The new Photos app in iOS 18 just doesn't do it for me; in fact, I can't stand the changes they've made to the UI and navigation. I am firmly in the camp that feels the photo library is a feature, a utility to be used by other apps. Apple, however, wants Photos to be a destination, a product with a unique UI, flashy features and user retention gimmicks. Whether these two things should be two different apps, I don't know, but what we've got here isn't an app I want to have my photos in anymore
It's worth saying: none of this would be a problem if the Photos app were a user-replaceable component like antitrust regulators in the EU desire. I could just replace the Photos app, which is clearly going off in a direction I want nothing to do with, with an alternative that looks and functions like the old one
@stroughtonsmith I’ve been wishing for so long that they brought back the camera roll and made it separate from the photos library. I like Photos, but I’d rather pick what photos go in there instead of constantly having it be littered with every single photo and screenshot ever taken with any of my devices