Camera roll gone in Ios 18 on Iphone 16 ProMax

Perhaps it wasn't called Camera Roll anymore but up until IOS 18 came out, we can see a folder that was only loaded with photos taken on the phone (aka a camera roll) but now all photos I take are intermingled with tons of photos I have taken and loaded onto my phone from my computer.

The small thumbnail is just a link to the Photos app that opens with the image most recently taken, and that it is all it has ever been. Apple stopped calling it a “camera roll” several years ago.

I just tried what you described, and the result what it has always been; I can swipe through my recently taken photos IN THE PHOTOS APP after tapping that thumbnail.

But note that it is not now, and never has been, a “camera roll”, it has always been recent photos in the Photos app. The confusion may be that at one time Apple called the photo library the “camera roll”, but this is just a change in name, and not in the implementation.

glenn00000 wrote:

APPLE.... hear what people are saying... bring back CAMERA ROLL !

Where have you been? The Camera Roll went away 5 years ago. And it isn’t coming back. The current Photos app is much more advanced, useful, and customizable (if you take the 5 minutes to learn how to use it) than the stupid camera roll ever was.

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APPLE.... hear what people are saying... bring back CAMERA ROLL !

My Camera app has an image in it and my All Photos has 17,000+ photos. I don’t understand your comment that your thumbnail and All Photos are empty. Are you saying the thumbnail is black and never displays the most recent photo? Likewise, All Photos is empty and all your images are lost/missing?

In iOS there is no more Camera Roll in Photos.