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seymoria

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Hi everyone.
I have a question for your advice.

When we create albums and add photos to them, these photos keep residing also in the common pictures folder.
So in the common pictures folder, how can we know which photos have been assigned to albums and which ones are not assigned to any albums yet?

Thanks for tips.
 
When we create albums and add photos to them, these photos keep residing also in the common pictures folder.
So in the common pictures folder, how can we know which photos have been assigned to albums and which ones are not assigned to any albums yet?
What exactly are you referring to?
 
There's no easy way. If you use iCloud and have a Macbook you could create a smart album which filters out every photo not in an album (although there's a bug in this*) but on the phone or ipad I don't know any way to do that.

* If you add a photo to an album then delete that album, the smart album isn't smart enough to work that out and refuses the list the photos. Of course, if your photos are still in other albums then that's correct, but in my tests the photo was just in the one album until I deleted it.
 
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What exactly are you referring to?

By common pictures folder I mean the place where iOS saves all the pictures.
By albums I mean user created picture folders.
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There's no easy way. If you use iCloud and have a Macbook you could create a smart album which filters out every photo not in an album (although there's a bug in this*) but on the phone or ipad I don't know any way to do that.

* If you add a photo to an album then delete that album, the smart album isn't smart enough to work that out and refuses the list the photos. Of course, if your photos are still in other albums then that's correct, but in my tests the photo was just in the one album until I deleted it.

I don't have a Mac, just an iPad.
Maybe there is some app that can help?
 
Unfortunately, I don't think there is. I did a quick search and couldn't find one. I assume the Photos app doesn't provide hooks into its database to allow a third-party app to do this.
 
I am wondering how do millions of people using iOS devices manage their pictures.

If you have like 10,000+ pictures lumped together in your Picture Folder, downloaded over a course of time, and then one day you spend the whole weekend arranging them into subject wise albums.

And after a month you see that you have downloaded 1000 more pics and need to add the new pics to your albums.

So how in the world can you know which pics are the new ones in the Picture Folder?

Obviously it's not possible to sift through 10,000+ pics in the Picture Folder and people must be using some method to arrange the pics.

Do you get my point? I am just asking how do people actually go about it?

Thank you.
 
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Just found this app:

I tested it, and created a smart album that lists all photos not in an album. It's just what you're looking for!
 
I would guess that people who have 10000 photos don't manage them on a mobile phone.

I have an iPad with 1 TB memory. That's enough to store all my pictures for years to come.
But let me know if you have better options in mind. Like a digital photo frame? Or a plain old desktop?
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Just found this app:

I tested it, and created a smart album that lists all photos not in an album. It's just what you're looking for!

Thanks very much for your help.
This seems to be the thing I wanted!
That's crazily beautiful on target. 👍👍
 
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