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I love the iPhone camera. I have largely stopped using my other cameras because the iPhone camera is just so convenient. However, the iPhone Photo App is extr

by steven2012 13y ago

I love the iPhone camera. I have largely stopped using my other cameras because the iPhone camera is just so convenient. However, the iPhone Photo App is extremely terrible. Everything exists in the Camera Roll, and you can't physically move them from there, so you have to search through the entire Camera Roll every time. I have 4000 photos and videos, and trying to find anything is impossible, to the point where I have given up. They have Albums, but those are merely pointers, so it doesn't really help organize the Camera Roll itself. Plus, you can't do simple things like see when the photo was taken, or search only for videos. You should be able to pull up a calendar, and see the number of photos on a per day, per month, or per year basis. It seems to be another example of an app that the developers themselves don't use extensively, otherwise they would fix these simple issues.

whichdan 13y ago
Same here. I have about half as many photos as you, but my iPhone is my only camera. It's very frustrating that my only option for photo management is to just remove old photos from my phone until I hit a sweet spot of maybe 500 or so. Is Android any better?
- colomon 13y ago
  I don't know of any automated solutions, but I routinely use QuickSSHd to wirelessly scp photos to my computer from my Android phone. It will also let you get a shell on the phone and delete the old photos.
- lucian1900 13y ago
  Yes, somewhat. The gallery shows both camera pictures and albums from Google+ Pictures. You can probably get a similar effect with the Google+ app on iOS and deleting pictures from your camera roll.
cmsj 13y ago
I don't think that's true, you can create more albums on the device and move photos to those albums?
- lysol 13y ago
  You can, but they stay in the central photo roll.
  - nicwolff 13y ago
    They stay in the "Photo Library", not the "Camera Roll", which is meant to hold just the photos you've taken since your last sync to iPhoto.
- brown9-2 13y ago
  You are essentially just tagging photos as being in a certain album, and the "Camera Roll" is always the view of all photos taken with the camera on the device.
nicwolff 13y ago
The Camera Roll stores only the pictures you've taken since your last sync to iPhoto. The intended (pre-Photo Stream) workflow seems to be: 1. Take picture with the phone -> iPhone's "Camera Roll". 2. Sync phone with iPhoto and delete pics from phone -> iPhoto's "Last Import". 3. Organize pics in iPhoto -> iPhoto's "Albums" and "Events". 4. Sync phone with iTunes, including pics -> iPhone's "Events". Note that iPhoto will automatically group pics into events by date, which along with the "Last 3 Months" and "Last 12 Months" albums giving you at least some ability to find photos chronologically. I'm not claiming that this is a good workflow, or that it was designed with the user's best interests in mind! Rather, it seems to be one of the many obvious and annoying inconveniences that show how much importance places on locking users into iTunes as their media-management tool. (The primary example of which is that Apple will sell you a giant hard drive in a WiFi backup appliance, and a WiFi->HDMI box that pipes content from your Mac to your TV... but not a media/backup server with HDMI and a giant hard drive, which is all we really want, right?)
sorthman 13y ago
Hi Steven, I recently released a new app that makes it easy to sort, organize and share your iOS photos by date and location. Photowerks scans your Camera Roll and displays your photos similarly to the Apple Photos app, but groups them by date taken or photo location. Features: • Quickly sort photos by date taken, city, state, country, camera make, or camera model. • View photos in a grid or list view. • Tap photo to view date taken and location (city, state) • Share photos via email, Facebook, Twitter (with photo captions listing photo date and location) • Create new albums in the Apple Photos app. • View photo details with standard pinch to zoom gestures and swipe to view previous/next photo. Here's the app store link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photowerks/id643351365?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photowerks/id643351365?mt=8 Price is US$.99. I'd love to hear your feedback. Thanks, Steve Orth

whichdan 13y ago

Same here. I have about half as many photos as you, but my iPhone is my only camera. It's very frustrating that my only option for photo management is to just remove old photos from my phone until I hit a sweet spot of maybe 500 or so. Is Android any better?

colomon 13y ago
I don't know of any automated solutions, but I routinely use QuickSSHd to wirelessly scp photos to my computer from my Android phone. It will also let you get a shell on the phone and delete the old photos.
lucian1900 13y ago
Yes, somewhat. The gallery shows both camera pictures and albums from Google+ Pictures. You can probably get a similar effect with the Google+ app on iOS and deleting pictures from your camera roll.

cmsj 13y ago

I don't think that's true, you can create more albums on the device and move photos to those albums?

lysol 13y ago
You can, but they stay in the central photo roll.
- nicwolff 13y ago
  They stay in the "Photo Library", not the "Camera Roll", which is meant to hold just the photos you've taken since your last sync to iPhoto.
brown9-2 13y ago
You are essentially just tagging photos as being in a certain album, and the "Camera Roll" is always the view of all photos taken with the camera on the device.

nicwolff 13y ago

The Camera Roll stores only the pictures you've taken since your last sync to iPhoto. The intended (pre-Photo Stream) workflow seems to be: 1. Take picture with the phone -> iPhone's "Camera Roll". 2. Sync phone with iPhoto and delete pics from phone -> iPhoto's "Last Import". 3. Organize pics in iPhoto -> iPhoto's "Albums" and "Events". 4. Sync phone with iTunes, including pics -> iPhone's "Events". Note that iPhoto will automatically group pics into events by date, which along with the "Last 3 Months" and "Last 12 Months" albums giving you at least some ability to find photos chronologically. I'm not claiming that this is a good workflow, or that it was designed with the user's best interests in mind! Rather, it seems to be one of the many obvious and annoying inconveniences that show how much importance places on locking users into iTunes as their media-management tool. (The primary example of which is that Apple will sell you a giant hard drive in a WiFi backup appliance, and a WiFi->HDMI box that pipes content from your Mac to your TV... but not a media/backup server with HDMI and a giant hard drive, which is all we really want, right?)

sorthman 13y ago

Hi Steven, I recently released a new app that makes it easy to sort, organize and share your iOS photos by date and location. Photowerks scans your Camera Roll and displays your photos similarly to the Apple Photos app, but groups them by date taken or photo location. Features: • Quickly sort photos by date taken, city, state, country, camera make, or camera model. • View photos in a grid or list view. • Tap photo to view date taken and location (city, state) • Share photos via email, Facebook, Twitter (with photo captions listing photo date and location) • Create new albums in the Apple Photos app. • View photo details with standard pinch to zoom gestures and swipe to view previous/next photo. Here's the app store link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photowerks/id643351365?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photowerks/id643351365?mt=8 Price is US$.99. I'd love to hear your feedback. Thanks, Steve Orth