I’ve been an iPhone owner since Apple released the very first model back in 2007, when I was in high school. All these years later and it’s still my preferred personal phone, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t have my complaints — especially with the software.
With every new mobile software release, there are always a few features or settings that I’m not too big on, and that includes the recent release of iOS 18.
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This is what the camera roll looks like now on iOS 18.
If you swipe down, you’ll continue to see random collections and albums, like pinned collections, shared albums, memories, trips, featured photos and wallpaper suggestions, all of which used to live in the Albums and For You tabs. Now they’re all in one place on iOS 18, which is the main view. And while that may be useful to some, I don’t need to see all of it at once. I just want to see my camera roll and some albums.
To customize the Photos app, swipe all the way down to the bottom and tap Customize and Reorder. Here you can uncheck any collections you wish to hide from the main view. You can also organize the order in which they appear. I don’t want wallpaper suggestions and most of the other options, so I unchecked everything but media types (organizes your media into videos, live photos, etc.) and utilities (albums for hidden, recently deleted, receipts, documents and so on.).
This is what my camera roll looks like after I removed all the clutter.
I use the Control Center all the time, to quickly connect to Wi-FI, enable Do Not Disturb, turn on dark mode or low battery mode and discover new songs with the music recognition control. However, with iOS 18, Apple expanded how the Control Center is designed, and it now has multiple pages of controls, some premade and others you can create yourself.
The things is, I don’t need multiple Control Center pages — I just need the one. I don’t want the clutter of multiple pages, because I can fit all the controls I need on a single page. But that’s not the only issue. I also find that when I now try to swipe out of the Control Center, I end up accidentally scrolling through the Control Center pages, and so I get stuck…and annoyed.
Once you remove the extra Control Center pages, you’ll no longer see the page icons on the center-left.
Now when you try to swipe out from the Control Center, you’ll no longer get stuck in the other pages. Instead, you’ll be able to easily exit like before.
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