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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 LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN May 26, 2016 6:28 AM in response to Paintbeanie
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    May 26, 2016 6:28 AM in response to Paintbeanie

    Or the best solution that takes no work and will not reduce photo quality in any way - ignore the selfie album and any other album that you are not interested in and never open or look at them

     

    LN

  • by Christos66,

    Christos66 Christos66 Jun 14, 2016 7:29 AM in response to hyperascaldad
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    Jun 14, 2016 7:29 AM in response to hyperascaldad

    Unfortunately those new features that Apple added as a dead giveaway does annoy a lot of users, like me too.

    There is no way to delete pictures in Selfie or Screenshot folder, neither single pictures, nor the whole folder.

    Also the proposed solution to create a new Album/folder and add Selfie pics into it, then delete all selfies in the Selfie folder,

    apparently DOES NOT work. Delete icon stays greyed out and cannot be used.

     

    So the only solution to get rid of Selfie folder and Screenshot folder is to synchronize Photos in iTunes and to delete all photos on iPhone through this action.

    If you want to reintegrate the photos you have deleted before again into your iPhone, it will most likely retain the same structure as before, i.e. same Selfie folder and content, same Screenshot folder and content. So you MUST get rid of ex- or imported Photos, that are classified as Selfies and/or Screenshots, to avoid that these folders are recreated.

     

    Anyhow, the declaration of Selfie as an Selfie by Apple seems to be sold to users as a feature, I find it utterly annoying. I myself would like to decide which folders are being created and deleted, a preconfigurated unchangeable solution by apple is not an added feature. Especially not, when it introduces more steps to manage Photos and folders and thus costs the user more valuable time. It seems that Apple has lost the view, that Steve Jobs used to have!

  • by ShannonFr,

    ShannonFr ShannonFr Jul 14, 2016 3:32 AM in response to hyperascaldad
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    Jul 14, 2016 3:32 AM in response to hyperascaldad

    The only way I've seemed to keep it at bay is to find what the photos are in 'Photos' on your mac. Then download 'ImageOptim'. Drag those photos into 'ImageOptim' and it will strip the metadata that makes the iphone sort them into selfies and screenshots. Then replace those photos in 'Photos' with the stripped ones and re-sync your iphone. The folders 'Selfies' and 'Screenshots' should be gone.

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jul 14, 2016 4:41 AM in response to ShannonFr
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    Jul 14, 2016 4:41 AM in response to ShannonFr

    I would not sacrifice the metadata, at least not without copying them to the description field or keywords.  If Apple should fix this problem one day and make the automatically created smart albums optional you will want to get the metadata back.

  • by zlatan21,

    zlatan21 zlatan21 Jul 27, 2016 3:41 PM in response to hyperascaldad
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    Jul 27, 2016 3:41 PM in response to hyperascaldad

    hi, every other method didnt work for me accept when i deleted the picture of my photos app thing on my mac then unsynced the photos from itunes which usually comes up with an option to erase all photos from your phone (which i clicked yes) then i resynced my phone back to the photo library app on my mac and the photo was gone from the selfie album

  • by mariotheplumber,

    mariotheplumber mariotheplumber Sep 16, 2016 8:17 AM in response to Katherine13
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    Sep 16, 2016 8:17 AM in response to Katherine13

    I just removed EXIF data from about a dozen images as a test & reloaded to device - worked, no longer creates a SELFIE folder. Also tested it with GPS data and PLACES folder no longer created either.

  • by mariotheplumber,

    mariotheplumber mariotheplumber Sep 16, 2016 8:18 AM in response to léonie
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    Sep 16, 2016 8:18 AM in response to léonie

    unless you have loaded them to you device via iTunes, then you are stuck with them as you can't delete them on the device.

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Sep 16, 2016 8:21 AM in response to mariotheplumber
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    Sep 16, 2016 8:21 AM in response to mariotheplumber

    mariotheplumber wrote:

     

    unless you have loaded them to you device via iTunes, then you are stuck with them as you can't delete them on the device.

    Yes, you'll have to sync the device again to remove the synced photos.

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