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Apple's latest iOS 18 beta walks back some changes to the redesigned Photos app

Apple is pumping the brakes on some of its updates to the Photos app in iOS 18. The company made some changes — removing some features and tweaking others — on Monday to address user feedback.

Previously found to the right of the photo grid, it’s now gone altogether, helping Apple clean up one of the features that earned a healthy dose of complaints from beta testers. Although the app is streamlined into a single view and designed to be more customizable, it too often ends up as a mishmash of extra features most people won’t need, sometimes getting in the way of finding what you’re looking for. Time will tell if today’s updates are enough to clean up the app’s user experience ahead of iOS 18’s fall launch to the public.

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