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

I see a new folder in IOS 9 entitled "Selfies" it contains pictures that everyone has sent me that was a selfie. How do I delete this folder?

iPhone 6, iOS 9

Posted on Sep 19, 2015 12:50 PM

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

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  • by macadamea,

    macadamea macadamea Oct 29, 2015 12:13 PM in response to léonie
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    Oct 29, 2015 12:13 PM in response to léonie

    So so mad. The "Selfies" folder confused "Image Capture" on my computer. I usually do an evening backup of photos using "Image Capture." I did the backup last night and checked that the 100 pictures were on my desktop. I generally just check two or three pictures out of the hundred or so just to make sure the data is there. I did this last night and cleared out my photo album on my phone. Well all the photos that were in the "Selfies" folder got deleted and never transferred. First time ever at a place I had always wanted to go to and the photos are gone. Of all the things Apple has to redevelop they need to leave the wares that manage critical data alone. I just assumed the photo album would work like it always worked but apparently it does not. Wasn't expecting this. So p'od.

  • by Mazr,

    Mazr Mazr Oct 31, 2015 10:06 PM in response to hyperascaldad
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    Oct 31, 2015 10:06 PM in response to hyperascaldad

    Selfies is an unwanted and unwarranted intrusion into my photos...it serves no purpose other than to make me want to ditch using Photo

  • by chicagobeck,

    chicagobeck chicagobeck Nov 1, 2015 12:59 PM in response to hyperascaldad
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    Nov 1, 2015 12:59 PM in response to hyperascaldad

    One workaround, if you're not worried about preserving the original photo's resolution, is to open each photo in the Selfies album, do a screenshot (power button and home button at same time), then you can delete the photos in the Selfies album and the folder disappears.  This puts your screenshots in the Camera Roll and the Screenshots album, but you're likely to have the Screenshots album anyway, so at least you can get rid of the Selfies album.

  • by BobSnow,

    BobSnow BobSnow Nov 2, 2015 3:15 PM in response to chicagobeck
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    Nov 2, 2015 3:15 PM in response to chicagobeck

    Not to beat a dead horse, but I've now got over a dozen photos appearing in my "selfies folder" that were taken back in 1997 with an Apple Quick Take 200.  Yes, the EXIF data from the old QT200 qualifies it as a "selfie" and all of my photos from back then appear in the selfies folder on two Macs, an iPhone and a pair of iPads.  I know I can scrub all of the EXIF data from the photos to keep them from appearing on all of myMacs and iDevices as selfies, but I want to keep that data with original files.  In the past, EXIF data helped me to identify the age of my very old cat!  Anyone know how to fix this?  I am an Aperture user from when it was first introduced and I transitioned more than 10,000 photos to the Apple Photo app.  I am waiting patiently for Photos extensions that will help with perspective correction and combining multiple exposures for HDR.  A couple of steps backward for now with Photos and El Capitan.

  • by divonnais,

    divonnais divonnais Nov 8, 2015 9:18 AM in response to Lux Infinita
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    Nov 8, 2015 9:18 AM in response to Lux Infinita

    I utterly agree. The new Photos app for OS is designed to reduce us all to acne teenage. No way to remove Selfies, Panoramas. The wonderful Events of iPhoto has gone and you have to fake them with albums. What a disater. I shall move to Lightroom on the Mac and treat the iPhone app as a mere entry point.

  • by SavingFace,

    SavingFace SavingFace Nov 11, 2015 3:23 PM in response to hyperascaldad
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    Nov 11, 2015 3:23 PM in response to hyperascaldad

    Found a workaround, take the "selfie" in a third party app (such as snapchat) and it doesn't register as a selfie.

     

     

    As we say in Ireland, it was very "shneaky" of Apple. The laughable idea that it is for ease of use. It's restrictive.

     

    All they need to do is implement a double tap system whereby pics taken that you double tap the image are sorted into an important folder.

  • by danamarlane,

    danamarlane danamarlane Nov 18, 2015 3:41 PM in response to hyperascaldad
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    Nov 18, 2015 3:41 PM in response to hyperascaldad

    I am so sick of this stuff and it just keeps getting worse. Apple needs to get a life. Find something to do other than fix things that aren't broken.

  • by BobSnow,

    BobSnow BobSnow Nov 19, 2015 3:16 AM in response to hyperascaldad
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    Nov 19, 2015 3:16 AM in response to hyperascaldad

    I think I figured out why all of my old photos taken with an Apple Quick Take 200 are appearing in the selfies folder.  It appears to be the image resolution of 640 x 480 and camera name.  As an experiment, I exported one original and then deleted it in Photos.  I opened it in Pixelmator and changed the canvas size to 642 x 482, creating a one pixel white border and then saved it as a jpeg.  When I imported it back into Photos, it was not put in the selfies folder, but still retained the EXIF information about the date, new image resolution and the camera name Apple QT-200.  My guess is that the name of the camera needs to have Apple in it and the resolution has to be one that was used on the front facing camera of an iPhone.  For example, iPhone 4 had a 640 x 480 resolution front facing camera. 

     

    Out of approximately 10,000 photos I have only two actual selfies and they are 960 x 1280 and were taken with an iPhone 6 which comes up as Apple iPhone 6, with a second line saying they were taken with the front facing camera.  I also found an image taken with the the back facing camera on an iPhone 5 that was reduced in size to 640 x 480 before being imported in to Photos.  It is not a selfie and was not taken with the front facing camera, but appears automatically in the selfies folder, probably due to the resolution and the word Apple in the camera name.


    I now have the option of exporting all of my QT-200 photos, creating a one pixel border around each of them and importing them back into Photos to keep them out of the selfies folder while still retaining the date and camera name in the EXIF info.  Hope this sheds some light on the issue.

  • by Cheaperrooter,

    Cheaperrooter Cheaperrooter Nov 22, 2015 7:34 PM in response to BobSnow
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    Nov 22, 2015 7:34 PM in response to BobSnow

    Really Ieonie?  You mean a special folder called selfie's, makes it easier to locate and delete selfie's?   Wow, that is an upside! How did you ever come up with that conclusion for that folder? Thanks for that eye-opening, life shattering insite. That's so good to know, because I tell you, at least once daily I am always a little perplexed in trying to locate that specific selfie that I want to send to somebody or that needs to be deleted. Having a selfie folder is so wonderful and I'm so glad that Apple took the thought process away from us entirely as functioning human beings, and that some 27-year-old techie decided what folders are best for me to have in my own camera roll.

     

    Foolish of me though, I guess I should just get up to speed, and start taking so many selfie's of myself, I would actually need a special folder to deal with all of those images to share with others.  What a great idea of Apple. Now, if only they could come up with some kind of a way to deal with all of those screenshots...

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Nov 23, 2015 2:43 AM in response to Cheaperrooter
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    Nov 23, 2015 2:43 AM in response to Cheaperrooter

    We are talking at cross purposes  here.  I have not a single selfie in my photo libraries, but plenty of photos taken with the iPhone front camera.

     

    My biggest problem with Photos on iOS is not a specific predefined album like "Selfies" but that Photos iOS does not allow to define custom smart albums at all. As long as there is no possibility at all to define smart albums like it has been possible in iPhoto iOS, we have to do with predefined smart albums provided by Apple to find certain types of photos.  So Apple keeps adding to the list of predefined albums - videos, panoramas, selfies. The ridiculously named  "Selfie" album is the only album that collects photos taken with the front camera.

    In photos on the Mac it is unnecessary, since the Photos.app on the Mac allows to create smart albums, and there I can track down front camera photos by searching for "Lens is iPhone 5s front camera ....."

  • by PTE_Joker,

    PTE_Joker PTE_Joker Dec 14, 2015 10:24 PM in response to léonie
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    Dec 14, 2015 10:24 PM in response to léonie

    Hi I personally think forcing albums on people like selfie and Faces are pointless, at least make it optional.

     

    I may have missed this but I have photos in my selfie and Faces album but my camera roll is empty.  I tried to delete them but option disappears when i select them.  No they are not synced in my photos.  When I do it adds 500 or so.  Uncheck and we go back to a select few.

     

    Any one experience this, have a fix maybe?

     

    Pretty disappointed with this new Photos.  Just screwed up everything I had for the last few years.  :-(

  • by chromatic26,

    chromatic26 chromatic26 Apr 12, 2016 4:25 PM in response to hyperascaldad
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    Apr 12, 2016 4:25 PM in response to hyperascaldad

    I am aggravated that the photos take up double the memory on our phones as well. I tried deleting one from my selfie album but it also deleted it from the camera roll. So we are forced to save two copies

    of a photo, or delete both. I will click on the link someone provides to give Apple my feedback.

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN Apr 12, 2016 7:34 PM in response to chromatic26
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    Apr 12, 2016 7:34 PM in response to chromatic26

    chromatic26 wrote:

     

    I am aggravated that the photos take up double the memory on our phones as well. I tried deleting one from my selfie album but it also deleted it from the camera roll. So we are forced to save two copies

    of a photo, or delete both. I will click on the link someone provides to give Apple my feedback.

    Not at all - albums are not copies - just a different view of exactly the same photos - the photo exists once and can be viewed  from different places - no duplicates

     

    LN

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Apr 16, 2016 9:09 AM in response to chromatic26
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    Apr 16, 2016 9:09 AM in response to chromatic26

    Albums are like Playlists in iTunes. The photos in an album are only pointers to the original file and take up no extra disk space. 

  • by Paintbeanie,

    Paintbeanie Paintbeanie May 26, 2016 12:09 AM in response to hyperascaldad
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    May 26, 2016 12:09 AM in response to hyperascaldad

    Another possible solution fir the selfie folder: text the pictures to yourself (I would imagine emailing them to yourself would work too but I have not tried it).  Then save them again.  Once you delete the originals the selfies folder will be gone and you will still have your pictures (with very little time or work)

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