Can’t search photo albums in iOS 18

It’s pretty clear that Apple hired 10-year-old to write iOS 18 and they didn’t test anything. as a longtime iPhone user, I will say without any hesitation whatsoever that this is the absolute worst version of iOS to have ever been released.

I use the photo apps in my esthetics business. Each client has their own album titled by their name. I have over 2000 clients and I’m unable to search their info which I’ve organized over the last 8 years. This has been detrimental to my business. Is there a solution to this HUGE oversight?

Same for me, in the gallery, iOS 18 can’t search by album, which means it’s not user-friendly. What’s the point if you can’t search by album and have to go through each one manually? It’s not user-friendly at all.

Exactly. Losing the ability to search by album name has rendered the photo app very useless.

Who would do that? Was there not a design review? A re-design review?

They took something really simple and made the layout noisy and the whole thing a complete mess.

It can find like 1% of my albums, but the rest it cannot.

Changing just for the sake of changing is nonsense.

The same for me. And Captions. I can’t search by any caption that I’ve added to a photo. I use mainly keywords as captions so I can easily find a category of photos and now I can’t. Very frustrating

ios18 photo app search mode is a serious downgrade. As someone who heavily uses photos app as well as the iPhone camera my album traces back to 2014 via iCloud and has over 50,000+ photos and videos. The fact that when I search people now or essential things in our outside my home I get on average no results. Things like “plants” “pizza” “guitars” and a persons name it shows me on average 0 or at most 28 when I have hundreds that use to come up on any prior OS.

about to revert back to 17.7

Im having exactly the see issue. It’s frustrating

C-A-P-T-I-O-N-S no longer appear in Search results on iOS 18. This is a disaster for me because I use captions like tags and search for them all day long

I have exactly the same issue after ios 18 update in my iPad . I cannot find the album by name .i have hundreds of albums.I am a doctor and I have stored patient reports and photos in an album by their names .i cannot search their records on follow up visit . Who should I approach to solve this problem . I have contacted apple support but they do not seem to have a solution. I bought the iPad to just store photos and now this update renders this product useless . I hope apple fixes this issue as soon as possible.

Same to me. I am a doctor and I can no longer find a photo by a specific date or by the name of the disease that I registered before. This is terrible and has messed up my life and I hope it is a temporary error in the application. I hope they fix this problem soon.

I have hundreds of albums organized for my work with their respective titles. I would use search to locate the album I needed. I just upgraded to the iPhone 16 max with iOS 18 and the search function will NOT include albums. I have to literally scroll through hundreds of albums to find the one I’m looking for. This is so inefficient for my work 😭. Has anyone found a solution? TY!

I have the exact same problem. Searching my captions is useless now. Any search also shows very small thumbnails that I can barely see the content. My photos app is now very useless to me

This is totally pathetic, i am not able to search my photos which are in albums. Please revert this, this change makes photos a mess