A brand new app is providing a substitute for those that aren’t happy with the iOS 18 Photographs app “upgrade.” Capitalizing on the patron backlash over Apple’s now one-page, tab-free redesign of its default Photographs app, images app maker LateNiteSoft is introducing a brand new app referred to as Photon Library. It not solely serves as a complement to its different images apps and picture modifying instruments, nevertheless it additionally provides the acquainted look of the outdated iOS Photographs app present in iOS 17 and earlier.
The corporate mentioned it was impressed to create another Photographs app after seeing how annoyed iOS 18 early adopters had been with Apple’s new design.
Since its debut within the iOS 18 betas, iPhone homeowners have been lamenting the modifications coming to the Photographs app. Although the redesign provides higher customization, many imagine the app’s new look takes a step again by way of usability by cramming all the pieces into one web page. Pages on Reddit are crammed with person 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 you can customise the redesigned app to make it extra helpful — and extra just like the older model.
Photon Library provides one other various. Now, as an alternative of attempting to get comfy with the modifications in Photographs, Picture Library provides a method for customers to easily return to the older-style feel and look of Photographs, albeit in an expertise constructed by a 3rd get together.
The app brings again a tabbed design and contains different Photographs app options like primary picture grids, a listing of albums you’ll be able to scroll by, and fast entry to your Favourite pictures.
Moderately than scrolling down the display screen as in iOS 18’s Photographs app, the underside tabs of Photon Library allow you to shortly entry your current pictures, your albums, a calendar view, or your favorites. That is barely totally different than the iOS 17 Photographs 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 maintain 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 gained’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.
