Camera roll & Notes

Let me see if I understand you correctly. You wish to copy a photo to a note, save the note, then delete the photo from the Camera Roll?

That should work, however I don't really understand the reasoning behind this. Is there a specific reason you wish to handle photos in that manner?

The Camera Roll is where photos taken on the iPhone reside. If you move something to another album, all that does is put a pointer for the photo into that album, so you can see it, but the photo itself only resides in the Camera Roll, and when you delete it from the Camera Roll, it deletes it from the phone, period. Are you using iCloud Photos, or are you creating these other albums in other ways? If you wish to arrange photos in albums on the phone, doing that by syncing through iTunes is an option, or you can use iCloud Photos as an option. However, remember that iCloud Photos is just for syncing. The photos are in iCloud, and synced to individual devices. However, if you delete a photo from one device, it deletes it from iCloud as well as any other device it is synced with.

On the iPhone, you don't really have access to a file system like Windows, so yes, you are creating an album to make it easier to find a photo based on groupings, but you are not really copying and pasting the photo to the new album, but the pointer as I indicated earlier. If you wish to have photos in only one place, you may be better off importing the photos to the computer from the Camera Roll, then clearing the Camera Roll and then syncing folders of photos that you have created on the computer to the iPhone via iTunes. That way, the photos are archived on the computer for safe keeping, then you can put whichever ones you wish to put back on the iPhone, and they can be arranged as you please into specific albums like Summer Vacation 2018, or Rick's new car, etc. That will keep just the pictures you wish to have on the phone. Again, if you want to add new photos to the folder, you will have to do that on the computer. You will not be able to add photos to those folders from the Camera Roll.

You're welcome.