After a few complaints about the Photos redesign in iOS 18, Apple sets the appearance of the app in its new OS release, Now marked as iOS 26.
The change was briefly mentioned Monday during the main note at the Global Conference of Apple developers (WWDC 25); Apple has noticed that it returns a board interface to photos, although it will not look the same as before.
“Many of you missed using tabs in the photo -app,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president on programming engineering – which is as close as Apple will ever acknowledge it, made a mistake about the review of the app last year. “Photos now present separate tabs for library and for collections,” he added, while demonstrating the update.
In collections, you will find your favorite, your albums and can search through your library.
Meanwhile, the Library Land makes it easy to roll through recent photos – a user interface that many people clearly prefer.
The Changes to photos in iOS 18 caused some reaction, How it centralized every way you could interact and organize your photos on one page. Some developers even capitalized the counter, offering third -party photo programs that promised Bring back the old user interface against a fee.
Also in the IOS 26 update, the Photo Program is capable of transforming your 2D photos into 3D space photos. This feature can be found on the updated lock screen of the iPhone and is inspired by Apple’s Spatial Computing Spatial Computing.
Related to photos, the camera app from iPhone and iPad has been updated to facilitate the finding its many features. The app now shows the two catch modes you use most on the main screen: photo and video. To reveal more modes, you can slide your finger to the left or to the right. Here, you can switch to things like portrait mode, cinema mode and others. To access other settings – such as the flash, timer, opening and more – you will now slide from the bottom of the screen.
You can also change formats by tap, which is helpful to switch between HD and 4K resolution or adjust the frame rate in video.
