Is your iPhone’s photo app hard to use? Two essential steps to customize the displayprinting

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2024.11.25

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The display of the “Photos” app has changed significantly in iOS 18. Perhaps with the intention of utilizing AI processing, the screen layout with its recommendations is noisy and complicated compared to the previous simple app operation.

The operation itself seems to be complicated in many ways. I’m sure there are quite a few people who feel that the OS is somehow difficult to use after updating it.

On the other hand, you can customize the display within the photo app to make it as simple to use as possible. In this article, we will explain how to do this.

(1) Remove unnecessary items from the collection screen

The iOS18 photo app has a screen layout where the top half is the “Library” and the bottom half is the “Collection”, and you can switch which one to use depending on the direction of your swipe.

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It may be easier to understand if you think of it roughly as a “library” that lists photos and videos, and a “collection” that contains content such as “memories.”

I think there are several reasons why people find this photo app difficult to use, but by customizing the display of the latter “Collection” section and making it clearer, it should become a little easier to use.

To do this, scroll down to the bottom of the app screen and tap “Customize and sort.” You can choose which items to display in your collection by unchecking the items that appear on the next screen. You can also change the display order by dragging the “three” icon on the right side of the item.

For example, if you turn off all the other elements except for “Media Type,” which allows you to select and display videos, selfies, etc., and “Memory,” which automatically compiles past photos into videos, the collection screen will be much cleaner.

Tap “Customize and Sort” at the bottom (image = left). Uncheck all items except those you want to display (image = right)

You can also drag the “three” icon to rearrange it (image on the left). By carefully selecting and streamlining the collection screen, the visibility of the app screen also seems to improve (image on the right).

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