Categorizing images on iPhone

I'm a new iPhone user and it has been absolutely infuriating to me that the phone stores ALL images in recents. Pictures from the camera, pictures saved from Facebook, pictures saved from internet browsers, screenshots - everything is just piled up in the same folder.


Now I understand that there are albums, but I can't choose an album like I would do on Android and designate it for pictures saved from Facebook let's say, where after that it just sends it there. I have to manually duplicate them into that album.


Seems stupid that now I have to spend good 30 minutes every Sunday manually sending pictures I acquired over the week to different albums on a device this expensive, when even a $150 android can do this automatically. I'm neurodivergent and it's starting to be extremely overwhelming that everything is just mixed in one place and takes so much time to detangle. Like I would imagine it would at the very least have an album for camera roll that is separate from pictures that are saved, but it doesn't. And I can't delete those pictures from that giant mess album, because doing that deletes it everywhere else. Arrrrgh.


Is there a trick to this that I just don't know or are Apple developers really that blind to this issue?

iPhone SE, iOS 17

Posted on Oct 29, 2023 6:59 PM

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Oct 30, 2023 2:41 AM in response to nn7

There are a few albums that are showing you the photos according to the media kind. The iPhone is automatically showing you photos grouped by Panoramic, Raw, Portrait, etc. Look at the bottom of the Albums tab. But there is no specific predefined album for Facebook photos. You can also see "Shared with you" photos in one place, if you enable it. See: View photos and videos shared with you on iPhone Apple Support Official Apple Support › ios


Encourage your friend and family to send you shared photos in Shared albums (if they are having an Apple device), so they will arrive automatically sorted in albums in your Photos Library. The cloud storage for Shared albums is free.


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