Managing Photos

Danthus · 5 Feb 2021 at 21:04

Is there an easy way to manage my photos on my iPhone or in iCloud via a browser on a PC.

I want to create some folders and select multiple items and move photos to the albums/folders.

It just seems some cumbersome doing it directly on my phone.

Feek · 5 Feb 2021 at 21:43

http://www.icloud.com

Danthus · 5 Feb 2021 at 22:37

I'm in iCloud now.

I have a folder with images in.

I have created another folder but when I move pictures from the old one to the new one they still appear in both. I don't want that.

Gibbs · 7 Feb 2021 at 02:48

Feek said:
http://www.icloud.com

Real helpful

Feek · 7 Feb 2021 at 09:15

Gibbs said:
Real helpful

It's a web interface to Photos, it does exactly what he's asked for.

OldCoals said:
I have created another folder but when I move pictures from the old one to the new one they still appear in both. I don't want that.

Think of albums as tags, when you add a photo to an album, it just adds an extra tag for the additional album. If you want to remove it from the first album, you have to select it and remove it. There's no actual move option as far as I'm aware.

All photos will always show in the main Library.

iamwilf · 9 Feb 2021 at 22:57

OldCoals said:
I have created another folder but when I move pictures from the old one to the new one they still appear in both. I don't want that.

Like Feek said it's more like tagging than actual folders, but it's great once you're used to it. Some photos belong in multiple groups and this way you don't have to keep multiple copies, only a link/tag to the original.
Also you can remove the photo from the old album without deleting it if you prefer

mrochester · 14 Feb 2021 at 16:15

iamwilf said:
Like Feek said it's more like tagging than actual folders, but it's great once you're used to it. Some photos belong in multiple groups and this way you don't have to keep multiple copies, only a link/tag to the original.
Also you can remove the photo from the old album without deleting it if you prefer

A lot of people really seem to struggle with the concept of metadata. Some people expect a photo to be either in a folder or not.

iamwilf · 14 Feb 2021 at 19:45

mrochester said:
A lot of people really seem to struggle with the concept of metadata. Some people expect a photo to be either in a folder or not.

First thing i tried doing on my iPhone was sorting photos in folders like i could on Android. It seemed backwards, but much prefer this way now

mrochester · 14 Feb 2021 at 20:07

iamwilf said:
First thing i tried doing on my iPhone was sorting photos in folders like i could on Android. It seemed backwards, but much prefer this way now

I tend to look at sorting photos into folders as the ‘old fashioned’ way of doing it, where you micro-managed your storage and where things were. I feel like with modern technology we should have moved past needing to do that.