update is correct. In Photos, if you've set up Albums, you see them below "Recent Days." Within the Albums section appears to be a set of thumbnails for each album. Clicking on the thumbnail to see the photos in the album may or may not work. But if you click on the word "Albums" (it has an arrow next to it), it should bring up each Album in a list format. Then you can click within each album and see its photos.

Same with my iPhone 14 Pro IOS 18. Photo app keep crashing when I do search with more than 1 criteria

I have same issue on iPhone 15 iOS 18 when search the word “met”.. it crashes.

Similarly, on my iPhone 13 mini, 256GB (191GB free), on iOS 18 the Photos app crashes when using the search function.

Same issue here. Iphone 16 pro max 512GB, photos app crashes upon opening. After restart, works a few times the it crashes again. Also, battery life is very poor!!

Try Force Restart, it will fix software glitches