I want to create a Smart Folder to show only photos that are not yet in a folder. I saw the answer in a previous question with the same title as this. It has a screen shot showing a choice of options to create the folder. I don’t see how to get to that menu or option. How do I do that?
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iPhone 16 Plus, iOS 18
iOS and iPadOS don't do Smart Albums. Smart Albums are part of MacOS. ( In Photos, "Album" means things with pictures in them; "Folder" means things with Albums in them. )
If you want a list of pictures that are not in Albums, Yer_Man , a knowledgable fellow here, suggests that you check out HashPhotos
https://apps.apple.com/ie/app/hashphotos/id685784609
I see that it has those notorious "In-app Purchases" and subscriptions. I haven't used it-- I use my Mac. But Yer_Man seems pretty trustworthy.
iOS and iPadOS don't do Smart Albums. Smart Albums are part of MacOS. ( In Photos, "Album" means things with pictures in them; "Folder" means things with Albums in them. )
If you want a list of pictures that are not in Albums, Yer_Man , a knowledgable fellow here, suggests that you check out HashPhotos
https://apps.apple.com/ie/app/hashphotos/id685784609
I see that it has those notorious "In-app Purchases" and subscriptions. I haven't used it-- I use my Mac. But Yer_Man seems pretty trustworthy.
PO’d wrote: photo filing - Apple Community …
The unfortunate news is that this link is from right after this Community went from "Mac Photos Only" to "All Photos Everywhere," and the author (that would be me) clearly didn't notice that the question was about an iPhone. It's a good way to do it on a Mac, though…
Thank you kind sir. For all the wizardry on the iPhone, it seems pretty basic to want to avoid having to view a huge library of all your pictures as the default, with no way too see which ones are already tagged as being in an album.
Do you still have 4000+ pictures not in any album?
PO’d wrote:… it seems pretty basic to want to avoid having to view a huge library of all your pictures as the default,
This only makes sense if you only put pictures in one album each. But picture from the Library can be put in many albums. The picture of "Aunt Ethel at the Grand Canyon" can be in the "Aunt Ethel" album with other pictures of Aunt Ethel, and it can also be in the "Grand Canyon" album with pictures of other people at the Grand Canyon. And it can also be in the May 2018 album. This is very powerful in organizing pictures. If you could only choose from pictures that weren't in any albums, then you'd lose much of the power of Photos.
On iOS 18 you can see, if a photo is already in an album.
Open a photo to view it, then swipe up to see the details below it.Below the map with the location you will find a list of all the albums the photo is in.
For example, the photo below has been added to two albums.
Thanks for replying. My purpose here is to get rid of unwanted pictures. Any pictures in an album, or multiple albums, I have made a decision that they are worth keeping. I want to see pictures that I haven’t yet decided whether to keep or not so I can clean things up every once in a while (and avoid having to pay for more iCloud storage).
Maybe there’s another way to do that?
PO’d wrote:
I want to create a Smart Folder to show only photos that are not yet in a folder. I saw the answer in a previous question with the same title as this. It has a screen shot showing a choice of options to create the folder. I don’t see how to get to that menu or option. How do I do that?
Can you post a link to that thread so we can see what you're referring to?
photo filing - Apple Community
I had a devil of a time finding this again. Using the title of the post in search got me nowhere. As I kept searching repeatedly trying to use specific words as I remembered them, the results got less and less relevant.
How do I create a Smart Folder for photos not yet in a folder on iPhone?
