Apple has made many changes to the Photos Application in iOS 18. Fortunately, there are many ways that users can also personalize the application to their liking. For example, there is a change that I immediately made which resolved my biggest problem with the big photos of iOS 18.
Missing photos resolved by modifying the default sorting method
The overhaul of the Apple photos application has brought a variety of changes that could be considered controversial.
One in particular was a non-employment for me from the start.
iOS 18 sort your photo library by “captured date” by default.
This means that each photo and video, it doesn’t matter when you really added it to your library, is chronologically sorted.
Maybe if your library has only items that you got out of this device, this is not a problem.
But I regularly record images of friends, web and other sources I want to find. And when I installed iOS 18 for the first time, the photo application drove me a little crazy.
For what? Because I couldn’t find photos that were there before.
This is because they had suddenly been sorted by “Date captured”, which means that iOS 18 dispersed them in the wide range of my other thousands of photos rather than keeping them where they were before.
Fortunately, there is an easy solution: sorting by “recently added”.
How to repair photos of the sorting of photos in iOS 18
Here’s how you can implement the corrective:
- Open the photos application and sweep on the photo grid to enlarge your library
- Press the icon in the lower left corner with arrows from top to bottom
- Finally, press ‘sort by recently added’
Once you have brought this change, it will remain for good. All your photos and videos will be forever sorted on the date on which they joined your library.
I also made several other customizations on my application of photos in iOS 18, but changing the sorting method was the simplest and most important solution for me.
Do you proper your photos by date captured or recently added? Let us know in the comments.
