How to Organize Your Photos on iPhone

If you’re an iPhone user who takes photos regularly, you probably have thousands of photos in your library, taking up tons of storage space. That’s when organization becomes essential. Fortunately, there are several ways to do it.

Before you start: Some general space-saving tips

While we’ve broken down specific ways you can organize your photos, we also wanted to give you a few space-saving tips to get you started:

1. Always review your photos. It’s easy to take a few pictures and forget about them, but those “few pictures” can add up. To avoid a future backlog, get into the habit of looking at your photos after you’ve shot them. Quickly decide which ones to remove.
2. Don’t keep duplicate photos. Taking a bunch of similar photos can give you many options, but if the photos are almost identical, you don’t need them all. Get used to it delete duplicate iPhone photos to reduce storage overhead.
3. Optimize your iPhone storage. If you go to Settings > Apps > Photos on your iPhone, you’ll see an option called iCloud Photos below iCloud. Once activated, your iPhone will automatically upload and store your full-size photos in iCloud.

Now that you know how to save space on your iPhonelet’s check the organization of your images in more detail.

Organize photos on your iPhone into albums

Let’s say you want to organize your photos into albums. This is the simplest method of organizing photos, as you can group photos covering multiple locations, dates, people or events.

Here’s how you can create a new photo album:

1. Launch the Photographs app, scroll past your photo library, and tap Album. If you can’t find Albums here, scroll to the bottom and tap it Customize and reorder. Now, select it Album.

2. In the upper left corner of the screen, tap Create and choose New Album.

3. Name your album, and tap the plus (+) icon to start adding images to your album. When you’re done, hit it Done.

4. If you want to choose an image to represent your entire album, tap it Edit Key Photo. So, choose an image and tap Done.

To further organize your albums, you can also group multiple albums into folders. For example, if you take photos of different projects for your work, you may want to create a “Work” folder to sort all the work albums.

1. Head to the Album section again, and touch Create in the upper left corner.

2. Choose New Folder and then name your new folder.

3. Then, tap the plus (+) Sign in, select all the albums you want to add to your folder, and then tap Add.

4. Finally, touch Done.

If there are photos on your phone that you forgot to add to an album:

1. Go to your main photo grid and tap Select in the upper right corner.

2. Select the photos you want to add.

3. Touch the ellipse (…) button in the bottom-right corner of your screen.

4. Select Add to Albumand choose the album where you want to put the photos.

Alternatively, you can scroll past your photo library by tapping Albumand select the album to which you want to add the photos. So, simply touch the plus (+) sign in, select the image you want to add, and click Add.

From now on, whenever you need to find photos from a multi-day event, you should be able to go into your Photos app and see the appropriate album!

How to organize photos on your iPhone by name

The next best way to organize photos on your iPhone is by person. This method makes it easy to find pictures of yourself, friends or family.

Modern versions of iOS can recognize faces, allowing your iPhone to detect and arrange your photos by person automatically. These unique faces are recognized as individuals, allowing the iPhone to group photos of that person together, regardless of date or event, or even if they are in a group photo.

However, organizing your photos by name or person requires some setup. Here’s how to do it:

1. Scroll past your photo library and tap People (o People & Animalsif pets are detected in your gallery).

2. You’ll see thumbnails for each person your iPhone recognizes. Select one of those faces, and you will see all the photos that contain that person.

3. You may also notice that some people’s faces don’t have names. By name, select the face and tap Name this person. Then, type their name and click Done.

Once a person is named, all future photos with their face will be tagged and searched by their name, making it easier to find them at any time.

If you want to create an album for a specific person, you can do so by selecting their face and tapping Select in the upper right corner. So, choose Select alland touch the ellipse (…) button in the bottom right corner of the screen. Finally, select Add to Album and touch the plus (+) sign up to create an album for them.

How to organize photos on your iPhone by location

The iPhone Photos app also sorts your photos by location if you travel a lot. But, like the previous method, it must be installed first.

When you take a photo with your iPhone, the picture’s metadata automatically records the photo’s location, as long as you have it Rental Services enabled for the Camera app.

Here we go how to manage Location Services on your iPhone: :

1. Open the Settings App.

2. Go to Privacy & Security > Location Services. Make sure the toggle at the top is turned on.

3. Now, scroll down and select Camera App.

4. Make sure While Using the App is chosen.

Now that this setting is activated, your iPhone will automatically geotag new images. It will then sort these location-based photos into a pre-made album.

To view your photos:

1. Scroll past your photo library and find it Pinned collections. So, touch Map. If you don’t see it, you may need to modify your Pinned Collections. To do that, just tap modify and touch the plus (+) sign next to it Map under Suggestions heading

2. On the map, tap the thumbnail of the place you want to see. You can see all the pictures from that place.

Filter Photos on your iPhone

Sometimes, you may want to see only screenshots in an album or only images that you have edited. Instead of manually scrolling through each photo, you can use the Photos app’s built-in filtering options. Just go through your photo library, tap Albumand open the album you want to filter.

Then, tap the hang out icon and select it Filter. A context menu will appear with six options: All items, Favorites, Photographs, Edited, Videosand Screenshots. All you have to do is choose the type of photo you want to see.

When you are done and want to remove the filter, touch the icon that replaces the classification icon, select it Filterand choose All items. This isn’t just limited to albums – you can also filter your entire gallery by following the same steps as above. Just make sure it’s in your main photo grid instead!

Sort Your iPhone Photos

By default, the Photos app sorts images by the date they were captured. Essentially, this means that photos are sorted based on their original timestamp, even if you receive them via AirDrop or save them from an app.

While it can be helpful in some cases, it can make it difficult to find the photos you have taken recently, especially if you tend to save a lot of images. Fortunately, you can choose to keep your photo library sorted by their original timestamps or choose to have them appear at the end of your timeline.

To do that, scroll through your library and tap the hang out icon just appears. A context menu will immediately appear with two options: Order by Recently Added and Order for Data Capture. Choose old if you want your most recent photos to appear at the bottom of your library. On the other hand, choose the latter if you want your library to be organized by the date you took the respective photos instead of when you saved them in your library.

When it comes to albums, you can also sort your images Older first, Newest firstor in a Custom order. To do this, go to the album you want to sort and simply follow the same steps described above. Next, choose your preferred sorting option.

With the quick tips and tricks mentioned above, you’ll be well on your way to organizing photos on your iPhone! Doing so will not only help you declutter your gallery, but it will also help you find photos much faster in the Photos app.