I want to move an album into a folder. I can't figure out how to do that?
Easy in macOS, drag and drop.
Also where do I find Photos iOS help. I only found a few basic videos on YouTube via Apple support.
I'm a long time Mac an iPhone user, but haven't tried to do serious Photos work on iOS.
iPad Pro Wi-Fi, iOS 11.3.1, 10.8"
It is not possible to create folders on the iPad, only albums, see: https://help.apple.com/ipad/11/#/iPad99c6ec9ehttps://help.apple.com/ipad/11/#/iPad99c6ec9e
If you create folders in Photos for Mac and sync them the Photos Library with iCloud Photos Library to the iPad, you will seethe folders.
The Help for Photos in in the iPad User Guide: https://help.apple.com/ipad/11/#/iPad49cae5dd
On the Start Page click "Table of Contents", then click "Apps" in the sidebar and open the section for Photos.
It is not possible to create folders on the iPad, only albums, see: https://help.apple.com/ipad/11/#/iPad99c6ec9ehttps://help.apple.com/ipad/11/#/iPad99c6ec9e
If you create folders in Photos for Mac and sync them the Photos Library with iCloud Photos Library to the iPad, you will seethe folders.
The Help for Photos in in the iPad User Guide: https://help.apple.com/ipad/11/#/iPad49cae5dd
On the Start Page click "Table of Contents", then click "Apps" in the sidebar and open the section for Photos.
And iOS Photos and iCloud sharing don't support Titles/Captions—I must be old fashioned but I want to label photos. Oh well, must look elsewhere.
iPhoto on the iPad supported all that. That was, why I purchased my iPad. It was great. I used iPhoto on our field trips to document the sites where we made the experiments. I could immediately add titles to the photos and keywords. iPhoto allowed brushed adjustments and journals with added text. It was a perfect companion to work with the photos directly on the site. This is no longer possible. I still have iPhoto installed on the iPad for sentimental reasons, but it does no longer run. The upgrade to iOS 8 made it incompatible. If it were possible, I would downgrade to back to iOS 7. I am still a bit angry at Apple that they did not include a warning in to the iOS8 Release notes that the System upgrade to iOS 8 would kill the best photo editing app they ever released for iOS outright. On the Mac the iLife software kept working after the system upgrade, and I did not expect this on iOS without a warning. Photos iOS is still a poor substitute for iPhoto, because of the lack of support for metadata and brushed adjustments. The photo editing extensions do not yet help.
My solution right now is to take a MacBook Pro with me, when I am on a photo shooting trip. I use the iPad now mainly as an expensive book reader or to share the cellular connection with the Mac. I have no other use for it any longer, since I have always a portable Mac with me.
Thank you.
I know it's a stretch, but the manual could point out related things that can be done via macOS. I was hoping iPad photos was more useful as I was thinking of using an iPad on a long trip. And iOS Photos and iCloud sharing don't support Titles/Captions—I must be old fashioned but I want to label photos. Oh well, must look elsewhere.
Hopefully Apple's following you since you're so active here.
I've just moved to Photos since High Sierra. Aperture was getting too problematic. I'm looking at SmugMug, but that would definitely be more complex. I've had my own site, but Gallery3 was put to pasture about three years ago. The commercial apps were able to keep up better.
I have also moved to Photos. And hope it will be improved.
I am sticking with Apple software because of the many Apple devices I own, that need to be compatible with each other and kept in sync.
On the Mac Photos has been improved, and I sincerely hope that photos on iOS devices will again become a tool for managing a photo library too, and not just a tool for sharing image files.
An image file without metadata will pretty soon become a waste of storage, if we cannot add caption, titles, keywords and display them with the photo. The developer team thinks to believe, that we will know what a photo is about by simply looking at it and refuses to clutter up the display with text.
On iOS devices we have currently only two options to assign a meaning to it - we can dd the photo in an album and we can write something into the faces labels. But there is no way to search for the albums a photo is in to find the name of the album. And using the faces names as keywords will break the automatic face recognition.
Organizing Photos albums on an iPad
