how do I get rid of "Selfies" in photos of ios9?

The easiest way I have found is to download a free EXIF editor such as http://www.colorpilot.com/exif.html

Plug the phone in, open the EXIF editor and using the editor, browse to the Folder containing the photos that are tagged as "Selfies"

Select one of the photos and in the right hand pane of the editor, you'll see a tab that says "EXIF". Click that and a whole stack of data about the photo appears. The two relevant fields are under "Lens" and are at the bottom of the "Lens" data block. One refers to the F-stop and will be a series of figures .... double click that and it will come up with a block that shows 2.15mm (lot more figures but the first 4 are 2.15). Delete the tag.

Next tag is the very last tag in the Lens data block and will identify the lens used - in this case it will say "iPhone 6 (or whatever model) Front camera" - delete this tag.

Your "selfie" has now disappeared from the selfie folder as the iPhone no longer identifies it as a selfie

Note to Apple - please give US, the customers, control over how photos are managed and stored ......

Selfies is a predefined album, that you cannot delete or hide, just like the smart album Panoramic.

The album does not actually show selfies, it will show any photo taken with the front camera of an iPhone. Just ignore the silly name "Selfies" and consider it the album where you will find the photos taken with the front camera.

On the plus side - this album makes it easy to find and delete selfies you do not want on your iPhone.

I do hope Apple gives us an option to control this folder.

It might help to send feedback with a feature request and let Apple know.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

For me it would suffice to be able to rename the smart album Selfies to "Front Camera". The only Selfies I take are accidental photos. I use the front camera to take pictures of the ceiling in a church or similar, where I need to put the iPhone on the floor and still want to be able to see the display.

Apple used to make these features optional. It was one of the great things about Apple: you could customise how your computer/tablet/phone loked like (to a certain extent). Now they've forced a "Selfies" folder, a "Screenshots" folder and a "Recently deleted" folder on us (I know the latter was there since iOS 8, but that's beside the point). To add insult to injury, they've made it impossible to hide these folders or move them to the bottom of the list. Adding photos in my camera roll to one of my folders used to be a relatively quick process (tap "Select", select the photos to be moved, tap "Done" or "Next" or whatever, and choose a folder); now they've added a necessary step to that process (scrolling down to make my folders visible). I realise it's a matter of a second or two, but the seconds add up and eventually become a lot of wasted time.

Sorry for the rant, but these little things really **** me off and Apple keeps adding more and more of them to every OS release.

Apple used to make these features optional.

It's a difficult trade-off between no customization options at all and so many preference settings, that it is hard to get to know them all and to handle them. iOS could be improved.

Actually, there is a WAY to delete Selfies album from your iOS 9 device: http://ios9news.net/delete-selfies-screenshots-albums/

This works.

Only issue is that whenever you click a selfie next time, the folder reappears.

Some of the photos it has put under the Selfies folder were taken before a front camera was even available. Idk where it's getting the info to put them there, but it ***** big time. I don't need a folder called "Selfies!" Thanks, Apple.

TThe front camera photos have a certain lens tag in the EXIF metadata. But there may be vendors that have been using the same tag for there lenses. The EXIF tags can be ambitious. I have frequently seen the wrong lens label assigned to a photo in Aperture.

I tried removing the EXIF metadata from each individual picture, but that didn't work. UGH!!!

The folder doesn't even include all the pics that should be considered selfies. It a hosed up deal all the way around.

i really dont like this at all Apple! I had a selfies folder long before iOS 9, and was able to control the content. How about you fix the calendar...its been 3 updates and my Alerts are screwy

If you remove all photos from the album, the album disappears till you use the front facing camera again. Photos can be permanently moved out of 'selfies' by "altering" them, for instance by taking them into YouDoodle, Photoshop, or whatever, then resaving to the camera roll. Then it is no longer categorized as a photo taken with the front facing camera; not a selfie. You don't have to actually alter it, you only need to save it back to the camera roll from the app. Then you have it saved on your camera roll, and can delete it from Selfies without deleting it from the device, so you don't lose your photos. And you can save them in whatever album you want. This is a pain in the if you have a lot of those "selfies", but might work till Apple gives us a way out of the Selfie album.

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