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Q: how do I get rid of "Selfies" in photos of ios9?

I see a new folder in IOS 9 entitled "Selfies" it contains pictures that everyone has sent me that was a selfie. How do I delete this folder?

iPhone 6, iOS 9

Posted on Sep 19, 2015 12:50 PM

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Q: how do I get rid of "Selfies" in photos of ios9?

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  • by léonie,Helpful

    léonie léonie Sep 19, 2015 5:28 PM in response to hyperascaldad
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    Sep 19, 2015 5:28 PM in response to hyperascaldad

    Selfies is a predefined album, that you cannot delete or hide, just like the smart album Panoramic.

    The album does not actually show selfies, it will show any photo taken with the front camera of an iPhone. Just ignore the silly name "Selfies" and consider it the album where you will find the photos taken with the front camera.

     

    On the plus side - this album makes it easy to find and delete  selfies you do not want on your iPhone.

  • by hyperascaldad,

    hyperascaldad hyperascaldad Sep 19, 2015 5:31 PM in response to léonie
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    Sep 19, 2015 5:31 PM in response to léonie

    Thank you for the info. I do hope Apple gives us an option to control this folder. Unlike the Panarama and Video folder this one has a lot of nonsense stuff in it and does not warrant its own special folder. In my humble opinion of course.

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Sep 20, 2015 9:33 AM in response to hyperascaldad
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    Sep 20, 2015 9:33 AM in response to hyperascaldad

    I do hope Apple gives us an option to control this folder.

     

    It might help to send feedback with a feature request and let Apple know.

     

    http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

     

    For me it would suffice to be able to rename the smart album Selfies to "Front Camera".  The only Selfies I take are accidental photos. I use the front camera to take pictures of the ceiling in a church or similar, where I need to put the iPhone on the floor and still want to be able to see the display.

  • by Lux Infinita,Helpful

    Lux Infinita Lux Infinita Sep 20, 2015 5:55 PM in response to léonie
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    Sep 20, 2015 5:55 PM in response to léonie

    Apple used to make these features optional. It was one of the great things about Apple: you could customise how your computer/tablet/phone loked like (to a certain extent). Now they've forced a "Selfies" folder, a "Screenshots" folder and a "Recently deleted" folder on us (I know the latter was there since iOS 8, but that's beside the point). To add insult to injury, they've made it impossible to hide these folders or move them to the bottom of the list. Adding photos in my camera roll to one of my folders used to be a relatively quick process (tap "Select", select the photos to be moved, tap "Done" or "Next" or whatever, and choose a folder); now they've added a necessary step to that process (scrolling down to make my folders visible). I realise it's a matter of a second or two, but the seconds add up and eventually become a lot of wasted time.

     

    Sorry for the rant, but these little things really **** me off and Apple keeps adding more and more of them to every OS release.

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Sep 21, 2015 12:33 AM in response to Lux Infinita
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    Sep 21, 2015 12:33 AM in response to Lux Infinita
    Apple used to make these features optional.

    It's a difficult trade-off between no customization options at all and so many preference settings, that it is hard to get  to know them all and to handle them.  iOS could be improved.

  • by sidice,

    sidice sidice Sep 21, 2015 9:10 PM in response to hyperascaldad
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    Sep 21, 2015 9:10 PM in response to hyperascaldad

    Actually, there is a WAY to delete Selfies album from your iOS 9 device: http://ios9news.net/delete-selfies-screenshots-albums/

     

    This works.

     

    Only issue is that whenever you click a selfie next time, the folder reappears.

  • by Katherine13,

    Katherine13 Katherine13 Sep 21, 2015 10:41 PM in response to léonie
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    Sep 21, 2015 10:41 PM in response to léonie

    Some of the photos it has put under the Selfies folder were taken before a front camera was even available. Idk where it's getting the info to put them there, but it ***** big time. I don't need a folder called "Selfies!" Thanks, Apple.

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Sep 22, 2015 12:38 AM in response to Katherine13
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    Sep 22, 2015 12:38 AM in response to Katherine13

    TThe front camera photos have a certain lens tag in the EXIF metadata. But there may be vendors that have been using the same tag for there lenses. The EXIF tags can be ambitious. I have frequently seen the wrong lens label assigned to a photo in Aperture.

  • by hyperascaldad,

    hyperascaldad hyperascaldad Sep 22, 2015 10:53 AM in response to sidice
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    Sep 22, 2015 10:53 AM in response to sidice

    Well, I gave this a try and everything went as described for the "screenshot" folder but did nothing to eliminate the "selfies" folder

  • by Katherine13,

    Katherine13 Katherine13 Sep 22, 2015 7:15 PM in response to léonie
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    Sep 22, 2015 7:15 PM in response to léonie

    I tried removing the EXIF metadata from each individual picture, but that didn't work. UGH!!!

  • by Katherine13,

    Katherine13 Katherine13 Sep 22, 2015 7:16 PM in response to léonie
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    Sep 22, 2015 7:16 PM in response to léonie

    The folder doesn't even include all the pics that should be considered selfies. It a hosed up deal all the way around.

  • by LightOfMine,

    LightOfMine LightOfMine Sep 24, 2015 8:24 PM in response to hyperascaldad
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    Sep 24, 2015 8:24 PM in response to hyperascaldad

    i really dont like this at all Apple!  I had a selfies folder long before iOS 9, and was able to control the content. How about you fix the calendar...its been 3 updates and my Alerts are screwy

  • by bj1906,

    bj1906 bj1906 Sep 25, 2015 1:21 AM in response to hyperascaldad
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    Sep 25, 2015 1:21 AM in response to hyperascaldad

    If you remove all photos from the album, the album disappears till you use the front facing camera again.  Photos can be permanently moved out of 'selfies' by "altering" them, for instance by taking them into YouDoodle, Photoshop, or whatever, then resaving to the camera roll. Then it is no longer categorized as a photo taken with the front facing camera; not a selfie.  You don't have to actually alter it, you only need to save it back to the camera roll from the app. Then you have it saved on your camera roll, and can delete it from Selfies without deleting it from the device, so you don't lose your photos. And you can save them in whatever album you want.  This is a pain in the if you have a lot of those "selfies", but might work till Apple gives us a way out of the Selfie album.

     

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  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Sep 25, 2015 11:44 AM in response to LightOfMine
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    Sep 25, 2015 11:44 AM in response to LightOfMine

    Don't tell us.  We're just users like yourself.  Tell Apple via https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

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