Apple’s fall overhaul of its Photos app — publicized by the company as its “biggest redesign ever” — gave the software a fresh look and new methods for managing your portable picture library on the iPhone and iPad. However, not everyone was a fan, as the new design retired familiar navigational icons in favor of a “unified” view that put almost everything on one screen.

But thanks to inconspicuous menus and settings, you can arrange things more to your liking. Here’s how to find your stuff in the latest version of Photos, along with a quick look at some recent changes to the Google Photos app.

Take a Scroll

Apple’s iOS 18.2 update last week fixed a few issues that users had been complaining about since the new Photos app landed in September (like videos automatically looping). But the app’s overall design is the same: You start off on one big screen for your picture library, albums, videos, selfies and everything else.

How you find things depends on which way you scroll:

• Looking for albums, videos, favorites, the duplicates menu and other tools? Swipe in an upward motion to scroll toward the bottom of the app and through the automatically generated groupings (like Recent Days or People & Pets) and your handcrafted photo albums. The menus for Media Types and Utilities are here, too.

Change Your View

Both the photo library and the collections-and-menus areas are packed, but you can streamline what you see.