How to move Photos Out of Camera Roll?

I totally understand what you are saying. It's so frustrating! I recently switched to iPhone from Samsung. With the Samsung phone, you could do exactly what you are asking. Move photos from your camera roll, into an album, and the photos would remove themselves from the camera roll. I miss that!!!

Thank you for your answer. But really we are not looking for cloud storage, what we are asking here is how to organize photos within your phone by moving them out of the camera roll but these photos still remain in the phone storage.

I have 20,000 photos on my iPad and I need to get them into folders on my iPad and out of camera roll. I can not simply sync or move them to the computer. I absolutely hate going through iTunes and besides that's not helpful. I can't edit them once I do that, I can't add to the folder, or delete from the folder without resyncing. It's a really bad system. The suggestions being given here are clearly by people who can't comprehend what we (me and the other 2 people I see commenting here) are trying to do. Several other people I have asked on Facebook who are Apple lovers also can't understand it, which is very frustrating and just odd.

I am about to download the app that you recommended. I have searched in the past for one, and none did what they said they would do. I'm keeping my fingers crossed! Thx.

Yes, but in Gmail, when you label, it doesn't show up any more in the "inbox" it appears only under the label you want it. On the iOS , you have the photos appear in the All Photos, and in the Album you assigned it to... what's the point of this??? Why do I need to SEE the photos in both "places"???? I don't care if they "are" in the same place fisically, I care about the fact that I am unable to manage 10,000 photos like this.

Imagine that I have only 2 albums, each with 5,000 photos, how in the name of God will I know which 5,000 photos I have assigned to which album... obviously I have to review all 5,000 photos in an album to know which is and which isn't !!! And even like this I would't be able to remember 5,000 photos just on the fly. It is absolutely counterintuitive to do this! Those devices are supposed to give us the liberty to do this, not take it from us!

It's like giving you a real album with 10,000 photos, and telling you that you can't move the photos, they have always to stay there like they are. And on that day that you want to find a photo, you have to go over all those 10,000 photos!!!

And no, I don't want my photos ordered by date!

iOS is supposed to give us by all means both options so we can chose how we want to do it. It's my device, those are my photos!

It's not "theyPhone" it's "iPhone"

True it is a feature of the iPhone. To compare to a full blown computer is not the right path though unless all you have ever used is an iPhone. For those of us that have used other phones and see different functionality we see that the iPhone is lacking in many areas. The iPhone does have its perks but from a techy point of view the iPhone is behind and unless something changes I can see the iPhone slowly to lose market share. Basically what I saying is that the Samsung note 5 allowed me to move my pictures and not create shortcuts. This allowed for stronger organization of pictures

thanks for bringing up this question. I am new to iOS and this certainly is one feature which made my decision to jump to iphone regrettable. I am used to organizing my photos but now I am having a headace doing so with the iOS. I hope they reconsider this problem and incorporate it to their succeeding updates. Seriously, I can't be that a task as simple as this was not even considered when they made this phone. A really big headache. As my question was satisfied in this forum alone, I don't think I will check anymore with other because apparently this is a software deficiency that Apple should look into. I will just wait until then. What a messy camera roll I have.

If Apple cannot provide different albums for pics from different apps, then atleast Apple should create a album where only camera pics gets stored. Camera roll album can still have all the mixture of pics from all the apps(including camera)

This feature should not be difficult. Even Basic phones have this.

I have 22 phones under my business plan. I don’t even keep track of the devices. We intensively use screenshots and photos to document progress/quality on projects. Unless iOS gives me better control over organizing photo collections I will be spending $10,000 or more on Android hardware come February.

“iOS isn’t supposed to work like Android, you shouldn’t expect it to.”

Apple products are more expensive. The iPhone8/X only increases the price margin between Android and Apple products further. I expect, at the very least, a comparable amount of flexibility and customization in such an increasingly vital area for businesses.

You can not move them out of the camera roll and move them into albums. It doesn't work that way. The albums that you create for organization contain pointers to the photos and if you were able to move them out of the camera roll, they would disappear from the albums.

You could import all of the photos to your computer, delete the photos from the phone, create albums on the computer, sync the photos organized into albums back to the device. But you can not do all that you want to do on the phone itself.

Import photos and videos from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

I think being a programmer makes me have a different perspective on this. If you go to the Finder app on your laptop, the sidebar has a "Pictures" option, which shows all of the pictures on your computer. This is essentially the same as the Camera Roll on your phone. You can move a photo to any folder you want in your computer, but it will always show up there.

The problem is that they are handling photos on our phones the opposite of how they do it on our computers. When you click "Pictures" on your laptop, it's essentially a search and the results are symlinks (or something similar) to every photo on the computer. The Camera Roll is literally just a single folder with every photo file, which you can make symlinks out of (by putting it into an album, for example).

What I would suggest to Apple instead is to make the Camera Roll the same as the "Pictures" option in Finder, which is just a search for all of your photos, and symlinks to the pictures. Make a different default folder/album that the pictures go into called "Recents" that would be the same as the Downloads folder we have on our computers. Viewing a photo in the Camera Roll would show you what album it's located in. If you delete a photo from the camera roll, it would still delete the file, like how it currently is.

This makes the most sense to me at least.

As for dealing with the problem now, the way I've got around knowing if I moved a photo to an album or not is by favoriting it. I didn't use the favorite option anyway, so it made the most sense to me.

Is there any app that can allow this?

Unfortunately no. You already asked all of these questions and more on your other thread and you saw what happened to it. I know that this is not the answer you want to hear but there is no way on an iPhone to do what you want. The iOS software, at least 9.3.2, is not capable of doing what you described on your other thread or on this one. The best you can do is sort your pictures with a computer like Demo suggested. iOS is nowhere as capable.

You received several answers from experienced users on the other thread, none to your liking, and I know that you will not like mine. If I or others could help you do what you want we would gladly do so. We are just users like you who volunteer our time to help others.

If you want, you can provide feedback to Apple here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

Why not simply sync the photos from your iPhone to your computer and have them deleted from the camera roll automatically? All in 1 step.

Then they sync back to the iPhone using iTunes.

Well I know this possibility, however it has the limitation that I can't organize these iTunes-to-iPhone synced photos/albums on my iPhone anymore 😕 So once I do this sync, I can only manage them on the computer, which is not what I need. I prefer that my iPhone is the place where I manage the photos and use the computer just as a backup. I have more time to organize my photos when I'm on the go than when I'm at home before my computer.

I could go back and forth with you on this for days. I did say that I take a different approach on such matters. I should have said, "in my opinion". That may have been a better way of stating this.

If you think that the phone is lacking photo organizational functionality, let Apple know about it.

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

BTW, everything that I told about photos on the phone is correct, it might not be helpful to you, but it is correct.