Q: How to move Photos Out of Camera Roll?
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Jul 13, 2016 11:29 AMby Demo,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.
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Jul 13, 2016 11:41 AMby Amsena,Okey, but I still need to move them out. Can it be done?
Its impossible to organize my photo collection if I can't move them out. Its like an email inbox that never gets cleared. I want to have all my photos organized in folders. Furthermore, if they dont move, I am not sure if that picture was actually sorted into an album or not.
I also did a project that took me about 6 months, with constant photo taking to record the process. I have all these photos scattered in my Camara Roll as they were all took in different dates. How can I make sure I got them all into an album if they dont move out of my Camara Roll?
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Jul 13, 2016 11:46 AMby Demo,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
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Jul 13, 2016 12:12 PMby Amsena,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?
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Jul 13, 2016 12:20 PMby IdrisSeabright,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.
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Jul 13, 2016 12:24 PMby Demo,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.
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Jul 13, 2016 12:33 PMby Amsena,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?
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Jul 13, 2016 12:45 PMby Demo,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.
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Jul 13, 2016 12:45 PMby elcpu,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
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Jul 13, 2016 1:14 PMby Amsena,The other thread answers were no where similar to these. They redirected me to articles on how to ask proper questions, etc. As if i was a 5 year old.
It was not only that I didnt like there answers, but they were not trying to help me. You guys are.
Quick google search has given me some results, Uitful is an app that claims to do this.
PD: This is not a matter of capability, the task I request is pretty simple, and to be honest, should have been the way to go from the start. 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.
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Jul 13, 2016 1:14 PMby elcpu,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…
