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Change the way thumbnails look in the iOS Photos app

The iOS Photos app defaults to showing you square thumbnails but you can switch to “Aspect Ratio” thumbnails, which are much more useful.

Latest iOS Version

The latest iOS (and iPadOS) is 15.0.2, released Monday, October 1th, 2021. This is a bug-fix update and the list of fixes is long, so if you're on any version of iOS 15 I would get this right away. Ditto for iPadOS. Even so, I recommend you stay away from iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 until we have 15.2 updates available. iOS 15 seems to slow devices down, and while there will surely be a 15.1 update soon, that update will be fixing the bugs that Apple knew about when it shipped 15.0. Now that iOS 15 is out "in the wild" we'll all be helping to find additional bugs. Those will not get fixed until 15.2 (and maybe not then). Take my advice: wait for iOS 15.2. If you've already updated your iPhone to iOS 15, or your iPad to iPadOS 15, or if you've purchased a new Apple device with iOS or iPadOS 15 on it, definitely get this 15.0.2 update. Otherwise, stay on iOS and iPadOS 14.