How do you create photo and video albums on iPhone and iPad? Right in the Photos app!
The Photos app on iPhone and iPad gives you quick and easy access to all your pictures and videos. Camera Roll/All Photos, My Photos Stream, Panoramas, Videos, even Selfies all have their own, dedicated albums. While you can't change or delete any of those, you can add and manage albums of your own. That way, exactly the photos you want are exactly where you want them.
- How to create new albums with the Photos app for iPhone and iPad
- How to add photos and videos to existing albums with the Photos app for iPhone and iPad
How to create new albums with the Photos app for iPhone and iPad
- Launch the Photos app from your Home screen.
- Tap on Albums in the far-right bottom navigation (if you aren't there already).
Tap on the Add button (looks like a "+") in the upper left hand corner.
- Name the new album
- Tap Save.
- Tap on all the photos or videos you'd like to add to that album.
Tap on Done in the upper right hand corner.
Your new album will now appear in the Albums tab.
How to add photos and videos to existing albums with the Photos app for iPhone and iPad
- Launch the Photos app from your home screen.
- Tap an album to view its contents.
Tap Select at the top right.
- Tap on all the photos or videos you'd like to add.
- Tap on Add to at the bottom.
Tap the album you want to add the photos or videos to, or choose New Album to create a new album.
You can create albums or anything, temporary or permanent, based on people, places, trips, types, and more!
Reader comments
How to organize photos and videos into albums on your iPhone or iPad
I've known this for years now. What I don't get is why the pictures stay in the camera roll after the have been transferred to the new album. Apple should give us the option to delete them from the camera roll once they have been transferred to a new album.
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Totally agree,that's one major annoyance of iOS.
agree with you it should be delete from camera roll for better organize
True
I wish you could move a photo to an album while viewing the individual photo (not from the full camera roll view). Annoying...
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Hi, there's meanwhile the iOS app Utiful for moving photos into folders. Utiful is a complementary photo library, so you can freely move photos between the Camera Roll and the Utiful folders. So, unlike the Photos app than only duplicates photos into albums, Utiful makes it finally possible to physically MOVE photos out of the Camera Roll.
And let's not forget how annoying it is that we cannot delete a photo in an album. If Apple is serious about wanting us to have total control over everything on the iPhone with out having to connect it to a computer (a la "cut the cord") - they need to give us more control over organizing things right from the handset.
Deletion of photos is possible but only for photos which were NOT synced via the PC. It's true that on the iPad, you can't delete photos which were added to the from the PC. You can manage those photos and organize them into albums via iTunes or third-party tools such as copytrns Photo: http://www.copytrans.net/support/how-to-sort-and-organize-ipad-photos/
I don't like the fact that if you delete a picture in recents it also deletes it from the album. I am also struggling to find a good company to print a photo book that's easy to use now we've lost iphoto.
Hi, there's the iOS app Utiful for moving photos into folders. Utiful is a complementary photo library, so you can freely move photos between the Camera Roll and the Utiful folders. So, unlike the Photos app than only duplicates photos into albums, Utiful makes it finally possible to physically MOVE photos out of the Camera Roll.
Hi,
The above, i guess we all knew.
I have few queries.
First, i have a iPhone 6 plus(64 gig).....I hate it,...seriously hate it.... who said its a super stable OS....hangs every day once. However the hardware is "okay"
Second...iOS 8.1 .... damn... i wish i didnt leave Android and Windows Ecosystem..... This is so stupid and annoiying
1. All photos coming to my Whatsapp are saved in Camera Roll.... Plz help,... I screwed up wid my ex. For god sakes.....camera roll has a "camera" in it.,..... there is a reason its not called as "whatsapp roll"
2. After creating an album....say "whatsapp crap" ..... is there any way that all the whatsapp photos directly go to that folder??
3. If say..... iOS still stays this immature and puts whatsapp and other craps to my camera roll..... is there any way that I fucking stop them to auto upload to my "One Drive" ?? ..... i only want my "Camera" Roll pics....and not whatsapp crap.
Am very unsatisfied of iOS iphone 6 plus..... want to sell it..... its just 3 weeks old
very very veryyyyyy unsatisfied user of iPhone Shit Plus
it's not a problem of the IOS at all. it is due to your setting on whatsapp.
open your whatsapp app, then go to "setting", then "Chat Setting" , then you will see "save incoming media", unable it. from then you will need to download image on your own. and even you make an album "whatsapp crap" won't help, it's just a phone, not an A.I. product. Relax, man!
What's missing here is how to organize photos by rearranging them in an already created album in iPAD iOS 8.1.3. (I'm terrified to download 8.2 after reading many comments and questions.)
I totally agree. that is exactly what I am looking for.
I have the answer. It is totally not obvious. Tap on the album in iPad's Photos. Tap on Select in upper right corner. Tap and hold on photo you want to move. Slide it to where you want it to go. Yes, you can move ONLY ONE photo at a time, no matter how many you select at once.
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There's an iOS app called Utiful to separate and organize pics in folders, you can then forget Apple's "albums". You can move photos from the Camera Roll to the app as you wish (or also back to the Camera Roll). In Utiful, you can organize in as many folders just as you like. Simple & effective.