Whenever I take photos of my very young kids, I always use the burst option. Then in the Photos app I can easily select the photo within the burst where they’re both looking, or smiling, or there’s no blur. Then I can discard the other photos and I almost always get a good photo from my kids. The iPhone also makes suggestions on what they think the best photos of the burst are. They’re usually pretty spot on, too.
@@simonknight2973 that actually changed with iOS 15. If you just hold down the photo button it takes video now. You have to hold down the photo button and quickly slide your finger to the left to take a burst. It was an awful change.
You could also instead just shoot a Live Photo and quickly find the frame that is best looking. No need to overpopulate album with burst of almost identical photos.
I’ve never known how to use the photo burst once they’re taken. I go into my photos and it’ll say 10 photos but how do you actually see all 10 to scroll through like you say? I tried clicking on the words for burst. I try holding the photo I can’t seem to get the set of photos to come up?
TIP: When selecting multiple photos, you can drag your finger across each row to select all the photos you drag your finger across. If you continue dragging but now downward, it will select the next row and so forth. Drag in the reverse directions to deselect. Try it out!
You had me at immediately at the start, “Tap library to go back to newest photos”! Whoa! This saves me a lot of time not have to scroll all the way down !
That's the best 20 minutes I've spent at my computer ever! Thank you very much. Going to check if you have one for managing/sorting through over 20,000 images
Great video. On thing that was not covered was in the markup section. In addition to the pens, pressing the + button allows you to add stickers, description, add text, signature, or shapes.
Very helpful, thank you. One thing I found out about recently is that in order to search for photos by text included, you can’t do this from the photo app. Instead you have to go to your Home Screen and swipe downward to access the general search box.
I wish that when you added a photo to an album, it MOVED it instead of duplicating it! It would seem to be the most basic of organization forms to me. Great content and presentation, thank you!
I have an acquired brain injury so I use my iPhone to capture images of my day to day, so that I can aid my short term memory issues. It’s been an absolutely essential tool for me to use so that I can find my car or have visual cues to access my memories. I love the memory videos my iPhone can collate for me, I honestly don’t know what I would do without my iPhone camera, and the simple things the Photo App can perform is perfect for me. Your video was great, giving me a few things I didn’t already know about. I’m in Australia, and the sparkle ✨ info tab works here too. I like to find out the names of plants and that works brilliantly. I love that Live Photo tip you shared too for setting as Wallpaper 👌🏽❤️
I hope you may heal from your injury. I had one many years ago from a bad bicycle crash, and my short-term memory and spatial awareness was literally gone. It did take about three years, but those functions have rebuilt. The brain has the capability to rewire (plasticity), albeit slowly. Rest and recover. Good luck to you!
@@julz63 You are welcome. Be kind and patient with yourself- the progress is very gradual, but it helps to work toward the goals of capable normalcy to retrain new pathways. After my incident, I went on to take Judo for 8 years, earning a Black Belt. My concerns about even one concussion are offset with greatly improved balance and 'falling well'. Take care, and All the Best.
THANK YOU so much!! As an slr/dslr photographer for 40 years I'm now entering more serious iphone photography. I've taught digital photography the past 2 years at UNLV in the OLLI program and in the fall I'll be teaching my first phone photography class. Boy do I have a lot to learn! Thank you for so many tips, tricks and hints I can pass on to the students. Ever so grateful. Keep up the great work.
I've been using an iohone on and off for a decade now and this video had some really useful things I never knew. By the way, I love how you tied the square space ad into the video. Ive used them before and they are awesome. Keep on going my friend. You have a very calming voice that makes your videos very nice to listen to while experimenting with my iphone.
If you compare it to the photo album app in Android, the one in Iphone are miles behind. If you want to create an specific album, and copy the photos to that album from another one, then delete the photos from that other album, all photos will be deleted, in both album's. The same thing if you move the photos. I don't want the same photos in two albums, I want specific photos in the specific albums, and only there.
@@nixl3518 I love my iPhone, but I stand with ekspert on this one. I can sort photos on my iPhone, sure, but they’re still in two photos, and the folders don’t help me when I transfer the photos to my PC later. This is such a huge pain.
I dont think you know iPhone at all esp you use “miles behind” like you’re so eager. Transferring photos from 1 album to another wont delete the photos. “Remove from Album” option in iPhone will only delete the photos in that album but not the photos themselves.
@@deannausernametakeni also dont think you use iPhone or know iPhone at all. Many android fans now pretend to use iPhone that iPhone users dont believe anyway.
Is there a way to separate the camera roll from all other pictures? My camera roll, screen shots, Facebook pics are all mixed into one folder - Recent. That's very frustrating.
I really wish we could have a way to search for uncategorized photos. After a while using the app, we accumulate trash or duplicate pictures, or forget to add that last photo to its specific themed album. I would like to have this option available to quickly sort the new and forgotten content into its specific categories.
I get confused when trying to organize my pictures. When I take a picture it's in my camera roll until to merges into my Photo App. I then go into my camera roll and delete the pictures but it seems it delete the picture in my Photo's app and if it's backed up to my iCloud it is delete there too. At one time I had 40,000 pix on my camera roll. What am I doing wrong?
You should also have noted the slider control on the magic wand. It does wonders in tuning the wand, both to the left and the right. An often overseen tool.
I have been waiting years for this app to become manageable in iOS. The freedom to drag albums into folders is so basic, so fundamental and necessary, I just shake my head that it STILL doesn’t exist.
Glaring omission is that iphone photo albums can't be shared outside the iphone ecosystem, ie; your android friends don't have icloud accounts or access to icloud albums or multiple pics/vids. Best way to share is with Google Photos, better search and photo organization plus original quality pics and vids can be shared across multiple platforms via links
I love this video. Several things were shown that I didn't know. I accidentally discovered (had a thought, experimented, it worked) that if you add a caption to the photo you can search for a word in the caption. Thanks for the reminder 🙂 Good stuff over all
Great tips as always. Just one thing that I only discovered recently - with a Live photo you can pick and choose which frame you want as your key photo with the icon just next to the adjustment setting. Very useful if you take a nice photo of someone but they’ve blinked at the wrong moment!
Can you do this with videos to? I have a ton of videos but the first half second is usually black so I have to click into every single one to find the video I’m looking for. Is there a way to choose the icon?
This was so cool, thank you. I’m 61 years old so I didn’t grow up with this technology and it’s great to have it explained so well that even I can understand it!
One final tip that most people don’t seem to know about - DELETION of 80-90% of the crap that doesn’t need to be saved, either because it was a quick reminder of task that has already been completed, of a few dozen images of the same thing taken “just in case” the first one wasn’t good enough. Choose the good one, then trash the rest, people!
I'm guilty of this too in fairness, I used to be good at going back through old photos and deleting (usually if I had a random bout of insomnia or something) but haven't done it in a LONG time now.
That would be the reason for Apple to add an Outtakes function, the opposite of Favorite where one touch sends it there. Most of us cull images in several sessions. Apple instead seems ok with our disappointment in the real-world limitations they design in to a product.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. There is so much to learn for someone like me who is in her 70's. Your video is very helpful. I hope to be able to apply your instructions well and make use of the photos app better.
when you organize your photos into an albun can you have the photos dissapear from main library so that when you go back you know where you were and you are not placing same photos into album that you did at different time. thanks in advance
I didn't know at least 90% of this! Now I might get around to organizing photos enough to not embarrass myself (non)locating an individual photo to show a friend.
Super comprehensive! One more thing people may want to know is that you can change the frame of a Live Photo by clicking on the little circles icon on the bottom bar of a photo’s editing menu!
You’re production values, script and advice are so thoughtfully and excellently put together. Great work. Will now be sending to all family members who ask for ‘tech support’ before going to their houses. Thanks
Another good one! One thing I don't like about photos is the default sort with most recent at the bottom. Should be the opposite, most recent at the top!
This broadcaster is Tom Wells, and he does some of the very best broadcast in podcasts regarding Apple products on the Internet. He is simply very very good at what he does. Kudos!!
I find your channel extremely helpful. You do speak clearly but with some speed. I’m in the U.S. so your accent takes me a bit longer to understand. Would it be too costly to add closed captions to your videos? In any case, thank you for your carefully prepared, professional presentations.
If you tap on the screen while TH-cam is playing you’ll see some icons appear in the upper right of your screen. Tap on the settings icon that looks like a gear and you can change playback speed. 75% works great for me. There’s no distortion to his voice. It’s very clear and understandable . Also look for the transcript of his videos. Very helpful! And with his timestamps, you can move right to the topic you’re interested in implementing. I love this guy’s work!
I love the hidden feature! I've been looking for something like this for a while. I want to keep all my photos, but it stresses me out seeing how many I have and seeing them all appear at once. I love being able to hide all old photos and focus only on the most recent ones - feels like I'm making space for the future. Thank you!
After nearly a decade on Android, I’m considering a switch to iPhone in coming months. Photo management is the main thing I’ve been unsure of, since Google Photos seems superior to Apple’s app (as well as offering more free storage). This video was very helpful in demonstrating that Apple Photos does have greater functionality than might be otherwise apparent-though I may still stick to Google Photos on iOS, at least to begin with.
I’ve just got my firs iPhone, I’ve been on android since the beginning. Some tips are helpful but I still miss a lot of things like moving photos between folders and albums, able to control what folder to sync. For example managing WhatsApp media. It’s way easier in android vs iOS. I used to move the pics I liked to a separate folder in android and also Google Photos to back it up along with photos from camera, and not the entire WhatsApp folder filled with all the junk forwards from tens a of different groups. This unfortunately isn’t possible in iOS. There’s no way of choosing what to sync. No way of accessing photos outside photos app. This has become an annoyance. I know people suggest to use iCloud or just suggest alternative ways like copying to a computer etc but I’ve Google subscription with tons backed up content and alternative methods are way too tedious. I think Apple should be bit more lenient on these things.
I wish I could simply move a photo(s) from the Library to my designated Album, say Wildlife, and the original did not remain in my already cluttered Library. If I wanted the original to remain in the Library I would just copy and paste to the album, which is exactly what the process is doing. I don’t want a duplicate. Am I missing something?
You don’t miss anything. When it’s about photos and specifically the question you ask then there is no way. But still there is a solution. Use the file app. Select a photo or different photos, then the share button, save in files, choose a folder or make a folder. It speaks for themself. Delete the photo or photos in the photo app. Only in the file app there are the photos.
How do you determine if a photo has been added to an album? I am constantly re adding photos of grandchildren into their respective albums. Is there any kind of marker that tells you its already been cataloged?
When searching photos by media type, it would be really helpful if Apple would add a filter for black-and-white pictures. As a much older person, I have a lot of black and white photos that I have copied of ancestors long gone. I’d love to be able to search that, as I don’t get them all at once, I get them from time to time and so they are in many different days in my library. I have been trying to caption them when I copy them and put a designation of B&W at the end so I can search that way. But a black-and-white filter would be more helpful still.
Curious how you get your photos from your Camera into your iphone as I too would love to have all of my photos in one place - but I can't figure out an easy way to do this - only things I've come up with are emailing them to myself or putting them into a dropbox folder and importing that way (both of which are pretty cumbersome). I'm guessing there's a much easier way that I am missing - but I don't have a MAC - just a PC and an iphone. Would love any suggestions! : )
I can give you a suggestion. Using the file app. Select photos in the photo app, share button and then choose save image. You can choose a folder (or make a folder if there is no one) and when you are finished you can delete the photos in the photo app.
I’m on my fourth video and all are now saved to Favorites folder. Each topic so clearly explained without the theatrics some use in videos. Keep up the great work.
Question, when I try to use a live photo as my wallpaper, I can't. I hit share and I have a limited menu to choose from, no wallpaper. Weird, I have the full menu when choosing a photo, but not a live photo. Am I missing something? I even tried going to settings>wallpaper, but still unable to do it. iPhone 13
I have iTunes on my home computer and everything on my iPhone 12 is backed up to it, all the updates and backups go thru that computer. When I hookup the phone for charging it automatically searches my phone for photos and transfers them to the computer, very simple. But I was wondering if there is an easy way to transfer photos from my computer to the phone.
I never use photos to be honest. I find google photos to suit me more in the iPhone. But watched this to see if I’m missing something. In apple photos I really want to change 2 things. Change the default sort so that the most recent pic is at the top. Having it at the bottom just irritates me. And I can’t turn off face recognition, so the people folder keeps getting populated even though I don’t want this to happen.
Nice summary. One cautionary note about shared albums - Apple applies compression to photos and videos in Shared Albums, so the image quality is not as good as content in your regular Albums. For instance, video in a Shared Album is only stored at a resolution of 720p. There are also some limitations on the control you have over Family Sharing.
I received a message from Apple saying they are shutting down My Photo Stream. What is that and how can I tell if I am using it? I just assumed all photos were stored on my iCloud.
Absolutely spectacular information, always delivered clearly and with simple-to-follow steps. I always learn something when viewing your programs. Thanks from Canada.
In reference to the photo app, what is My Photo Stream? I received an email stating that Apple we eliminating My Photo Stream. How can I tell if I have that and what should I do?
I just want to know how to export my photos from the iPhone to the Photos app on the Mac (or via any other better app for that matter) while maintaining the integrity of the folders that I created in Photos in my iPhone. It seams a nightmare to keep photos that are in my folders on my iPhone and just being able to delete all the others after a backup to the Mac. Please help! Thanks so much!
Thanks for this! I am trying to clear up space in my iCloud, specifically with my photos. I don’t want to lose any, but can’t figure out how to do save some safely. Can you do a video on that? Thanks
Finally learning how to use my iPhone 😊 question when I made an album I did a little experiment if I delete a photo from my library it also removes it from my album is there a way to move my photos to a album so they are not in my library same as on a computer?
I give you an answer on your post, but TH-cam delete it. I don’t know why. It was just a normal reaction. So again. There is a way. 1) select some photos in photo app on your iphone which you want use in a folder. 2) use the share button and scroll down till you find ‘save in File app’ . if it is not in the list, you have to download the app in the app store. 3) choose where your photos must be saved, on your device or in icloud drive (icloud drive uses the same storage as icloud photos) and then you can create a folder. 4) go to the File app to the location where you saved the photos. There you can easily make folders, a folder in a folder is also possible. 5) delete the photos in the photo app and in the bin of the photo app. Now the photos are only in icloud drive or your device. And not in the photo app library.
Love listening to all your clearly stated information along with your accent! And yes, I do appreciate all your advice slowly to process and well organized! On another note…….Do we see a wedding ring on your finger?
Could you explain why when using some applications which use your photos, and you’re asked to choose a photo, it picks some random order for the photos, or even filters out things like screenshots or items I’ve imported? It’s a very annoying behavior.
I would like to run a shortcut that puts my phone on "do not disturb" then open the "camera app" then start a video using a 1.5x zoom from the start. I can't get the zoom to start. Please help.
Very informative. Thank you. Please help!!! The reason I headed here was because I’m trying to rearrange images in albums to no avail. Went to albums, …, sort, custom order, held down and tried to move to new location. This did not work. What am I doing wrong? Oh yeah I’m on iPhone 12
A suggestion for Apple photos as i can’t find a way to solve this. I just want to see photos i have taken on my iPhone without photos received from other apps
I have Amazon photos and google photos but I want to organize it for social media can’t seem to find a cloud storage that’s unlimited space any suggestions?
Getting videos out of apple photos is extremely difficult. I must be doing something wrong, whether I drag to the desktop or export, any video of any real length (over 5 mins or so) rarely completes the process and forget exporting multiple videos. Any thoughts?
I'm trying to figure out how to Airdrop albums from my iPhone to my iPad. Without using iCloud. It breaks the photos out of the album when I do it now. Is this even possible? Currently I email those albums to maintain their continuity. Compressed to the medium setting
Thank you! I found you by needing to know how to 'add' Albums to a Folder. You're right! It is WAY to difficult and time consuming! Thanks for teaching me how to do it (although it would have been helpful to actually go through each of the required steps. I DID figure out how to do it once you described how, but it would have been helpful if you actually did each step. Perhaps you can do one on just that (or maybe you already have one that I have not discovered yet). May I suggest that an influencer like you could appeal to apple to make it easier for this function: hopefully, they would listen to someone like you (you have more clout than I do!). Again, thank you for creating these videos and for you help!
Hi is there a way you can delete photos on your i phone without them being deleted in the cloud, so you can free up space on your device without losing your photos. At the minute if i delete a photo on my i phone is disappears from my i cloud photos.
Is it possible to add some photos taken from a different device to icould and eventually have it available on the iphone too? I recently switched from android and I have bunch of photos and videos which i want on my icloud and iphone . Please let me know how can this be done.
When I look in Photos in my iMac and search albums 2020 I see few hundreds photos there, but when I look albums 2020 in my iPhone it tells me that there are no photos available. Why?
I just learned how to arrange the albums alphabetically. I hope this helps. In your photos app click on your albums icon at the bottom of the screen, then tap 'select all', then tap 'Edit' and you can tap and hold an album and drag it in whatever order you want. I have situated all of my albums alphabetically by my album title.😊
If you are searching, using multiple key words, do you have to use a separator or a plus or an ampersand? I really wish Apple would go back to letting us search via Siri. I have no idea idea why they took that function away.
I would love to learn if I can have control over choosing the featured photos under memory. It would be nice to have control of it for screen widget purposes without using third party app
Thanks!
Thank you very much!
Whenever I take photos of my very young kids, I always use the burst option. Then in the Photos app I can easily select the photo within the burst where they’re both looking, or smiling, or there’s no blur. Then I can discard the other photos and I almost always get a good photo from my kids.
The iPhone also makes suggestions on what they think the best photos of the burst are. They’re usually pretty spot on, too.
Nice tip. Worth saying that the burst mode can be activated by holding on the take photo button for those who aren’t aware and want to try burst.
@@simonknight2973 that actually changed with iOS 15. If you just hold down the photo button it takes video now. You have to hold down the photo button and quickly slide your finger to the left to take a burst. It was an awful change.
You could also instead just shoot a Live Photo and quickly find the frame that is best looking. No need to overpopulate album with burst of almost identical photos.
@@Netscorer I agree. Much more convenient.
I’ve never known how to use the photo burst once they’re taken. I go into my photos and it’ll say 10 photos but how do you actually see all 10 to scroll through like you say? I tried clicking on the words for burst. I try holding the photo I can’t seem to get the set of photos to come up?
TIP: When selecting multiple photos, you can drag your finger across each row to select all the photos you drag your finger across. If you continue dragging but now downward, it will select the next row and so forth. Drag in the reverse directions to deselect. Try it out!
Brilliant! Thank you❤
yes I did .. thanks ..
You had me at immediately at the start, “Tap library to go back to newest photos”! Whoa! This saves me a lot of time not have to scroll all the way down !
That's the best 20 minutes I've spent at my computer ever! Thank you very much. Going to check if you have one for managing/sorting through over 20,000 images
I wasted 20 minutes of my life
Great video. On thing that was not covered was in the markup section. In addition to the pens, pressing the + button allows you to add stickers, description, add text, signature, or shapes.
Very helpful, thank you. One thing I found out about recently is that in order to search for photos by text included, you can’t do this from the photo app. Instead you have to go to your Home Screen and swipe downward to access the general search box.
it works perfectly fine for me from the search field inside the photos app
I wish that when you added a photo to an album, it MOVED it instead of duplicating it! It would seem to be the most basic of organization forms to me. Great content and presentation, thank you!
I have an acquired brain injury so I use my iPhone to capture images of my day to day, so that I can aid my short term memory issues. It’s been an absolutely essential tool for me to use so that I can find my car or have visual cues to access my memories. I love the memory videos my iPhone can collate for me, I honestly don’t know what I would do without my iPhone camera, and the simple things the Photo App can perform is perfect for me.
Your video was great, giving me a few things I didn’t already know about. I’m in Australia, and the sparkle ✨ info tab works here too. I like to find out the names of plants and that works brilliantly. I love that Live Photo tip you shared too for setting as Wallpaper 👌🏽❤️
I’m also in the ABI community and your tip is excellent to help with our common memory issues. I’ll be sharing it with my friends with ABI.
I hope you may heal from your injury. I had one many years ago from a bad bicycle crash, and my short-term memory and spatial awareness was literally gone. It did take about three years, but those functions have rebuilt. The brain has the capability to rewire (plasticity), albeit slowly. Rest and recover. Good luck to you!
@@ktkt1825 thank you so much for your kind words…it’s a long process for sure , but the brain is an absolute marvel ❤️
@@julz63 You are welcome. Be kind and patient with yourself- the progress is very gradual, but it helps to work toward the goals of capable normalcy to retrain new pathways. After my incident, I went on to take Judo for 8 years, earning a Black Belt. My concerns about even one concussion are offset with greatly improved balance and 'falling well'. Take care, and All the Best.
THANK YOU so much!! As an slr/dslr photographer for 40 years I'm now entering more serious iphone photography. I've taught digital photography the past 2 years at UNLV in the OLLI program and in the fall I'll be teaching my first phone photography class. Boy do I have a lot to learn! Thank you for so many tips, tricks and hints I can pass on to the students. Ever so grateful. Keep up the great work.
I've been using an iohone on and off for a decade now and this video had some really useful things I never knew. By the way, I love how you tied the square space ad into the video. Ive used them before and they are awesome. Keep on going my friend. You have a very calming voice that makes your videos very nice to listen to while experimenting with my iphone.
If you compare it to the photo album app in Android, the one in Iphone are miles behind. If you want to create an specific album, and copy the photos to that album from another one, then delete the photos from that other album, all photos will be deleted, in both album's. The same thing if you move the photos. I don't want the same photos in two albums, I want specific photos in the specific albums, and only there.
Yes, we know you android-oids think you’re always ahead when you’re always behind!
@@nixl3518 I love my iPhone, but I stand with ekspert on this one. I can sort photos on my iPhone, sure, but they’re still in two photos, and the folders don’t help me when I transfer the photos to my PC later. This is such a huge pain.
Nice opinion.
I dont think you know iPhone at all esp you use “miles behind” like you’re so eager.
Transferring photos from 1 album to another wont delete the photos. “Remove from Album” option in iPhone will only delete the photos in that album but not the photos themselves.
@@deannausernametakeni also dont think you use iPhone or know iPhone at all. Many android fans now pretend to use iPhone that iPhone users dont believe anyway.
I am amazed! yes i'm old and still learning the simpelest things on my phone so i am so happy to have found this channel Thank you so much
I know right! He just helps with so many tricks and it feels like I don’t know my phone enough
Is there a way to separate the camera roll from all other pictures?
My camera roll, screen shots, Facebook pics are all mixed into one folder - Recent.
That's very frustrating.
A most articulate presentation. I am very impressed by the content, your superb delivery, and the top notch production values.
Thank you!
I really wish we could have a way to search for uncategorized photos. After a while using the app, we accumulate trash or duplicate pictures, or forget to add that last photo to its specific themed album. I would like to have this option available to quickly sort the new and forgotten content into its specific categories.
100% agree
I get confused when trying to organize my pictures. When I take a picture it's in my camera roll until to merges into my Photo App. I then go into my camera roll and delete the pictures but it seems it delete the picture in my Photo's app and if it's backed up to my iCloud it is delete there too. At one time I had 40,000 pix on my camera roll. What am I doing wrong?
You should also have noted the slider control on the magic wand. It does wonders in tuning the wand, both to the left and the right. An often overseen tool.
oh wow! Thanks for that.....just checked it out and it works really nicely!🙂
I have to go back and check the contents of the video to see what you mean.
I have been waiting years for this app to become manageable in iOS. The freedom to drag albums into folders is so basic, so fundamental and necessary, I just shake my head that it STILL doesn’t exist.
You can use third party apps, that are synced with your cloud like “phoom“
@@Knastig That app is also so damn bad and hard to use
What are they smoking at Apple?
IOS 16 will allow you to lock the hidden album. Finally we will be able to properly hide all our dirty photos 😂
😂😂😂
Phew!!
It’s so embarrassing when people see pics of a dirty room or car
Yeah not organise them into folders though
@@MaxPowers1245 Maybe in another 10 years Apple will facilitate that 😂
Glaring omission is that iphone photo albums can't be shared outside the iphone ecosystem, ie; your android friends don't have icloud accounts or access to icloud albums or multiple pics/vids.
Best way to share is with Google Photos, better search and photo organization plus original quality pics and vids can be shared across multiple platforms via links
I love this video. Several things were shown that I didn't know. I accidentally discovered (had a thought, experimented, it worked) that if you add a caption to the photo you can search for a word in the caption. Thanks for the reminder 🙂 Good stuff over all
This is the best video tutorial I’ve seen on the Photos App. Many thanks!
Great tips as always. Just one thing that I only discovered recently - with a Live photo you can pick and choose which frame you want as your key photo with the icon just next to the adjustment setting. Very useful if you take a nice photo of someone but they’ve blinked at the wrong moment!
THANK YOU. I couldn’t find it so thought it didn’t exist. Found it now😃
Can you do this with videos to? I have a ton of videos but the first half second is usually black so I have to click into every single one to find the video I’m looking for. Is there a way to choose the icon?
Brilliant tutorial!! Will definitely be watching this multiple times. Thank you!!!
A tutorial about Photo Duplicates would be nice. Your videos are so helpful, easy to follow, and really work. Well done!
This was so cool, thank you. I’m 61 years old so I didn’t grow up with this technology and it’s great to have it explained so well that even I can understand it!
Glad it was helpful!
One final tip that most people don’t seem to know about - DELETION of 80-90% of the crap that doesn’t need to be saved, either because it was a quick reminder of task that has already been completed, of a few dozen images of the same thing taken “just in case” the first one wasn’t good enough. Choose the good one, then trash the rest, people!
I'm guilty of this too in fairness, I used to be good at going back through old photos and deleting (usually if I had a random bout of insomnia or something) but haven't done it in a LONG time now.
@@ProperHonestTech - I am also guilty of this! Now, I have so many photos and no time to delete the near duplicate photos. 😞
That would be the reason for Apple to add an Outtakes function, the opposite of Favorite where one touch sends it there. Most of us cull images in several sessions. Apple instead seems ok with our disappointment in the real-world limitations they design in to a product.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. There is so much to learn for someone like me who is in her 70's. Your video is very helpful. I hope to be able to apply your instructions well and make use of the photos app better.
Thanks, I’ve always been a ‘scroller’ and frequently give up. Time for some thought about organisation.
when you organize your photos into an albun can you have the photos dissapear from main library so that when you go back you know where you were and you are not placing same photos into album that you did at different time. thanks in advance
The albums are just like a filter so that you don’t need to search your entire library, they’re not a separate physical place on your phone. :)
I didn't know at least 90% of this! Now I might get around to organizing photos enough to not embarrass myself (non)locating an individual photo to show a friend.
Amazing!! Your video will have me looking like an experienced iPhone user and i just switched 3 months ago. Thanks for the lesson.
Super comprehensive! One more thing people may want to know is that you can change the frame of a Live Photo by clicking on the little circles icon on the bottom bar of a photo’s editing menu!
You’re production values, script and advice are so thoughtfully and excellently put together. Great work. Will now be sending to all family members who ask for ‘tech support’ before going to their houses. Thanks
O
Dr
Another good one! One thing I don't like about photos is the default sort with most recent at the bottom. Should be the opposite, most recent at the top!
Yeah, I think I agree with you - although I now feel like I'm so accustomed to the current sort method, I'd struggle to adjust.
This broadcaster is Tom Wells, and he does some of the very best broadcast in podcasts regarding Apple products on the Internet. He is simply very very good at what he does. Kudos!!
Thank you! 👍🏻
So much information here. I’ll have to watch this about 2 or 3 more times.
I find your channel extremely helpful. You do speak clearly but with some speed. I’m in the U.S. so your accent takes me a bit longer to understand. Would it be too costly to add closed captions to your videos? In any case, thank you for your carefully prepared, professional presentations.
Closed Captions are already available on my videos! Just press the CC button on the TH-cam player.
If you tap on the screen while TH-cam is playing you’ll see some icons appear in the upper right of your screen. Tap on the settings icon that looks like a gear and you can change playback speed. 75% works great for me. There’s no distortion to his voice. It’s very clear and understandable . Also look for the transcript of his videos. Very helpful! And with his timestamps, you can move right to the topic you’re interested in implementing. I love this guy’s work!
@@ProperHonestTech Now you know why I need your channel. Thanks.
JUST WOW, thanks man!!
Haha, “kind of like the shoe box under your bed”. So true. Love any tips about finding photos better. I have lots of albums.
I love the hidden feature! I've been looking for something like this for a while. I want to keep all my photos, but it stresses me out seeing how many I have and seeing them all appear at once. I love being able to hide all old photos and focus only on the most recent ones - feels like I'm making space for the future. Thank you!
After nearly a decade on Android, I’m considering a switch to iPhone in coming months. Photo management is the main thing I’ve been unsure of, since Google Photos seems superior to Apple’s app (as well as offering more free storage). This video was very helpful in demonstrating that Apple Photos does have greater functionality than might be otherwise apparent-though I may still stick to Google Photos on iOS, at least to begin with.
But Google Photos are not as private.
Literally NOTHING is private with Google!
I’ve just got my firs iPhone, I’ve been on android since the beginning. Some tips are helpful but I still miss a lot of things like moving photos between folders and albums, able to control what folder to sync. For example managing WhatsApp media. It’s way easier in android vs iOS. I used to move the pics I liked to a separate folder in android and also Google Photos to back it up along with photos from camera, and not the entire WhatsApp folder filled with all the junk forwards from tens a of different groups.
This unfortunately isn’t possible in iOS. There’s no way of choosing what to sync. No way of accessing photos outside photos app. This has become an annoyance. I know people suggest to use iCloud or just suggest alternative ways like copying to a computer etc but I’ve Google subscription with tons backed up content and alternative methods are way too tedious. I think Apple should be bit more lenient on these things.
Thanks for info, I didn't know, I don't use google photos though
Did you get any solution bro? I too have the same problem.@@hegdevishwa
I miss this so much. The new update made me realize just how good this version of the photos app way
Excellent tutorial! Straight to the point, clear audio, good visual instructions, well organized. Thank you! This was very helpful!
Albums have been so helpful especially for screenshots.
That "Live Photo as Wallpaper" is incredible. Subscribed!
I wish I could simply move a photo(s) from the Library to my designated Album, say Wildlife, and the original did not remain in my already cluttered Library. If I wanted the original to remain in the Library I would just copy and paste to the album, which is exactly what the process is doing. I don’t want a duplicate. Am I missing something?
You don’t miss anything. When it’s about photos and specifically the question you ask then there is no way. But still there is a solution. Use the file app. Select a photo or different photos, then the share button, save in files, choose a folder or make a folder. It speaks for themself. Delete the photo or photos in the photo app. Only in the file app there are the photos.
@@Kluivertnr1 Thanks so much for responding. That makes sense and is an option, albeit a bit inconvenient.
How do you determine if a photo has been added to an album? I am constantly re adding photos of grandchildren into their respective albums. Is there any kind of marker that tells you its already been cataloged?
When searching photos by media type, it would be really helpful if Apple would add a filter for black-and-white pictures. As a much older person, I have a lot of black and white photos that I have copied of ancestors long gone. I’d love to be able to search that, as I don’t get them all at once, I get them from time to time and so they are in many different days in my library. I have been trying to caption them when I copy them and put a designation of B&W at the end so I can search that way. But a black-and-white filter would be more helpful still.
Curious how you get your photos from your Camera into your iphone as I too would love to have all of my photos in one place - but I can't figure out an easy way to do this - only things I've come up with are emailing them to myself or putting them into a dropbox folder and importing that way (both of which are pretty cumbersome). I'm guessing there's a much easier way that I am missing - but I don't have a MAC - just a PC and an iphone. Would love any suggestions! : )
I can give you a suggestion. Using the file app. Select photos in the photo app, share button and then choose save image. You can choose a folder (or make a folder if there is no one) and when you are finished you can delete the photos in the photo app.
I’m on my fourth video and all are now saved to Favorites folder. Each topic so clearly explained without the theatrics some use in videos. Keep up the great work.
Live Photos on the Lock Screen don’t work anymore unless there’s a way you know how?
Question, when I try to use a live photo as my wallpaper, I can't. I hit share and I have a limited menu to choose from, no wallpaper. Weird, I have the full menu when choosing a photo, but not a live photo. Am I missing something? I even tried going to settings>wallpaper, but still unable to do it. iPhone 13
There is only one thing I want to do. Sort my photos so I can have the latest first when I open the app. Is that possible?
I have iTunes on my home computer and everything on my iPhone 12 is backed up to it, all the updates and backups go thru that computer. When I hookup the phone for charging it automatically searches my phone for photos and transfers them to the computer, very simple. But I was wondering if there is an easy way to transfer photos from my computer to the phone.
I never use photos to be honest. I find google photos to suit me more in the iPhone. But watched this to see if I’m missing something. In apple photos I really want to change 2 things. Change the default sort so that the most recent pic is at the top. Having it at the bottom just irritates me. And I can’t turn off face recognition, so the people folder keeps getting populated even though I don’t want this to happen.
agreeed!
As i create albums, i would like to actually MOVE the photo from the main ‘all photos’, not make a copy. Anyway to do this? I have iPhone 13 Pro.
Nice summary. One cautionary note about shared albums - Apple applies compression to photos and videos in Shared Albums, so the image quality is not as good as content in your regular Albums. For instance, video in a Shared Album is only stored at a resolution of 720p. There are also some limitations on the control you have over Family Sharing.
On the other hand, capacity of Shared Albums is effectively unlimited so if you’re running out of space it’s a useful lifeboat…
@@TonyG579PoppyG579 There’s a limit of 5,000 photos and videos (combined).
I received a message from Apple saying they are shutting down My Photo Stream. What is that and how can I tell if I am using it? I just assumed all photos were stored on my iCloud.
YES.
This is priceless information- thanks 🙏👍
Absolutely spectacular information, always delivered clearly and with simple-to-follow steps. I always learn something when viewing your programs. Thanks from Canada.
Is it possible to set a video as wallpaper? if so, how to please. thanks
Yes! Just long press on the picture you want to use as a wallpaper, select 'share' from the menu that pops up, and choose 'use as wallpaper'.
8:36 In case, with the instance, click the heart button or edit in it
In reference to the photo app, what is My Photo Stream? I received an email stating that Apple we eliminating My Photo Stream. How can I tell if I have that and what should I do?
Man, I love this channel!
I just want to know how to export my photos from the iPhone to the Photos app on the Mac (or via any other better app for that matter) while maintaining the integrity of the folders that I created in Photos in my iPhone. It seams a nightmare to keep photos that are in my folders on my iPhone and just being able to delete all the others after a backup to the Mac. Please help! Thanks so much!
Thanks for this! I am trying to clear up space in my iCloud, specifically with my photos. I don’t want to lose any, but can’t figure out how to do save some safely. Can you do a video on that? Thanks
iPhone is so far behind, when it comes to the Photos App. It's so frustrating 😞
Finally learning how to use my iPhone 😊 question when I made an album I did a little experiment if I delete a photo from my library it also removes it from my album is there a way to move my photos to a album so they are not in my library same as on a computer?
I give you an answer on your post, but TH-cam delete it. I don’t know why. It was just a normal reaction.
So again.
There is a way.
1) select some photos in photo app on your iphone which you want use in a folder.
2) use the share button and scroll down till you find ‘save in File app’ . if it is not in the list, you have to download the app in the app store.
3) choose where your photos must be saved, on your device or in icloud drive (icloud drive uses the same storage as icloud photos) and then you can create a folder.
4) go to the File app to the location where you saved the photos. There you can easily make folders, a folder in a folder is also possible.
5) delete the photos in the photo app and in the bin of the photo app. Now the photos are only in icloud drive or your device. And not in the photo app library.
is it possible to create a new album and then have subsequent photos sent direct to that album?
Visual look up works in Canada as well.
can i add hastag to multiple photos instead of adding it one by one?
How can I convert a screenshot (or many screenshots) into .JPG format? Thanks.
I use an app that converts an HEICTOJPEG.
11:32 -My iPhone doesn't show options of Duplicate; Hide; or Slideshow. I am on iOS 17.0.3. How can I enable these, please?
I've found Hide by tapping on the 3 dots (ellipsis?) at the top right of screen, when displaying the phot to hide.
In iOS 16 now you can tap and hold an item within a photo and then choose copy and paste it anywhere on any other app without the background
Love listening to all your clearly stated information along with your accent! And yes, I do appreciate all your advice slowly to process and well organized! On another note…….Do we see a wedding ring on your finger?
Thanks for your kind words! And yes, my wife and I tied the knot earlier this year!
Could you explain why when using some applications which use your photos, and you’re asked to choose a photo, it picks some random order for the photos, or even filters out things like screenshots or items I’ve imported? It’s a very annoying behavior.
I would like to run a shortcut that puts my phone on "do not disturb" then open the "camera app" then start a video using a 1.5x zoom from the start. I can't get the zoom to start. Please help.
Very informative. Thank you.
Please help!!! The reason I headed here was because I’m trying to rearrange images in albums to no avail. Went to albums, …, sort, custom order, held down and tried to move to new location. This did not work. What am I doing wrong? Oh yeah I’m on iPhone 12
A suggestion for Apple photos as i can’t find a way to solve this. I just want to see photos i have taken on my iPhone without photos received from other apps
How do you delete all photos in specific folder excluding favourite photos?
I have Amazon photos and google photos but I want to organize it for social media can’t seem to find a cloud storage that’s unlimited space any suggestions?
Getting videos out of apple photos is extremely difficult. I must be doing something wrong, whether I drag to the desktop or export, any video of any real length (over 5 mins or so) rarely completes the process and forget exporting multiple videos. Any thoughts?
I'm trying to figure out how to Airdrop albums from my iPhone to my iPad. Without using iCloud. It breaks the photos out of the album when I do it now. Is this even possible? Currently I email those albums to maintain their continuity. Compressed to the medium setting
How to add the same caption to a collection of photos at once ???
Thank you! I found you by needing to know how to 'add' Albums to a Folder. You're right! It is WAY to difficult and time consuming!
Thanks for teaching me how to do it (although it would have been helpful to actually go through each of the required steps. I DID figure out how to do it once you described how, but it would have been helpful if you actually did each step. Perhaps you can do one on just that (or maybe you already have one that I have not discovered yet).
May I suggest that an influencer like you could appeal to apple to make it easier for this function: hopefully, they would listen to someone like you (you have more clout than I do!).
Again, thank you for creating these videos and for you help!
Hi is there a way you can delete photos on your i phone without them being deleted in the cloud, so you can free up space on your device without losing your photos. At the minute if i delete a photo on my i phone is disappears from my i cloud photos.
Is it possible to add some photos taken from a different device to icould and eventually have it available on the iphone too? I recently switched from android and I have bunch of photos and videos which i want on my icloud and iphone . Please let me know how can this be done.
"Share" can be used to move photos from an iPhone to a Mac (for people like me with no need to store in iCloud or pay for iCloud)
Is there any way to download about 200,000 photos onto my computer? I’ve tried but my computer is not a fan
Thanks for the nice tips, due to my work, I need to manage all the photos by name, how can I name each photo and how to show its name in the album?
When I look in Photos in my iMac and search albums 2020 I see few hundreds photos there, but when I look albums 2020 in my iPhone it tells me that there are no photos available. Why?
Thank you. How do I arrange albums alphabetically?
I just learned how to arrange the albums alphabetically. I hope this helps. In your photos app click on your albums icon at the bottom of the screen, then tap 'select all', then tap 'Edit' and you can tap and hold an album and drag it in whatever order you want. I have situated all of my albums alphabetically by my album title.😊
If you are searching, using multiple key words, do you have to use a separator or a plus or an ampersand? I really wish Apple would go back to letting us search via Siri. I have no idea idea why they took that function away.
Thanks!
Thank you very much!
Is there a way to drag and drop a photo in the Library to move it in order to place it next to another photo?
I would love to learn if I can have control over choosing the featured photos under memory. It would be nice to have control of it for screen widget purposes without using third party app
Absolutely love your channel! Very informative…
How do I delete photos that when I try to select them the delete icon is not active. What have I done wrong? It’s an Ipad Pro