# Plex Photos App **URL:** \ **Category:** Plex Players\ **Tags:** photos-app, ios\ **Created:** [May 5, 2025, 2:52pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-photos-app/917080 "2025-05-05T14:52:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![zekyl314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e5b9ba/32.png) [@zekyl314](https://forums.plex.tv/u/zekyl314)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 2:52pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-photos-app/917080/1 "2025-05-05T14:52:44Z")
Server Version#: 1.41.7.9749 Your device: Apple iPhone 14 Pro The device OS: 18.4.1 Plex app version: Plex Photos v0.3.0 What you were doing when the issue happened: Plex photos are no longer downloadable to my local device to share with others via social media or text messages. Whether it’s reproducible: Yes ---
**Author:** ![TryEmAll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@TryEmAll](https://forums.plex.tv/u/TryEmAll)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-photos-app/917080/2 "2025-05-05T15:28:47Z")
Received the new Plex on iOS. Hate it. Used it mostly for photos and that function is gone. Downloaded Plex Photos. No random order slideshow function – the one I used most! Also, no landscape display after the first three photos. (I have a lifetime Plex Pass.) Even the first three don’t display full screen. This is one of the WORST rollouts I have even seen, but consistent with the usual disregard Plex seems to have for its customers. ---
**Author:** ![LeonJAl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5a626/32.png) [@LeonJAl](https://forums.plex.tv/u/LeonJAl)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2025, 2:19pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-photos-app/917080/3 "2025-05-10T14:19:06Z")
PlexPhotos iOS version: v0.3.0 Noting that photos and photo library features are no longer part of the main Plex app and that they are now exclusively accessed via the PlexPhotos app. Here are the immediate top issues with the PlexPhotos app… • The Timeline is effectively unusable… \*\* Load time for the Timeline is about 5+ minute for me (I have ~85,000 photos). And, there appears to be no caching as this happens every time the app is opened. \*\* Once Timeline photos do load, there is no scroll thumb or year index. \*\*There is no way to filter or search by date taken. \*\* One can only swipe up/down to scroll which won’t work for anything more than a trivial few hundred photos… • Photo Details (“i”) lacks EXIF meta-data for location. And, has lost the mapping feature. • There’s no way to control/manage the Recommended tab beyond the default. \*\* For me the default shows only 3 rows: Recently Added, Photos from 1967, and Photos from 1930s. Certainly an odd choice for default. Given that photos are now exclusively accessible on iOS via the PlexPhotos app only, when can we expect an update that begins to address these major issues? (note - it hasn’t been updated since initial beta release last Sept 2024) ---
**Author:** ![Yaracuy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/yaracuy/32/313162_2.png) [@Yaracuy](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Yaracuy)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2025, 2:32pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-photos-app/917080/4 "2025-05-10T14:32:10Z")
> [@Photos Beta Feedback](https://forums.plex.tv/t/photos-beta-feedback/885116/180): > > Hi all, I know it’s been a long time since I last posted an update in here, and for that I apologise. We’ve been flat out working on the main Plex app (first the release, and since then, the weekly fast-follows with fixes and improvements). Thankfully, with the new shared architecture, a lot of these aforementioned improvements are able to be shared with the Photos app, and so I have a little bit of good news today; we’re now in the final stages of testing a new update for the Photos app with … ---
**Author:** ![mdeayton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@mdeayton](https://forums.plex.tv/u/mdeayton)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 8:37am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-photos-app/917080/5 "2025-06-08T08:37:00Z")
The lack of a search tool is appalling ---
**Author:** ![EEDacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@EEDacho](https://forums.plex.tv/u/EEDacho)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 11:38am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-photos-app/917080/6 "2025-06-08T11:38:33Z")
The new and improved photos app now works. Hooray. Videos also play pretty well (which they did not do for me in the Plex app). Plex Photos works on local lan as well as remote via internet. If we could get a simple search and download to phone option I would be a happy camper! ---
**Author:** ![zekyl314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e5b9ba/32.png) [@zekyl314](https://forums.plex.tv/u/zekyl314)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-photos-app/917080/7 "2025-06-12T16:07:29Z")
Any idea when the ability to download photos will be available? We miss this dearly and causes a lot of frustration. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-photos-app/917080/8 "2025-09-10T16:08:15Z")
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