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Q: How can I hide the all photos Album?

In the Albums section of Photos on the Mac or iPhone, is it possible to either hide and or delete/ remove the album.

If this is not possible would it be possible to remove all those photos or does that affect ALL photos as the album implies? :-(

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2), OS X (10.10.3)

Posted on Jul 14, 2016 3:57 PM

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Q: How can I hide the all photos Album?

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  • by Rysz,

    Rysz Rysz Jul 14, 2016 9:26 PM in response to hauntvictim
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    Jul 14, 2016 9:26 PM in response to hauntvictim

    The Photos and All Photos albums are just two different ways of viewing your Photos Library. The images seen there are NOT duplicates. Deleting images from them would remove them from your library. You also can't delete these albums. They come as part of the app.

     

    "All Photos" special album is sorted by the date the images were added to your library.

    "Photos" special album is sorted based on the image creation time stamp and automatically organized based on date and location into Moments, Collections and Years.

  • by appreciate,

    appreciate Jul 14, 2016 9:58 PM in response to hauntvictim
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    Jul 14, 2016 9:58 PM in response to hauntvictim
  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN Jul 14, 2016 10:14 PM in response to appreciate
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    Jul 14, 2016 10:14 PM in response to appreciate

    appreciate wrote:

     

    An apple article is there : Hide photos on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac - Apple Support

     

    Ok

     

    but that has NO EFFECT at all on the all Photos album in Photos for the Mac - it only affects the Photos (years/Collections/Moments) view

     

    It is not possible to remove or hide the All Photos album (you can hide all albums with the sidebar shown hover over "Albums" adn then move right and click hide)

     

    LN

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jul 15, 2016 12:35 AM in response to appreciate
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    Jul 15, 2016 12:35 AM in response to appreciate

    Adding to Larry's reply- hiding photos has the additional drawback, that the photos will no longer show the location data in the albums. They do not show a location name or a map, and you cannot search for them by the places name. They are crippled, but will still show in all albums.

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jul 15, 2016 12:43 AM in response to hauntvictim
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    Jul 15, 2016 12:43 AM in response to hauntvictim

    On your iPhone you will see the Camera Roll Album and My Photo Stream instead of All Photos, if you disable iCloud Photo Library. Then the Camera Roll album will show you the photos in. Your library and My Photo Stream will be separate. With iCloud Photo Library enabled both items are combined into one album "All Photos".