CREATING PHOTO ALBUMS and FOLDERS in your iPAD PHOTOS APP! - GUIDE TO GETTING STARTED!
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2024
- Beginners guide to creating albums and folders in the photos app on your iPad. We will look at all sorts of options on how to organize your pictures beyond using date and give you confidence to organizing your photos today!
00:00 | Intro & Welcome!
01:36 | Creating Albums
03:17 | Finding photos based off one similar photo
04:25 | Move, Rearrange, and Delete albums
05:45 | Renaming Albums
06:22 | Creating Folder Albums
08:09 | Moving Albums into folders…or LACK THERE OF!
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My frustration is, ALL of the photos STAYING in the main library, instead of ‘just moving them,’ so I’d visibly SEE, which photos I have left to sort! ARRGH Apple, just ARRGH!
Oh, @Matrix Unravelling, I hear you! It does take some time getting used to it, and for sure could be improved!
I think Apple is trying to make it easy to have everything in the main Library and sort it all by date and then have users like you and me sort manually by albums.
A quick tip if you're looking to easily manually organize all of you photos into albums...although this will only work if you have a Mac...
Create a "Smart Album" on in Photos on your Mac and tell it to find every photo that is NOT in an album, then you can organize based off of that Smart Album vs the Main Library and then you know what photos you haven't manually organized yet!
Hope this helps and thanks so much for watching! I appreciate the support!
@@Learnwithjoel, ‘YES!” And “thank you” so much. I was going to also add, before reading your solution, I could literally make a separate folder containing a duplicate of ALL photos, which would give me the freedom to delete, as I sort - but new photos wouldn’t be added to that folder, by default. “Thanks again!” P.S. I have the new iPad Pro.
Big problem of mine as well. Thinking of switching back to android because of this. It’s just stupid.
I agree, i wish they would just go into folders or albums and out of the library
@@laneitawilliams9062 100% agree
Just watching this vid, even tho 2 yrs old ... because Albums v Folders is always a mystery that I come back to from time-to-time. Wanted to share a little hack I recently learned about ... since many people (like me) find it frustrating that pics that are set to Albums **STILL LIVE IN LIBRARY** (aka for OGs ... Camera Roll). The hack is to create a Smart Folder which has THREE criteria: [1) Photo is not hidden; 2) Album is not Any; 3) Photo is not video] ... this results in a Smart Folder where what you will see pics that dont otherwise live in an Album. I find this VERY USEFUL:)
Excellent suggestion on the Smart Album @chumbawumba3617!
I did the same thing, except I didn't exclude videos! I shall add that to the criteria!
Now if only @Apple would sync Smart Albums with the photos inside among iCloud Photos. That would be an excellent improvement!
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Thanks for the information regarding the folders not being able to be populated by pre-existing albums. I was driving myself crazy trying to figure out how to make it happen. Hopefully Apple gets this remedied soon. It makes no sense whatsoever to not be able to just drag and drop.
I know! You would think it would be that easy! Apple definitely has room for improvement! Thanks so much for watching @Gordon Shkurhan! I appreciate the support!
Great work dude! Keep up the hard work. Also congrats on hitting 1,000 subs!
Thanks man! Hope is to get content out on a weekly basis, but hard to squeeze it all in! You'll be next at that 1,000 mark! Keep it up!
Wonderful!! Just subscribed. I feel like I am taking a class. It’s nice for those who have minimal technology background. So thank you for sharing your skills.
You're very welcome @MARY LEBEAU! I appreciate that so much!
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Thank you!, you saved me hours!!
So happy this was able to help @N.o.p 22! Thanks so much for watching! I appreciate the support!
I had wondered for sometime why I could not see my folders and albums broken down on my iPad as they are on my MacBook Pro. Not only did you show me how to expose the albums, you also showed me how to create new folders on the iPad without having to go back to my MacBook Pro. Thank you!
Excellent. Thank you
You're very welcome @LaNeita Williams! Thanks so much for watching! I appreciate it!
Thanks so much! What a great tutorial!!!!!!
You're very welcome @Linda Cooke! I hope it was helpful!
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Thank you so so much for this video. I have always struggled to figure this out on my own ( I end up getting it done but have no idea what I did to accomplish it) you have shown me a lot of great information.
Great tutorial here...same as your other tutorials...really nice. By the way, even though it seems to bother some people, I think it's nice when you include pictures of your family and provide a bit of back story...I hope you will keep doing that.
I appreciate the support @ThePurpleUFO! When watching tutorials, I believe it's important to have some type of context to how the photos are being used and what better way to demonstrate it than by using real life examples in a real world scenario! I do have a lot of photos of my family, so they are automatically volunteers for me. :-)
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@@Learnwithjoel Exactly right about the context being really helpful. I subscribed already...and appreciate your videos.
Thanks Joel brilliant video, exactly what I was looking for , so well made, and easy to follow , 😊
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Thanks great detailed informative video
I'm happy my video was helpful @Joey Joey!
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Great , many thanx
You are welcome!
o g thank you SO much for making this video. My pic searching is driving me crazy!
You're very welcome @Terri Allshouse! I'm happy this was helpful!
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once again Joel nails it!
I appreciate you and your kind words @Michael Daly Artist!
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If you move and/or folders, do they sync with iPhone?
thank you
You’re very welcome @Dong DongDong! I’m happy it was helpful! Thanks for watching and I appreciate the support!
Is there a way to keep photos in albums and folders only so you don’t see them in the all photos area at all? I can make albums and folders and was hoping to see them deleted from the all photos section. It’s like when you make folders in your email and then they are not longer in the inbox. Please advise. Thank you!
Yes. Select Photos in the photo app, use share button, choose save in files, choose the location and give the folder a name.
Go back to the photo app and delete the photos.
Thanks
Thank you so much! I'm happy it was helpful!
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I watched this video to see how to move albums into folders haha. Apparently you cannot. Thanks for the clear explanation ❤
I love your dads timber framing boring machine. I have one too.
I think that tool is my Grandpa's! Nice call out @byron buchanan! I'll let him know!
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If you put photos into an album, does that take up more room on iPad because they are still in your library? Thanks. Also, If you delete from library, that deletes them from that album you put them in too, correct?
Great questions @cindyfornataro8004!
Placing a photo from the library into an Album does not duplicate the photo and take up more space on your device. It is only reference the file.
You are correct that if you delete a photo from the library it will then be removed from the album.
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After creating a folder an adding the album in. The album i first made is still in the albums ... if i delete that one, the one i just created in the folder will stay or will it be deleted too?
My advice is to use the File app. In practice. Select photos from the Photo app-share button-save in Files-on your device or in icloud drive- (eventually make a folder, it can also later. A folder in a folder also possible ) OK-go back to the Photo app-delete the photos you just used- (also the bin!) the photos are now in folders
Have used Albums for several years on my iPad. How do I move photos within an album ?
Hi @Robert Knorr!
While in the Album, you should be able to touch and hold and then quickly move the photo by dragging to a different location. It will take a little practice to get the timing and technique down.
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I’m hoping you can help. I see your ‘+’ sign to add a folder within an album, but I don’t have that. How can I make subdivided folders in my album?
Hi @eschdaddy!
I'm thinking you need to create a folder first to see the "+" sign.
If you're on your iPad and if you touch "All Albums" on the left, do you then see the "+" sign in the top?
@@Learnwithjoel yep, found the difference between album and folder.
@@Learnwithjoel WOW! I finally found out how to create an album. It doesn't mention. in the UA-cam, selecting All Albums to display the '+". Another thing that I've spent 48 hours on is this. How do you store stuff on your iPad without retaining it in iCloud??? (I've got lots more room on my iPad than in iCloud and I don't want to spend more money
@@SolihullRog I understand completely your frustration. The file app is the solution. Open the photo app and select a few (or many it doesn’t matter) photos. Go to the share button and find and then you can store the stuff on your iPad. (save on your iPad or something like that)
Now you delete the photos in the photo app, don’t forget to delete the bin of the photo app.
Your photos are now only on your iPad.
Wince you make a folder how to defeat pictures but they stay in folder?
Hi @Thumb Print! I'm guessing you're asking "Once you make a folder, how do you delete pictures but have them stay in a folder"?
If that's what you looking for, Albums can only go into folders and if you then delete a photo out of an album, it still is in the library, but it you delete it out of the library it will delete it out of the album as well.
I hope this helps! Thanks for watching and I appreciate the support!
How can I add photos from a shared album into an album?
You left out critical information. Using your example, would it have been necessary to rename every shop photo something like “shop-001”, “shop-002”, “shop-003” in order to be able to find them with the search tool, OR is the app smart enough to recognize the images by the content?
Hi @Steve Hines! Great observation! I probably could have expanded more on the search as that could probably be a whole video on it's own!
It is not necessary to rename every shop photo or really any photo, however the search doesn't always find what you're looking for.
The Photos app certainly has gotten better with time using it's algorithms to recognize content like: food, dogs, beaches, trees, flowers and simple concepts like that, but it's still not 100% accurate.
My workflow for me personally is that I use Capture One as my primary editing tool and then I export all of the photos out of there to then import into Apple Photos so everything is accessible on all of my devices.
Thanks so much for watching! I appreciate the support!
@@Learnwithjoel do you use Capture One to add key words? I saw that on the screen briefly and would love to be able to use metadata and search instead of albums.
My problem is adding picture from the Recent album to another album. But after doing that, those pictures are still in the Recent. Now i’m confused if I already added those pictures to an album. I don’t want to see the pictures that I already added to another album in the Recent folder. I can’t just delete the pictures in the Recent folder, because it will delete that copy even on other albums and that is dangerous.
Hi @Pinoy Mukbang Pro! I totally agree that it could be a little more simple with the relationship of albums to recents and library in such.
I think of it pretty much this way. Any photo that is not in an album will be deleted from all locations and devices. When you add a photo to a regular album, it's just referencing it as a shortcut to the actual photo that lives in the Library, Recents, Imports, People and Places.
When you add a photo to an album you can freely delete it from the album and it will remain in all other locations. But if you delete that photo from the library, recents, imports, people, or places, it will removed from everywhere! So be careful! :-)
Maybe they'll change this concept in upcoming software updates, but for now, this is how it is. Hope this helps clarify a little! Thanks so much for watching and I appreciate the support!
How do you make an Album “Private”, needing a Password to view?
Hi @ Suzie Cruz!
This would be a nice addition for Apple to add, as I think they sometimes think everyone in the world uses Apple and has an Apple ID account...
As of the moment, there is no way currently that i'm aware of to be able to password protect and share a private album.
The current alternatives are using Shared Albums in iCloud Photos. I'll link a video below that talks about them. Shared albums gives you the ability to share privately with someone by their email address, but it needs to be an Apple ID. There is also an option to share an album via a link to view, however anyone that gets the link would be able to see all of the photos.
iCloud Photo SHARED ALBUMS - GET STARTED with sharing photos with ANYONE on ANY DEVICE!
ua-cam.com/video/vU0MRfm2utI/v-deo.html
Hope this helps a little! Thanks for watching and I appreciate the support!
@@Learnwithjoel ... I would never share this album, if you know what I mean 🙄
@@NEILZEE11 LOL...I hear ya!
What if I create an album and then delete from photos does is it gone?
Hi @YR 91!
If you create an Album and put a photo in there, and then delete the photo from the main library, it will the delete it from that album too, so be careful.
Any photo/video within an album is just a reference to the actual file that lives in the main library.
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Photos seems to be an "endless splatter" system. I need a system where initially every photo uniquely exists in only one of a finite set of folders.
I hear ya @Eric Lee!
There are options to keep pictures in a file folder structure and just reference them into Apple Photos. This would give you the ability to keep your file system to a set of folder the way you want organized.
I actually have an upcoming video related to this topic, so stay tuned!
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Thanks for your tutorials. I have an Inquiry (If I may). I added a load of photos, to the Hidden, all of a sudden, I cannot retrieve my hidden photos, It’s not even, showing Hidden, on the list; anymore. Thanks!
You're very welcome @FairyFreak 63!
By default the Hidden Photo Album is turned off.
On your iPhone or iPad, navigate to:
Settings > Photos > Hidden Albums
Toggle that on and then you should see the Hidden photos/videos in the Apple Photos App.
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SUPER THANKS! Thank you, so much again, for your speedy response! It’s highly appreciated. Take care! Yes, I will share and also, If anyone, needs assistance, on this topic, I will recommend, your channel. Thanks, so much! Actually, I did, just toggle it, looked for it again, but, again, I didn’t see it, as you were writing, your message, to me, just now. I’m going back, to see, If it went through or not.
@@Learnwithjoel Yes! Your the man! It worked, It just took awhile to kick in, but, I’ve got all my photos back. Thanks again Joel! Take care!
@@fairyfreak63 You're very welcome! Thanks for the support!
@@fairyfreak63 Great to hear it worked! Happy to help!
Can you change the cover photo of the album?
Yes. Just press and hold on an image within an album, and then select, “make key photo”
Wow that intro screams Dad :’)
Hey @Salmon60! You nailed it! I'm definitely a Dad! :-)
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For me the by far biggest wish: In the photo app moving photos to albums and folders instead of copying the photos. Now it is only possible to copy a photo to an album or folder and always there will be one in the library. Not one of the frustrations, it is THE BIGGEST FRUSTRATION.
Why Apple don’t let you the choice •to move or to copy•?
Hey @Patje Kluivert!
I agree, it does get a little confusing!
I would like to clarify a few things though. When you import photos into Apple Photos or take a picture with your iPhone or iPad, the original file gets saved to the "Library". Now if you add a photo to an album, it does not copy or move it. It's merely referencing the original photo that it's the library.
Therefore if you try to delete a picture from an album it gives you two choices. 1: To remove the photo from just from that album. 2: To actually delete the photo from the album which would also delete it from the Library.
If you delete a photo or video from the library or or any pretty much any other location like the categories under the "Media Types", it will delete that file from everywhere including the manual albums you created.
So just know that if you put a photo/video into a manually created album, it does not duplicate, move, or copy the file. It's just referencing it to the original one in the library.
I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching and the continued support! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
@@Learnwithjoel Hey Joel, thanks a lot for the explanation. Very helpful. But there are two different albums. Shared albums and normal albums. Shared albums make a big difference. When you use shared albums and you share the shared album with nobody, it makes a clear difference compared to a ‘normal’ album. When i add a photo from the library in a shared album (share only with myself) then you have the same photo in the library and the shared album. Now the big difference. When i remove the photo from the library, the photo (or the reference, but that doesn’t matter) will only stay in the shared album.
I try this different times and definetely this works.
When you think about it, it is very strange. Because the photo, orginal in icloud, is deleted in the library but still in the shared album. The photo is an icloud photo. Add the photo to a shared album made the photo a non-icloud photo?
How do you alphabetize your albums in IPad Pro
I love how they made it super long
Seriously I like your dads shop better. A man’s man workshop.😊
Three years later and still can’t add existing albums to folders. This is really frustrating, I’m fully iPad but have regrets now. , when will iPads actually be able to replace a laptop?
Can one move albums between folders?
I know for a fact you can within Apple Photos on a Mac @Jot Singh, but I have yet to find a way to do it on an iPhone or iPad.
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I am an android user for past 10 - 12 yrs , this time I thought to upgrade to iPhone but after listening to all this hustle 😅 ( managing photos and videos ) , I am dropping my idea to buy iPhone, i think I should stick to Samsung only !!
I am a person who keep 10000... of photos and videos in my device and keep moving them on my windows pc
In switching from android to ios , I have to move many Albums from my pc to iPhone, I don't think that will be easy
Can I move multiple albums ( photos and videos ) to iPhone from iTunes ?? Will it show the same arrangement in ios as same as in my pc ( like organized manner) or photos/videos organized in my pc ??
Great video, by putting them in albums will this free up space/storage ?thank You
Working with albums in the photo app is not very handy. When you put a photo from the photo library to an album, the photo will stay in the photo library and makes only a copy. Select the photo or photos and use the share button. Click on save in files, choose location and give the folder (where the photos will be) a name. When the photos are in the file app, delete the photos in the photo app. Also check the bin.
@@Kluivertnr1 Thank you so very much for responding back to me with great advice, I appreciate it.
@@DHSFEMA With great pleasure.
Three years later using new newest iPads and you still can't move a photo album into a folder in the Apple Photos app.
I agree @mustang607!
BUT there is a Hope! I have iOS Beta installed on my iPhone and iPad and you can move albums into folders now! It's about time!
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My photos is nothing like this. I don't have a sidebar.
Hey @barry nicholas!
What model iPad do you have and more importantly, what iOS are you currently running?
You can check in: Settings > General > About
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@@Learnwithjoel Ipad Air, running 12.5.5
Slidebox lets you move existing albums
Hey @Green On C!
Slidebox looks like a pretty slick app. I've never heard of it before! It's too bad it's another monthly subscription once you reach 10K photos or more, but non the less, looks like a nice utility!
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@@Learnwithjoel there’s a way to bypass the limit - it only counts photos that you move into albums in the “Organized” section of the app. If you keep rotating and don’t keep 10k pix in a single album, it works pretty well
My biggest beef is that Apple will not Alphabetize my 50+ albums. Sure I can spend hours doing g it manually but gee they somehow managed to alphabetize my contacts!!!🧐Apple can be so frustrating, and I don’t want to switch to Android I just want Apple to make more sense! (( and 3 yrs later, Apple still has not done this))
I hear ya @123craftygal! It can be very annoying!
Do you have a Mac by chance?! If you do you can actually sort your Albums within Apple Photos and it will sync to your iPad and iPhone!
If this is the case, just "Right Click" on "My Albums" on the left side within Apple Photos and you will have three options to sort:
By Name
By Oldest First
By Newest First
I hope that helps!
I hoping for some big updates to Apple Photos soon!
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I need a better demonstration
Hi @Baby Irene!
Is there something specific you're looking for to learn?
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Hands down, Apple products encompass the least intuitive, most cumbersome and expensive bunch of proprietary nonsense I've ever dealt with in my life. If you'd enjoy having a car with a moving, hidden fuel tank cap that once located only accommodates one brand of gasoline, than Apple is for you.
The worst tech purchasing decision of my life was buying an Apple product and it's one I won't make again.
Hey @David Koloc!
Not all technology is created equal, nor is it it for everyone! Apple has great reselling options so maybe you get some good cash for your devices that you don't want!
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Way to fast for me to follow what you are doing and saying,
I really don’t care about you & fiancé, where you’re living, etc. Please , give us a break & cut to the chase. PlusSLOW DOWN !
Hey @Mickey! I hear ya...sometimes I get sidetracked in stories and such! I hope you find some value in content, and if not no worries! Thanks for watching!
APPLE SUCKS
Hey @Green On C! I think it's a relative to ones experience with any device and software. One of my brothers would surely agree with you.
Anything in particular that you're not a fan of?
Did you really just take a full minute to talk about stuff we don't care about and doesn't contribute to your content?
Hey @C W!
I personally believe that having a back story behind the concept or topic of a video could be relatable to someone and possibly help. I'm sorry the first minute wasn't relevant to you, but hopefully some of the other video was.
I encourage people to use Chapter markers and speed controls if wanting to pass topics like that. :-)
I hope that helps! Thanks for watching, I appreciate the support!