Download iMessage photos to specific album on iPhone

bigdogg57 wrote:

iPhone - how to download iMessage photos to a specific album so that they are not intermingled into my library photos by date

Messages app cannot do that, as it does not support that function itself, and also does not support share sheets.

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For those apps where you can use share sheets, you can create a share sheet shortcut to do what you want here. You maybe able to save files to a folder somewhere, and then use Files app to share those photo files into a specific album.

Something akin to this example, which has some options for where the photos are stored:

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/b913dd0c0cb549f88ae1be595f467a29

Here is some info on how Shortcuts works:

Shortcuts User Guide - Apple Support