Unable to search in my 'Photos App' after new update

But it actually doesn’t. Mine doesn’t pull up all the photos related to that category, frequently less than 50% of the photos that would come up previously for the same search, and you can’t just look through them in the same way. It’s not as user-friendly or as easy to find a photo as it previously was, nor is comprehensive.

I don’t know why Apple feels it always needs to update things that are really successful into something that isn’t as effective.

im upset about this also, i can no longer search for pictures in my phone like i used to. before if i typed a city name in everysingle picture ive ever taken in that town or city would show up now it only gives me like 25% of the pictures ever taken there. and if i want to find the group of photos i took i now have to find the date and scroll to the date because now the date search doesnt work anymore. why did apple do this? is it becuase they want us to upgrade the phones faster? this ones only less than 2 years old.

I have a brand new 16 pro and lots of photos labeled “Alan’s house “

before on older 11pro max I searched Alan’s house and all showed up 😊NOW I search and literally 3 !!! What the heck ?? I’m charging the phone on usb / this is horrible !!

Apple updated my Photos app on my iPhone 15 pro max without even asking permission.

And now, my favorite feature — the ability to quickly finf (among thousands of photos) specific photo memes by searching for embedded text in the photo — no longer works. It is INFURIATING.

Why did Apple kill this feature?

And why did it completely change the interface to a more cumbersome, user/unfriendly design?

is it possible to delete the app and reinstall the prior version, which had an excellent text-search capability???

This will be my last iPhone if they don’t fix this.

Absolute disaster - I can no longer share my photos with anyone.

so simple and easy before the update - I now have no trust whatsoever in apple.

thanks Apple for my subscription and inability to share or find all my photos

EVERY TIME Apple, or almost ANY App designer does an update, they royally muck things up for the worse. They take the useful things and either eliminate them or make them so obscure, no one can use them anymore. One reason is to make the particular action so it isn't something they can't make money off of. That's where Apple Music, Amazon's many specific fees all arose from. Anything to make, literally, another billion. Another reason is that the coders are out of touch with the end users of their products. In the process of making their OS more User Friendly (Idiot Proof) and right-brained, they take all the logic out of it. Try to store, then find docs or files on an iPad after saving it using the written title app names on the pull down menus, then to retrieve them, find those apps that are not named the same, and could be anywhere, with renamed files for what you saved.

As for the photos, every time I update IOS or sync w/my PC, photos,meven the entire contents of folders disappear on my iPad. Gone for good. The cloud is no better. And with the interface connection changing USB types every other year, thumb drives can't be effectively used on a next gen device...if it worked at all on the first device. It's getting really sloppy and deregulated and we're losing control of it all, with the rich guys at the top making $$$ off of it.

AND...where are the Apple, etc. company's HELP LINES??!! Why do we have to rely on each other for solutions?

It’s amazing how they could mess this up with NEW technology. I love it when Apple decides to create a slide show for me with pictures they pick! I have a whole show with my friend’s husband! Not mine, my friend’s! I’ll type in Palm Desert and get pics from Palm Beach! So annoying

I want my pictures back. I don’t know how much painter to put it. I don’t know what you did with them. I don’t know where they went. I did smoke this app on my phone to begin with. Please get my pictures back. All I have with my grandkids.

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Me too. And before I was able to send a text message and then attach a photo and there would be a search bar and I could search for the photo I wanted that I had actually named and it's not allowing me to do that so I have to send a text message and then go into the photos and search for the photo For the title of the photo that I named it in order to be able to select it and attach it as a text message. Every time they do an update it just sucks even more. And everybody out there is complained forever about the keyboard and they never do anything about the keyboard. I'm over iPhones completely.

Me too - why isn’t apple listening !! We get sucked into a new upgraded phone because “your storage is full” and then we can’t even find what those photos are anymore and it cost us $1,000 to get screwed

Thought it was just me ~ I've got over 40,000 images that I've shot since 2010, and trusted iphoto to keep cataloged for me for almost 15 years. I was always amazed at how intuitive this software was, bringing up images that I'd often forgotten, and always reliable when it came to showing PLACES, which as a professional photographer was a key for me to organizing my images shot with my camera. As others have mentioned, of all the things to mess around with, why iPhoto?!?

Exactly this whole thing is a disaster. I can search for photos from Halloween and I will get 300 photos that have absolutely nothing to do with Halloween. Or then I’ll say hey let’s look up videos taken in Florida. And then it will yield no results OK so then I freak out I’m like did my update delete all 20,000 of my videos. I don’t even know where to find them anymore. It’s insane. This is ridiculous. This is only the photos let’s talk about text messaging. I can legit type out an entire text message And it will no longer yield any results whereas before I could have typed in the first three letters and it would’ve popped up or contacts say my name is Bob. I’m searching contacts for BOB. I have to scroll down for about 10 seconds past everything that has anything not to do with BOB to find the actual BOB I’m wondering if this is maybe just a glitch on my iPhone is this somebody playing a joke on me because I can search my iPhone for contact and it doesn’t even have it in there but when I click contacts and then scroll through manually, I find the same contact that I just searched for that yielded no results This is all Siri talk to text greater example added to this platform here but I’m saying all these updates are doing damage they are destroying the already good things that were. I am about to go back to my Nokia flip phone or something or whatever because I feel like I am on acid every single time I open my photo app.

I’m here for the same reason as everyone else. After an update, search photos is hit-and-miss. I rely on this function and am devastated to lose it. I’m hoping it re-indexes over time but it’s been a couple of days. Why break this function, Apple?

This is my first iPhone and I think I’m going to go back to Android next time I upgrade. iPhone has less functionality in general (for instance, you can’t do split screen to outsmart YouTube’s limitation on multitasking while playing music) but every time I find a gem like this search photos feature, which allowed me to search which meme I wanted to attach/post, it ends up getting ripped away.

It did not help at all! I’ve been a die hired Apple product user all my life but after this last update and ruining everything about photo search/ layout- I think I am finally ready to go to an android! I pay thousands of dollars each year to go backwards with every update!