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. The pared-down version can be found in the softwares fifth developer beta, which app makers can install today.The biggest change is that Apple removed the Carousel from the Photos app altogether. The iOS 18 feature used on-device intelligence (which, confusingly, isnt the same as Apple Intelligence) to aggregate what it thought was your best content, placing them in a swipeable row. Previously found to the right of the photo grid, its now gone altogether, helping Apple clean up one of the features that earned a healthy dose of complaints from beta testers.In addition, Apple tweaked the All Photos view in todays update to show more of the photos grid. The company also added Recently Saved content to the Recent Days collection. Finally, Apple made albums easier to find for users with more than one. (The difficulty of locating that section was a frequently echoed complaint among testers.)AppleApple pitched the changes to the Photos app as one of the pillars of its 2024 software update. 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 wont need, sometimes getting in the way of finding what youre looking for.A Reddit thread from July with over 1,000 upvotes gave voice to some of the most frequent complaints. Once again taking a rapid-use app and making it into an experience for no reason, u/thiskillstheredditor commented. I just want a camera roll and maybe the ability to sort photos by location. It was perfectly fine, if maybe a bit bloated, before. But this is an unmitigated mess.Time will tell if todays updates are enough to clean up the apps user experience ahead of iOS 18s fall launch to the public. The changes arent yet in the public beta but will likely appear there in the next version or soon after.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/apples-latest-ios-18-beta-walks-back-some-changes-to-the-redesigned-photos-app-180145232.html?src=rss