iOS 18 Photo App Adjustment Guide: Restore the Old Version Experience

The iOS 18 system update brings many exciting new features to iPhone users, such as more powerful home screen customization, dark mode icons, icon shading and control center customization. However, the revision of the iOS 18 photo app has caused many complaints from users.

iOS 18 has made a significant redesign of the photo app, and many users want to be able to undo these changes and restore to previous photo app designs. While you can't do this completely, you can make some tweaks to the Photos app to make it behave closer to the ones before the iOS 18 revamp. One of the best ways to improve is to change the sorting of photos to "Recently Added" instead of sorting by shooting/creation time, but this is just one of many customization options, and you can improve the photo app experience with more customization and make it more in line with your usage habits.

These tips apply to the iOS 18 Photos app on iPhone, and also to the iPadOS 18 Photos app on iPad. However, iPad users seem to have less complaints about photo apps, which may be because the larger screen makes the redesign look less clumsy or confusing, or simply because the number of iPad users is much smaller than that of iPhone users.

How to rearrange the photo app in iOS 18 to fix the redesign

Apple seems to expect some users to be bothered by the redesign of the iOS 18 Photos app, as they add a hidden setting where you can customize and rearrange the photo apps to better suit your personal preferences. Here is how to access this setting and make your photo redesign more suitable for you:

1. Open the Photos app on your iPhone.

2. Scroll to the bottom of the Photos app and click the Customize and Reorder button at the bottom.

3. On the Customize and Reorder screen, tap the blue check mark to deselect the albums you want to hide from the Photos app, and you can also tap and drag the albums to change the order in which they appear in the Photos app. For many iPhone users, moving the Album view to the top is very useful, as well as other albums they visited frequently before.

4. When finished, click the (X) button to close and return to the Photos app to view your newly compiled photo app.

Restore iOS 18 Photo Redesign to a closer state to the iOS 17 Photos app

Using the same tricks as above, you can simulate iOS 17's photo app by hiding all other albums:

1. From the Photos app, scroll down to access Customize and Reorder, as mentioned earlier.
2. Deselect all albums, keep only Utilities, Media Types, and Albums, and drag and reorder these three albums according to your preferences.
3. Click (X) when finished.

With this change, making Utility and Media Type stand out while hiding all other unwanted Albums can be closer to simulating previous photo app design experiences.

Remember to use Sort by Recently Added to restore old photo camera roll style sort

Another very useful trick is to use the "Sort by Recently Added" option in iOS 18's photos so that any new photos or videos added to the device - whether transmitted from others via AirDrop, saved from information, or saved from the web - will appear at the bottom of the Photos app library, similar to the default camera roll settings that have been around since the birth of the Photos app.

You can do this easily; scroll up a little in the Photos app and you will see the reverse arrow icon in the lower left corner, click on the icon to change the sorting.

Do you have any other suggestions or tips to customize the Photos app in iOS 18 to make it feel more like the Photos app in iOS 17? Do you like or dislike the iPhone's redesigned photo app in iOS 18? Please share your experiences, thoughts and comments below!

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