I need to sort through photos as it’s using a huge amount of data and storage, so attempting to find photos not in any albums but I can’t seem to be able to filter these out? Is there not a way of identifying which photos in the library are not allocated to any album?
iPhone 13 Pro Max, iOS 17
On a Mac:
If you're trying to organise your Library and want to find images not in albums, then a simple Smart Album
File -> New Smart Album
Album -> Is Not -> Any
will find these images. As you add them to albums they will disappear from the Smart Album.
On iPad or iPhone, which do not currently support Smart Albums:
Check out HashPhotos
https://apps.apple.com/ie/app/hashphotos/id685784609
It integrates with Photos on your iOS device and adds a Smart Album feature. Using this app a search
!#inalbum
Will find images not in an album
(Hat tip to User ukSamo for the recommending this app.)
On a Mac:
If you're trying to organise your Library and want to find images not in albums, then a simple Smart Album
File -> New Smart Album
Album -> Is Not -> Any
will find these images. As you add them to albums they will disappear from the Smart Album.
On iPad or iPhone, which do not currently support Smart Albums:
Check out HashPhotos
https://apps.apple.com/ie/app/hashphotos/id685784609
It integrates with Photos on your iOS device and adds a Smart Album feature. Using this app a search
!#inalbum
Will find images not in an album
(Hat tip to User ukSamo for the recommending this app.)
Walshy wrote:… is there not a way of identifying which photos in the library are not allocated to any album?
In iOS18, you can see which albums a picture is in using the Info Window. You have to scroll down through the Info Window to see it:
But at the bottom, below the location map, you can see that this picture is in three albums.
If you click on that, then you see
just which albums the picture is in.
You do have to look one at a time at the pictures-- as Yer_Man said, there are no Smart Albums.
If you do not have a Mac to set this up, how do you see on your phone iOS 18 only the photos not in any album?
Have you tried reading the answer above to the end? Especially the bit beginning
On iPad or iPhone, which do not currently support Smart Albums:
:)
Yes I have tried reading the answers. Thank you
Photos filter - not in any album?
