So, I've been using an iPhone 14 for a while and had made some photo albums using some of the few thousand I have stored on it. They're also on the cloud. But suddenly it looked like they were all gone.
Opening "albums" showed a bunch of empty folders. I've been using an early version of ios 18 and until today all was normal. Suddenly, that changed. But what happend? Having had numerous iPhones over the years I had stored 10's of thousands of photos on the cloud. Numerous old folders that were not synced to the 14 suddenly appeared, yet it was only the folder name and no content.
That's all well and good if I wanted to sync every photo ever onto this device. But do I want to sync nearly 100,000 photos onto the current iPhone? Well, not really. The change had put all of those empty folders in front of the ones currently on the device. So when I opened my photos and scrolled down to albums all I saw on the screen was 0 contents. I opened the albums section by touching the > symbol and saw a list of all available.
You can move them around but I didn't want to have to move my 10 or so current albums up the screen one at a time past about 100 empty folders so I deleted the empty folders from my phone.
Bottom line, if you suddenly see what looks like your albums have disappeared that's what happened. Very annoying Apple.
Opening "albums" showed a bunch of empty folders. I've been using an early version of ios 18 and until today all was normal. Suddenly, that changed. But what happend? Having had numerous iPhones over the years I had stored 10's of thousands of photos on the cloud. Numerous old folders that were not synced to the 14 suddenly appeared, yet it was only the folder name and no content.
That's all well and good if I wanted to sync every photo ever onto this device. But do I want to sync nearly 100,000 photos onto the current iPhone? Well, not really. The change had put all of those empty folders in front of the ones currently on the device. So when I opened my photos and scrolled down to albums all I saw on the screen was 0 contents. I opened the albums section by touching the > symbol and saw a list of all available.
You can move them around but I didn't want to have to move my 10 or so current albums up the screen one at a time past about 100 empty folders so I deleted the empty folders from my phone.
Bottom line, if you suddenly see what looks like your albums have disappeared that's what happened. Very annoying Apple.