iPhone photo album size

Is there any way, how I could find out the size of a photo album on my iPhone? I am running out of iCloud storage and would like to know which album contains the biggest media files so I can start sorting in that album.

Posted on May 17, 2023 4:27 AM

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Posted on May 18, 2023 5:45 PM

Hello csorrike,


Thanks for posting in the Apple Support Communities.


In the Photos app on iPhone, the albums are used to assist with organizing your photos, however the photos will remain in the All Photos album. So essentially the albums you created don't necessarily take up additional space in iCloud storage. What's recorded as used for iCloud Storage is the entirety of your photo library.


If you'd like more information about this, reviewing Organize and find your photos on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support is a great place to start.


If you need help managing your photo and video storage, you will find some great tips and suggestions in Manage your photo and video storage - Apple Support.


Best regards.



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May 18, 2023 5:45 PM in response to csorrike

Hello csorrike,


Thanks for posting in the Apple Support Communities.


In the Photos app on iPhone, the albums are used to assist with organizing your photos, however the photos will remain in the All Photos album. So essentially the albums you created don't necessarily take up additional space in iCloud storage. What's recorded as used for iCloud Storage is the entirety of your photo library.


If you'd like more information about this, reviewing Organize and find your photos on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support is a great place to start.


If you need help managing your photo and video storage, you will find some great tips and suggestions in Manage your photo and video storage - Apple Support.


Best regards.



May 18, 2023 11:14 PM in response to csorrike

On the iPhone I do not know of any way to sort the videos in your Photos Library by size. Generally, the videos with a long duration will have a large file size. Portrait photos are larger than regular photos, as they need a depth map. Panoramic images, Raw images, or TIFF images are larger than simple JPEGs or HEIC images. If you are using external editors, the edited versions can be larger than the original. So the Media Kind albums might be a good starting point to find large items on your iPhone.


Do you have a Mac as well? If your iCloud Photos Library is synced with a computer, it might be easier to find the largest items on the computer. On a Mac you could use the free trial version or PowerPhotos to show your photos as a table showing the size of the photos and to sort them by the file size.



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