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richxps

macrumors 68000
Original poster
Jun 9, 2008
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380
Curious how many photos and albumns do you keep on your iphone ? I've been keeping all my photos from my Mac on my phone around 9k in different albumns I'm now thinking what's the point and just keep favorites. I figure in an keep all my photos on my Mac and ipad since they are normally home.how do you all manage your photos and albums?
 

paulbennett95

macrumors 6502a
Aug 30, 2012
581
0
Long Island, NY
I keep around 10 photos at most in Camera Roll, once it goes over that, I import them to DropBox and delete the originals.

No need to have photos taking up space, especially when most of them go untouched for weeks or months.
 

ItsWelshy

macrumors regular
Jul 31, 2012
215
0
I keep around 10 photos at most in Camera Roll, once it goes over that, I import them to DropBox and delete the originals.

No need to have photos taking up space, especially when most of them go untouched for weeks or months.

You're one smart cookie.
 

Menel

Suspended
Aug 4, 2011
6,351
1,356
About 10-15. + Photostream.

I delete, or sort, process, and upload before too long.
 

BJMRamage

macrumors 68030
Oct 2, 2007
2,713
1,233
a little over 2,000 images as of this morning.

Yeah, I keep photos on there after importing. weird, i know.
 

decafjava

macrumors 603
Feb 7, 2011
5,148
7,230
Geneva
290 currently. I import occasionally, I should look at photostream or better dropbox for syncing though...
 

zorinlynx

macrumors G3
May 31, 2007
8,165
17,651
Florida, USA
From anywhere between a couple weeks to a few months' worth, depending on when I get my lazy butt around to launching Aperture and transferring everything off.

Memorable photos get synced back to the phone via iTunes photo syncing, but they take up less space this way since Aperture resizes them to iPhone size.

I have a 64GB iPhone so space is not a concern, and it backs up regularly to both iCloud and my computer.
 

aDRock1154

macrumors 65816
Nov 15, 2011
1,396
9
Ohio
Roughly 4,000. I keep all of my pictures of my daughter with me at all times. I need to start making more smart albums in iPhoto to break them up (1-3 months, 3-6, 9-12, etc.)
 

adam044

macrumors 65816
Jan 24, 2012
1,095
10
Boston
However many I take between new iPhones. Only at 229 right now. When I upgrade I set up as new and start a new roll. I import them to iPhone but still keep them on my phone not sure why
 

tardman91

macrumors 65816
Oct 21, 2009
1,136
344
Tampa Area, FL
I keep my iPhoto library synced to my iPhone so I have a little over 3,000. It's starting to take a huge chunk of space though so I'm thinking I might only sync select albums. I don't really want to pony up for a larger capacity iPhone.
 

SONiC5

macrumors regular
Sep 21, 2012
186
2
U.S.
4,400 at the moment. On a 16GB phone.

I topped 5,000 last summer/fall, deleted about 1,500 (in addition to apps and music) in order to update to iOS 6, and here I am again...
 

srsub3

macrumors 6502
Mar 10, 2013
418
275
NYC
actually only the wallpaper and some i got through wattsapp. after every trip I import them in iPhoto and delete them
 

Lostanddamned

macrumors 6502a
May 3, 2009
677
357
London, UK
1635 - every photo I have taken with a digital camera or phone and deemed worthy of keeping, except two albums taken with an ex girlfriend.

I keep my camera roll nice and empty and at some point soon intend to digitise every one of my negatives, bringing that number up significantly, probably to around 3k.

I have a 64gb iPhone though, so its little bother
 
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