Apple is pumping the brakes on some of its updates to the Photos app in iOS 18<\/a>. The company made some changes \u2014 removing some features and tweaking others \u2014 on Monday to address user feedback. The pared-down version can be found in the software\u2019s fifth developer beta, which app makers can install today.<\/p>\n The biggest change is that Apple removed the Carousel from the Photos app altogether. The iOS 18<\/a> feature used \u201con-device intelligence\u201d (which, confusingly, isn\u2019t the same as Apple Intelligence) to aggregate what it thought was your best content, placing them in a swipeable row. Previously found to the right of the photo grid, it\u2019s now gone altogether, helping Apple clean up one of the features that earned a healthy dose of complaints from beta testers.<\/p>\n In addition, Apple tweaked the All Photos view in today\u2019s update to show more of the photos grid. The company also added Recently Saved content to the Recent Days collection. Finally, Apple made albums easier to find for users with more than one. (The difficulty of locating that section was a frequently echoed complaint among testers.)<\/p>\n Apple pitched the changes to the Photos app as one of the pillars of its 2024 software update. Although the app is streamlined into a single view and designed to be more customizable, it too often ends up as a mishmash of extra features most people won\u2019t need, sometimes getting in the way of finding what you\u2019re looking for.<\/p>\n A Reddit thread<\/a> from July with over 1,000 upvotes gave voice to some of the most frequent complaints. \u201cOnce again taking a rapid-use app and making it into an experience<\/em> for no reason,\u201d u\/thiskillstheredditor commented. \u201cI just want a camera roll and maybe the ability to sort photos by location. It was perfectly fine, if maybe a bit bloated, before. But this is an unmitigated mess.\u201d<\/p>\n Time will tell if today\u2019s updates are enough to clean up the app\u2019s user experience ahead of iOS 18\u2019s fall launch to the public. The changes aren\u2019t yet in the public beta<\/a> but will likely appear there in the next version or soon after.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n