iPhone 11 Switched from Android but miss a few things

[O-O]

Hey all, I recently switched from a Note 8 to an iPhone 11. The iPhone is great and I like it but there are a few things about Android that I miss.

One thing that I’m really hoping someone can help with - in the gallery app on Android I can create different folders. Once I move a photo from the main camera folder to a different folder that I have created the photo will no longer show in the main camera folder and will be in only the folder I moved it to. On the iPhone all 1860 phots stay in my main Camera Roll even if I move some photos to other folders. This makes it incredibly difficult to find any picture that isn’t located in another folder.

Is there a gallery app available for the iPhone that will operate like the Android version and no longer have the photo in the Camera Roll album once it’s moved to another folder?

 

[Rok73]

You have all photos and you have the albums tab. I don’t see the issue? You can also go by date, search for locations etc.

 

[C DM]

Hey all, I recently switched from a Note 8 to an iPhone 11. The iPhone is great and I like it but there are a few things about Android that I miss.

One thing that I’m really hoping someone can help with - in the gallery app on Android I can create different folders. Once I move a photo from the main camera folder to a different folder that I have created the photo will no longer show in the main camera folder and will be in only the folder I moved it to. On the iPhone all 1860 phots stay in my main Camera Roll even if I move some photos to other folders. This makes it incredibly difficult to find any picture that isn’t located in another folder.

Is there a gallery app available for the iPhone that will operate like the Android version and no longer have the photo in the Camera Roll album once it’s moved to another folder?

Albums in iOS are treated more like labels rather than actual folders.

 

[zorinlynx]

This is one of the reasons I wish the iOS version of Photos supported Smart Albums.

On my Mac I have Smart Albums for a few things that really help me organize my library. For example, I have one called "Not in any Album" that shows me photos that aren't in albums. This Smart Album would solve your problem, but you said you're using an iPhone and for some ridiculous reason Smart Albums don't work in iOS (not even iOS 14) even though they sync through iCloud Photo Library. They're just not visible at all.

Albums in iOS are treated more like labels rather than actual folders.

This is an interesting way to think of it. Frankly I prefer it this way; I can have albums for each vacation I take, and a "Cool Weather" album, and have photos of cool weather from my vacations in both places without duplicating photos.

This can be confusing and disorienting for someone used to it being more like a physical photo album where you can only put the physical photo in one location without making a copy.

 

[now i see it]

Albums in the iOS photos app hold shortcuts or aliases to the original photos. The Camera Roll is the depository for all photos and videos.
Yes it's a horrible way to organize them.

If keeping track of images is important, create new albums frequently and keep them up to date with all new images. Then it'll be easy to find what you're looking for.
Otherwise you're screwed if you've got a lot of images piled just in the camera roll.

 

[murad_fourth]

You can actually create a new album in Photos App.

Click on “+” icon and then enter a name for your new album.

Then you can add your photos to the new album.

Thank me later. 😊

 

[timeconsumer]

Hey all, I recently switched from a Note 8 to an iPhone 11. The iPhone is great and I like it but there are a few things about Android that I miss.

One thing that I’m really hoping someone can help with - in the gallery app on Android I can create different folders. Once I move a photo from the main camera folder to a different folder that I have created the photo will no longer show in the main camera folder and will be in only the folder I moved it to. On the iPhone all 1860 phots stay in my main Camera Roll even if I move some photos to other folders. This makes it incredibly difficult to find any picture that isn’t located in another folder.

Is there a gallery app available for the iPhone that will operate like the Android version and no longer have the photo in the Camera Roll album once it’s moved to another folder?

Check out Slidebox, it works great for this. They'll still show up in your camera roll but Slidebox will show you which of your photos are unsorted so you can apply a "label" to them.

‎Slidebox - Photo Manager

‎Organize your photos with quick & simple gestures! - Delete: Trash unwanted photos with a swipe of a finger - Organize: Sort photos into albums with a single tap - Compare: Swipe similar photos back and forth to compare - Favorite: Mark special photos as your favorites Slidebox interacts...

apps.apple.com

 

[C DM]

You can actually create a new album in Photos App.

Click on “+” icon and then enter a name for your new album.

Then you can add your photos to the new album.

Thank me later. 😊

Seems like the OP is doing that already and was jus wondering why the photos in albums were still part of the main camera roll.

 

[murad_fourth]

Seems like the OP is doing that already and was jus wondering why the photos in albums were still part of the main camera roll.

Hmm then the OP actually wants her/his iPhone to label each photo she/he takes automatically to the albums she/he created.

I think, iPhone itself does not have an option to do this. But the OP can give Slidebox a try as @timeconsumer has suggested.

 

[O-O]

Check out Slidebox, it works great for this. They'll still show up in your camera roll but Slidebox will show you which of your photos are unsorted so you can apply a "label" to them.

‎Slidebox - Photo Manager

‎Organize your photos with quick & simple gestures! - Delete: Trash unwanted photos with a swipe of a finger - Organize: Sort photos into albums with a single tap - Compare: Swipe similar photos back and forth to compare - Favorite: Mark special photos as your favorites Slidebox interacts...

apps.apple.com

Thanks, I will check into this.

 

[O-O]

Seems like the OP is doing that already and was jus wondering why the photos in albums were still part of the main camera roll.

This right here.

I click the photos icon, then on the bottom I can click albums, and then I have a recents folder and I can and have created other folders. The annoying part is that I see absolutely zero benefit to after moving a photo from the recents folder to a folder that I created is that the photo remains in the recents folder. It would be great if the photo existed only one place, the place where I put it. Then as I take photos I want to keep forever I can move them from the recents folder to their forever folder while all that remains in the recents folder is well... recents if that makes any sense? Why would ecents folder retain every picture I ever took from the beginning of time and never allow it to be moved from it to somewhere else? It’s a mind boggling simple concept really.

My normal MO is to have about 10 various folders to put photos of various things into. Some folders have pics of kids, some have pics of various hobbies, some have pics of serial numbers, model numbers, and random photos of our house and things in our house for insurance purposes. Some are pictures of vehicles and some of camping trips.

I don’t need to ever see any of the pics I took for insurance purposes. In Android I could move these all to a separate folder and then hide that entire folder.

So now I will need to scroll through 1,861 photos 9 times to put them into different albums, which means scrolling 1861 x 9 equaling 16,749 photos. If they disappeared from the recents folder then that task would be much easier.

The photos I have have all been transferred to my iPhone from the Android, another iPhone, and other various action cams. There is no standard photo labeling system so everything is now nothing more than a jumbled mess.

Don’t take this as a rant and hate on iPhone post because Apple does many awesome things with their phones and OS, but the recents folder keeping photos forever, even when moved to another album I create, makes absolutely no sense to me.

 

[O-O]

I actually like my new iPhone so much that I paid off my wife’s S10 early and we ordered her a new iPhone 11 as well and an iPad Pro 12.9 2020 to go along with our iPad Pro 9.7 So I’m not here to complain about our iStuff we have, just looking for a photo app that works more like what I’ve used for many years

 

[now i see it]

Actually the Camera Roll does serve one organizing function. It displays all images by date. Apple likes to call one method of date organization "Moments" but I'm with you, the handling of photos on iOS sucks. It always has and likely always will (13 years have gone by and it's the same old story).

 

[wicked271]

This is the only thing I don't like with the Photos app. I've been an iPhone user since the 4s and have been waiting for an ios update that will move the photos to the albums instead of staying in the camera roll but so far, nothing. I wish they would just give the user an option for this. Will definitely check out the Slidebox app. Thanks for the recommendation @timeconsumer

 

[eyoungren]

Hey all, I recently switched from a Note 8 to an iPhone 11. The iPhone is great and I like it but there are a few things about Android that I miss.

One thing that I’m really hoping someone can help with - in the gallery app on Android I can create different folders. Once I move a photo from the main camera folder to a different folder that I have created the photo will no longer show in the main camera folder and will be in only the folder I moved it to. On the iPhone all 1860 phots stay in my main Camera Roll even if I move some photos to other folders. This makes it incredibly difficult to find any picture that isn’t located in another folder.

Is there a gallery app available for the iPhone that will operate like the Android version and no longer have the photo in the Camera Roll album once it’s moved to another folder?

Yeah, OP it's not possible stock.

I don't think jailbreaking would even help you now either. There used to be a JB tweak called PhotoAlbums+ (I have it on my 6s+) but it hasn't been updated since iOS 9. I've seen no other JB tweak since then that do the same thing.

It's unfortunate, but this is how Apple works this. The 'Album' is simply a series of aliases to the photos in the main camera roll.

 

[EM2013]

Actually the Camera Roll does serve one organizing function. It displays all images by date. Apple likes to call one method of date organization "Moments" but I'm with you, the handling of photos on iOS sucks. It always has and likely always will (13 years have gone by and it's the same old story).

Hard to believe it’s been that way forever. Maybe one day?

I remember having an iPod touch back in my teens & thinking how silly it was that if you delete a photo from the camera roll, it would delete from the album.