Find your Favorites and albums in Photos on your iPhone or iPad

Learn how to locate your albums and favorite collections in Photos in iOS 18.

Find your Favorites

1. Open Photos.

2. Scroll down to Pinned Collections.

3. Tap Favorites.

You can also customize your pinned collections to add other albums you use often.

Find your videos and other media types

1. Open Photos.

2. Scroll down to Media Types.

3. Tap a collection like Videos or Selfies, or tap Media Types to see more.

You can also open Videos and other media types from your Pinned Collections.

Find your Recently Deleted, Hidden, and more

1. Open Photos.

2. Scroll down to Utilities.

3. Tap a collection like Recently Deleted or Hidden, or tap Utilities to see more.

Find your albums

1. Open Photos.

2. Scroll down to Albums.

3. Tap the album that you want to open, or tap Albums to see more.

Customize Pinned Collections

By default, Pinned Collections includes Favorites, Recently Saved, Map, Videos, and Screenshots. You can customize what appears in Pinned Collections for quick access.

1. Open Photos.

2. Scroll down, then tap Pinned Collections.

3. Tap Modify, then do any of the following:

• Pin a collection: Tap the Add button to add a suggested collection, or scroll down and tap Any Collection or Album to see more options. You can add any collection from your library, such as Recently Deleted, Selfies, Receipts, or your favorite custom albums.

• Remove a pinned collection: Tap the Remove button, then tap Delete.

• Reorder pinned collections: Drag the Reorder button to move a collection into a new order.

Reorder collections

You can change the order of collections so that the items you use most frequently appear first.

1. Open Photos.

2. Scroll to the bottom of the app, then tap Customize & Reorder.

3. Drag the collections into a new order.