It’s incredibly frustrating when you’re trying to find a specific photo on your iPhone. You know it’s there, but the search function seems to be working against you. You might type in “Halloween” thinking you’ll quickly access those spooky memories, only to be bombarded with hundreds of irrelevant images. Or, you might search for “Florida videos” after a great vacation, and your phone insists no such videos exist, leading you to panic about lost memories. It makes you wonder, did that iOS update actually delete everything? Where did all your videos even go? It feels chaotic and, frankly, ridiculous.
This isn’t just limited to photos, either. Text messaging and contact searches are equally baffling. You could type out a full text message thread you know exists, and get zero results. Contacts are just as bad. Searching for “Bob” in your contacts requires endless scrolling past every entry that doesn’t contain “Bob” before you finally stumble upon the actual contact you need.
Is this some kind of glitch? Is Apple playing a joke on us? You might even try searching for “contact” within your iPhone settings search, and it won’t even find the Contacts app! Yet, if you manually navigate to your contacts, there they are, the same contacts that mysteriously vanished during a search.
It feels like these updates, instead of improving things, are actively breaking features that used to work perfectly fine. It’s enough to make you nostalgic for simpler times, maybe even considering a return to a basic flip phone. Using the photo app sometimes feels like navigating a maze, leaving you completely disoriented and questioning your own tech sanity. It’s a digital disaster zone, and many iPhone users are feeling the same pain when trying to simply search for their own content.
