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How do i move photos from my camera roll into folders and then delete them from the camera roll so they are organized. This should be the simplest task.
iPhone X, iOS 14
As long as you are using only Photos on the iPhone, there is no way to clear the photos from the Camera Roll and to organise them in custom folders. We cannot move photos out of the library folders and use them in other albums. Any photo we remove from "All Photos" will be deleted completely from the library.
Photos is working this way: The "Library" with the predefined albums "All Photos", "Recents" , "Imports" and others is the basic structure where all photos are stored, only once. And "ALL Photos" is per definition always showing all photos. Photos is creating automatically selections of these photos and presenting them in separate albums according to the Media Type or the date of import. These are just different views of the photos in the library.
We are invited to create additional folders and albums according to our needs, on top of this basic predefined structure. You could create your own "My Camera Roll" album with all photos and use this album to distribute your photos to other album. only rom the albums you create yourself you can remove photos freely, without deleting them from all other albums.
As long as you are using only Photos on the iPhone, there is no way to clear the photos from the Camera Roll and to organise them in custom folders. We cannot move photos out of the library folders and use them in other albums. Any photo we remove from "All Photos" will be deleted completely from the library.
Photos is working this way: The "Library" with the predefined albums "All Photos", "Recents" , "Imports" and others is the basic structure where all photos are stored, only once. And "ALL Photos" is per definition always showing all photos. Photos is creating automatically selections of these photos and presenting them in separate albums according to the Media Type or the date of import. These are just different views of the photos in the library.
We are invited to create additional folders and albums according to our needs, on top of this basic predefined structure. You could create your own "My Camera Roll" album with all photos and use this album to distribute your photos to other album. only rom the albums you create yourself you can remove photos freely, without deleting them from all other albums.
Start here:
… Transfer photos and videos from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to your Mac or PC
I’ll also mention a common source of confusion and trouble: that the date of file creation is not the date associated with the photo, and that the EXIF metadata stored within the photo has that and other details, where the file system metadata does not. Too many folks have gotten erroneously tied to the file system dates, and not to the EXIF metadata as is preferred and far more reliable.
Or… If you don’t want to use the existing Apple tools, such as Photos and iCloud Photos, and related:
… Transfer images in Image Capture on Mac - Apple Support
If you want to stay strictly on the iPhone device and not use iCloud Photos, and not use a Mac or Windows computer, that’s tougher… Here’s an earlier discussion of that:
… How to move Photos Out of Camera Roll? - Apple Community
Keeping photos entirely locally on an iPhone without remote backups or use of iCloud does mean the loss or theft or damage or dunking of an iPhone is a catastrophic loss of all photos, though.
And I’d suggest updating to iOS 15.4.1; to current.
How do i move photos from my camera roll into folders and then delete them from the camera roll so they are organized. This should be the simplest task.
