"Shared with You" photos not showing up

squishyface wrote: "Shared with You" photos are not showing up in Photos.

I don't really ever look there, but I see "Shared with You" in Photos on my Mac-- it's down under "Shared Albums." But it's not there, that I can see, on either my iPhone or on my iPad. I looked at Apple's sheet on "Shared with You,"

Use Shared with You on your iPhone and iPad - Apple Support

and it has this:

But I also can't find the "For You" tab! There are lots of places to hide things and to rearrange menus in iOS18, but I swear I've looked everywhere, and I can't find either of those things! It seems like I've seen that before, but I can't remember if it was in iOS18.

When I open Shared Albums, for instance, there are menus, but none of them are appropriate.

Pinned Collections, Utilities, Media Types, and others have menus that can be sorted, and choices can be hidden, but I think I searched them all, and I can't find "For You" or "Shared with You" anywhere!

I'm flummoxed! Let me know if you find it!!

That's the kind of stuff I usually say-- While I use Filter all the time, I pretty much never use "shared," so I forgot. Embarrassed…

Mine, by the way, is full of pictures, but none of them are recent-- the last is from Christmas. On my Mac, there are only 7 since then. There are a lot in Messages. I clicked on a couple in Messages (on my Mac) to add them to Photos, and they haven't shown up in "Shared with You" on Mac or phone, though they are in the Library. Hmm.

Clearly, I have no idea how this works! (And there's still no "For You" tab!)

I am having the same problem on my iPhone 16 Pro Max with iOS 18.6.2.

The last photo in "Shared with you" is from 2023, none of the more recently shared photos from my messages are showing. And it took me a long time to rediscover "Shared with you", hidden away in the menu behind my avatar in the upper right corner of the display.

I used the feedback link at the bottom of the KB article Use Shared with You on your iPhone and iPad - Apple Support to report a problem with the article. It clearly needs updating and should be more specific , which photos are supposed to show in Shared with You.

Perhaps only the shared photos we have saved to photos or are from known Contacts are supposed to show. At least, I am seeing only shared photos from people in my Contacts with iCloud mail addresses there.

léonie wrote: …"Shared with you", hidden away in the menu behind my avatar in the upper right corner of the display.

Oh wow!-- that's awkward! Most people seem not to even know that's a button! I have a few newer ones there, but only a few…