How to move Photos Out of Camera Roll?

There are a number of apps that will archive your photos in cloud storage and allow you to delete them from the phone, yet still preserve them to view when you want to. I use two: upthere.com, and Google Photos. But there are plenty of others: Shutterfly, box.com, dropbox.com, etc.

Upthere will store all of your data; photos, videos, music, documents and allow you to organize and share them as desired.

Google photos will actually organize them for you, based on when and where they were taken; it will also group using facial recognition, create panoramas when you take adjacent images, show you albums of what you shot on the current date in the past, and many other neat organizing features.

Logixor wrote:

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!

I can't imagine keeping 10,000 pictures on my phone or thinking it made sense to that that as my prime repository for my photos. It's a disaster waiting to happen. Personally, I move almost none of my photos into albums. I use the iPhone's search to get pretty close to finding what I need. I don't understand way, if albums are the way you chose to organize photos, you'd use ones so huge that you couldn't look through them quickly. But, mostly, I don't really care how you chose to organize your photos. It's a highly personal decision. I can't change your mind and none of us here can change the way the iPhone works. Submit your feedback to Apple. Use a different app. Buy a different kind of phone.

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

Apple will continue to do what they have always done, give you the device they think you should have.

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.

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.

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.

Hi, I know this is an old thread but while I was searching for a solution to the same problem I stumbled upon it. What I ended up doing was creating a private flckr account...the app makes it very easy to upload photos and create new albums. It’s not a GREAT solution, but allows me to keep photos I use for work in an easily accessible place that IS NOT my camera roll.

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.

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.

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.

You're welcome.

Submit your feedback to Apple here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

You may think computers, be they desktop or notebook, are becoming extinct. However, it's pretty clear that Apple doesn't agree.

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