Do photos make it to your camera roll then?
Once they're on phone drive, it's just a matter of selecting what photos you want sent to your camera roll.
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Why is it so hard just to copy photos to an iPhone?
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Once they're on phone drive, it's just a matter of selecting what photos you want sent to your camera roll.
Well that's good. Are they then saved double (camera roll as well as phone drive) until you delete one or the other? I guess what I am really wondering is whether all these steps are worth it. Seems easier to just use iCloud, if your intention is only to save certain photos.
Copying a photo to Camera Roll creates a second copy of it. If you delete the Phone Drive copy, for example, the camera roll copy will still be there.
That's what I suspected. I suppose I would prefer iCloud over this. If only it saved directly....
Have you tried transfer? You can transfer from a Windows/ Mac system to iPhone/iPad or iPod. Very easy.
Yeah, I still prefer just syncing through iPhoto, but it's convenient when I'm taking pictures from someone else's computer.
Being a slave to iTunes is the worst thing about an iPhone. I *HATE* iTunes! I miss the ability to just drag and drop onto my Android. I connected it to my computer, it became a disk drive, copy away! So simple.
Try deleting photos from your iPhone that are not in your camera roll or photo stream. You can't! You must delete them on your computer, then sync with iTunes and only then will it be removed. It's ridiculous. Try moving a photo from your camera roll to one of your photo albums. I haven't been able to find any way to do this.
The iPhone is a very slick device and works well. But it is lacking in MANY areas and features that Apple could so easily implement.
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Are you talking doing this on the actual phone? If so...
1. Open camera roll
2. Tap the little icon that looks like a square with an arrow popping out of it (top right)
3. Select the photos you want (will see a little red check mark on the image)
4. Tap "add to"
5. Select your album.... or select "add to New Album" if you want to make a new album.
HTH
Okay, so it's a picture of my daughter and I want to move it from photo stream to my "kids" folder on my iPhone. Tell me how I do something so simple.
Thanks, but when I select Add To it only offers me "Add to New Album." It doesn't list my fifteen albums I have on the phone. Why??
That's something I hadn't considered. Good point.
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You should have an "add to existing album" button too.
Some good points in this thread
Just trying on iOS6 (might be the same on iOS5). Selected some pictures from the camera roll, hit Add to and only let me create a new album - So I did. Then again I selected some photos, hit Add to, and it gave the option of create new album or add to existing.
So, it seems you can add to existing albums that were created on the phone, not existing albums/events that were synced to the phone from iTunes/computer.
In general I'd say there is a lot of opportunity for improvement with Photos/iPhoto and syncing in both directions to iPhoto on the Mac.
Just trying on iOS6 (might be the same on iOS5). Selected some pictures from the camera roll, hit Add to and only let me create a new album - So I did. Then again I selected some photos, hit Add to, and it gave the option of create new album or add to existing.
So, it seems you can add to existing albums that were created on the phone, not existing albums/events that were synced to the phone from iTunes/computer.
In general I'd say there is a lot of opportunity for improvement with Photos/iPhoto and syncing in both directions to iPhoto on the Mac.
Same issue here when copy & pasting multiple photos into email. I often have to send out an email per photo.
Excellent discovery Profets! ... and proof that photo management on the iPhone SUCKS!! All of my photo albums are on my pc and synched via iTunes :-( I guess I can select them all, move them to a folder of the same name, then delete the original on my next iTunes sync.
Files Pro:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/files-pro-document-reader/id285578660?mt=8
or
Stash:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stash-private-photos-videos/id364575517?mt=8
Just like you wanted...open up iTunes (on any computer, not just yours) and you can copy photos into these apps in iTunes' "Apps" section.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/files-pro-document-reader/id285578660?mt=8
or
Stash:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stash-private-photos-videos/id364575517?mt=8
Just like you wanted...open up iTunes (on any computer, not just yours) and you can copy photos into these apps in iTunes' "Apps" section.
Have you tried just creating a new album with the same name as an existing one and seeing what that does?
Yes, I'm in heavy experimentation mode right now. I created an album with the same name and copied all the pictures to it so I had two identical folders. I Then I deleted that folder from my photo folder on the pc (I still haven't used iTunes on my Mac Mini yet) and synched and it deleted both the old folder and the new one of the same name. I restored the folder from a back up and am now going to change the names of each folder/album by adding an additional character then copy the pictures from each into an album with the original name. I think when I sync after that, it will delete the original folders/albums and leave the new ones I created.
As I said before, I love my iPhone but Android so blazingly easier when it comes to this stuff!!
I agree. I had never made albums on my computer first, so I didn't realize iOS had this restriction. Can't really think of a logical reason for this restriction to exist.
I can't get it to work. I just spend forever copying every picture into a newly renamed new album. So I then told iTunes I no longer want to synch photos from my photo folder (and subfolders) on my pc. It asked me if I wanted to keep them or delete them. I said delete them, thinking that it would delete the originals only but no, it deleted the original folders/albums and deleted every picture from within the new albums I created but leaving the new albums on my phone and empty.
This is beyond maddening.
How on Earth do I move the pictures into new folders and delete the old folders while keeping the new ones intact?? The only way do delete pictures/albums that were copied over FROM iTunes is WITH iTunes.
This is beyond maddening.
How on Earth do I move the pictures into new folders and delete the old folders while keeping the new ones intact?? The only way do delete pictures/albums that were copied over FROM iTunes is WITH iTunes.
I agree. I had never made albums on my computer first, so I didn't realize iOS had this restriction. Can't really think of a logical reason for this restriction to exist.
Yep this is exactly the point, in terms of flexibility. We can, with fool proof ease, drag and drop mp3 files in iTunes, delete, re-arrange, move, rename, etc etc, and to my horror I couldn't believe I couldn't do the same with photos! I thought oh this is going to be easy, just go to windows explorer, grab my already organized photos, sub directories and all, ie family, friends, wallpapers, whatever, and drag them over to iTunes! I mean it's fine and I admit you can still get everything done with iTunes, but damnit it's slow and I don't feel like running sync to get a few things over to the phone. Then again I'm a stubborn Windows geek I guess.