I have noticed that when I try to organize my image collection, and place images in different albums, they do not move out of my Camera Roll, but they are copied to the album selected. I want to move these photos, not copy them, how is this done?
Thanks
iPhone 6s Plus, iOS 9.2.1
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
Studmei wrote:
the Samsung /android photo library lets you move photos around freely. it makes no sense for iOS to be so limiting.
It makes no sense that iOS should work exactly like Android. If it did, what would be the point?
Submit your feedback to Apple. The link has already been provided.
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.
ProbablySwitchingToAndroid wrote:
I expect, at the very least, a comparable amount of flexibility and customization in such an increasingly vital area for businesses.
iPhones and Androids work differently in many ways. You should buy the tool that best meets your needs. No one in this thread has any vested interest in what you chose.
Best of luck.
They can not be moved out of the camera roll. When you create albums on an iOS device, you are not storing copies of the photos in the albums, but merely pointers or shortcuts to those photos from the camera roll. If you delete them from the camera roll, they will be deleted in your albums as well.
I thought about that, but the folders you sync are not editable. This means you cannont add or remove any photo to these synced folders. And so my phone becomes a mess. Because I will have double folders for everything. For example: I want to put all 2016 photos in a folder. But 2016 isnt over yet. I import, organize, and sync. Perfect my phone is organized. I then start taking new photos. To add this pictures to the folder I need to rescyn, every time I take a new photo?!
Or for screenshots. IOS automatically generates an album for screenshots. So I import the screenshots and put them in a folder named "Synced Screenshots". Now I take a new screenshot. IOS will create a new album named "screenshots"
How can I avoid this?
I disagree. Phones, Tablets, and every sort of mobile device work everyday more as desktop pcs. In fact these are getting extinct. Photos should not be more easily managed on the PC than on the phone. What if Steve Jobs would have thought so? The ipod could have never been created. Now its equally easy to mange music in the phone or in the PC. Sure. you can do much more in the PC, but the core features are in both platforms.
In fact most apps are developed trying to make phones work more and more as PCs.
Organizing photos is not a complex task, and there is not need for a "full blown computer".
Is there any app that can allow this?
You're welcome.
Submit your feedback to Apple here:
You may think computers, be they desktop or notebook, are becoming extinct. However, it's pretty clear that Apple doesn't agree.
I reported your post to the moderators earlier today because it violated the Terms of Use. Your post was offensive to another user who was just trying to help you. The moderators agreed and your post went poof just like the thread you started on this same topic yesterday which is now gone. Read the ToU again. Also note that if you continue to do this the moderators may revoke your posting privileges. Apple Support Communities Use Agreement
abdulr264 wrote:
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.
Feel free to let Apple know what you would like to see:
It's my device, those are my photos!
It's not "theyPhone" it's "iPhone"
Not at all. iOS is not "supposed" to do anything specific at all. iOS does what its developer programs it to do.
if you wish to have that level of control, become a developer and create an app that suits your needs.
To all those who come here to read this conversation:
iOS is *NOT* open source and fully configurable by any and all.
If you feel there are gaps or shortcomings in iOS and its apps, tell Apple via the only they want feedback.
Feedback for Apple goes here >>> http://www.apple.com/feedback/
This community is not that place.
the Samsung /android photo library lets you move photos around freely. it makes no sense for iOS to be so limiting.
Amsena wrote:
Or for screenshots. IOS automatically generates an album for screenshots. So I import the screenshots and put them in a folder named "Synced Screenshots". Now I take a new screenshot. IOS will create a new album named "screenshots"
How can I avoid this?
You can't.
I realize that I take a very different approach to these types of situations than many others take, and I realize that the organizational functions on an iPhone are not ideal for many, but, this is still a phone that we are talking about, not a full blown computer. The features are what they are.
Amsena wrote:
Quick google search has given me some results, Uitful is an app that claims to do this.
Don't bet on it. https://www.quora.com/Now-that-the-iOS-Utiful-app-enabled-MOVING-photos-from-the -iPhone-Camera-Roll-into-folders-will-Ap…
Amsena wrote:
As I said repeatedly, if you imagine your Camera Roll as a mail Inbox, anyone, designer or not, would think that its ridiculous to no be able to move message out of the inbox folder and organized them in different folders.
I certainly do not think of my Camera Roll as an inbox. And, even if someone did, it doesn't follow that someone would agree with you. I know lots of people who are not fans of the whole "zero inbox" concept.
How to move Photos Out of Camera Roll?
