A brand new app is providing a substitute for those that aren’t happy with the iOS 18 Pictures app “upgrade.” Capitalizing on the buyer backlash over Apple’s now one-page, tab-free redesign of its default Pictures app, pictures app maker LateNiteSoft is introducing a brand new app referred to as Photon Library. It not solely serves as a complement to its different pictures apps and photograph modifying instruments, but it surely additionally presents the acquainted look of the previous iOS Pictures app present in iOS 17 and earlier.
The corporate mentioned it was impressed to create another Pictures app after seeing how pissed off iOS 18 early adopters have been with Apple’s new design.
Since its debut within the iOS 18 betas, iPhone homeowners have been lamenting the adjustments coming to the Pictures app. Although the redesign presents higher customization, many imagine the app’s new look takes a step again by way of usability by cramming every part into one web page. Pages on Reddit are full of consumer complaints. Reviewers are calling it their largest gripe with the iOS 18 software program replace. In the meantime, a number of tech websites have begun providing tutorials on how one can customise the redesigned app to make it extra helpful — and extra just like the older model.
Photon Library presents one other different. Now, as a substitute of making an attempt to get comfy with the adjustments in Pictures, Picture Library presents a method for customers to easily return to the older-style feel and appear of Pictures, albeit in an expertise constructed by a 3rd celebration.
The app brings again a tabbed design and contains different Pictures app options like fundamental photograph grids, a listing of albums you may scroll by, and fast entry to your Favourite images.
Fairly than scrolling down the display screen as in iOS 18’s Pictures app, the underside tabs of Photon Library allow you to rapidly entry your latest images, your albums, a calendar view, or your favorites. That is barely completely different than the iOS 17 Pictures app, which supplied tabs for the Library, Albums, “For You,” and Search, however the firm thinks its tabs will show to be much more handy.
LateNiteSoft product supervisor Noël Rosenthal notes that the corporate hopes the resident household tech help particular person will hold their firm’s app in thoughts when their households improve to iOS 18 after which begin complaining about “how difficult the new Photos App is to use.”
To make the choice to modify apps simpler on customers, Photon Library received’t embody subscriptions. As a substitute, the app is a paid obtain for iPhone and iPad, and begins at $4.99 within the U.S. throughout its introductory interval on the App Retailer.
