widget2k4 wrote: for over a year now i have not been able to select an album when browsing for a photo to upload to a website etc …
I'm guessing that you are referring to using Safari and trying to use the "Media" picker to load a picture from your Photos Library to a web site-- is that correct? I'm familiar with this on the Mac, but I don't ever upload pictures from my phone, so I'm not sure if that's what you mean.
For a Mac, at least, what you are describing is a crazy behavior of the media picker that's been going on for two years, and no one knows why. The Media Picker's search field works well so, rather than scroll through the whole Library, I sometimes just enter relevant stuff into the search field. On my Mac, if I need to upload a picture to a website, I often first save the picture from Photos to my files, and then I load from there. This would be more awkward, I think, on a phone.
If this is the problem, then your best bet is to let Apple know what you think (in a friendly way, of course) here:
Feedback - Photos - Apple
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