Most of the talks about the iPhone photo app in iOS 26 are focused around your photo library design opportunities that Apple is offering in its latest software. And when this is understandable, there are some other photo changes to iOS 26 – and I think they really add a lot to the app.
But first, about the update of this design. As you remember, iOS 18 introduced a clean new look in the app that essentially decorated your library in photos, albums and other tools of the organization. While I became a habit of seeing over time, it was clearly not a global change, as Apple returned to it with a photo design update for iOS 26.
Now, the iOS 26 photos contains library and collection tabs, and you tap them to togel between two parts of the app. This definitely protects you from the seemingly uncomfortable scroll that you have to do to visit iOS 18 photos, and I admire how those tabs go out with a book below.
Don’t give them
But this new design is just one part of the story with iOS 26 photos. Other major changes include new features and functionality to the app, and as a result, I think they will be very discriminatory.
The collection view now extends customized tools that allow you to change the size of the display. And Enough is getting smart enough to identify events like photo app concerts and sports, information about this program is drastically draws into the app.
Let’s talk about iOS 26 photo changes and where you can find them in the app.
Customize Collection Layout in Photo
(Image Credit: Future)
If you remember iOS 18, you can already customize the photo app sequence, and reset orders such as memories, tours, recent days and various other collections. You had to scroll down the photo app on your iPhone and then tap custom and reset to reset things on the screen.
(Image Credit: Future)
This is still possible in iOS 26 photos, though the button below the collection tab is now reset. But you gain organizational skills in the new iPhone software, and you access the more menu on the upper part of the screen – they tap them by tapping the three dots.
(Image Credit: Future)
When you do, a popup menu will appear with different options such as customizes, which will take you like a re -order option at the bottom of the screen. You also have control to switch between personal and shared photo libraries and fall into the same list all your collections.
But these are three icons in the upper part of the popup menu that have attracted my attention. Because they are the ones that allow you to change the order of your different collections.
Combination Layout Options with Large icons for a large top image (left), uniform -shaped strips (middle) and such shaped strips (right) (Image Credit: Future)
The first option – which is represented by the icon with a block above three dots – is a default look for collections. It prefers to submit to the upper part of the screen – memories in my case – while shrinking the size of the aftermath of the afternoon. This is a good look if you have a special collection you want to highlight the other.
The middle option includes a icon with 3×3 grid dots. Tap it and all your combinations will appear in the same size.
The final option, the 2×2 grid icon, looks like the middle option, just with the combinations displayed with large thumbnases.
In fact, this is not a wide list of sequence options. I want to see someone where you may be alternatives between a prominent box and a small line – or even better, squeezing multiple reservoirs on the same line so that there is no such vertical scroll. But as proof of the concept of changing the form of photos in iOS 26, this is a good start.
View the details of the event in the photo
(Image Credit: Future)
If you take photos in a concert or sporting event, the photo app will now contain additional information you can get from your photo library. For example, last September, I shaped my daughter when she and a friend went to the Grassi Abrams concert. When I swipe the image from a photo of this program to see the image information – location, date and other metadata information – now a link to the event itself.
In the example of this Grassi Abramis concert, the link takes me to an information page with the concert date and location. But there are also Grassi Abram’s music links, as well as a direct link to the Apple Music app on my phone if I want to play or buy some songs. The screen is further down, a list of the events that come – in this case additional Gracie Abrams Performance.
(Image Credit: Future)
This feature also works for sports events, though less to see this location. I can also jump on the pages of information about college football sports and baseball sports, but it has no score data, and incoming games are either not there or especially related. (Information about Cal-Unlv Football Games on the screen in which I participated in December, every college football game is played in the end of the upcoming events, not only the features of the two teams I saw.)
It seems that event information is limited to major sports leagues. I have participated in the second division football team near me, Auckland Routes, and there is no information about these outside photos.
I don’t want I’m complaining – just a confession that this is still a feature in the son, like the rest of iOS 26. I think the fact that Apple is building this feature in photos increases the value – especially since it has no attempt by me.
Photo outlook
Whether you are a photo -ready -made fan or not, you have to appreciate Apple’s efforts to fix the app and have more control in the hands of users. Once you install iOS 26 on your iPhone, it is certainly worth checking, whether it is by a public son later this month or a complete release later this year.
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