While you may love or hate the iPhone's Photos app, it's the place where all
your photos end up either way. With iCloud's capabilities, it's an easy way
to keep track of your images across your Apple ecosystem. As the iPhone's
camera continues to make a name for itself, professional and amateur
photographers alike keep crawling back to Apple to capture their memories.
Here's a guide to help you better understand your iPhone's Photos app.
It's all in your 'Library'
When in your library, you can view your images by years, months, or days. If
you want to view everything in your library, you can select "All Photos." As
someone who doesn't keep many photos, I find it easier to see all my images
this way.
Within the app, there are countless ways to optimize your experience. Select
an image and go to the share button in the bottom left corner. Scroll down
and you'll find a long list of actions. Here you can hide the image, create
a slideshow, AirPlay to another device, create a Watch Face, or even print.
There are even more specific actions you can take like adjusting the date,
time, or location of the image, or assigning it to one of your contacts.
With so much to do in the app, it establishes less need to use other photo
apps.
Pro Tip: Did you know about the three-finger method to cut, copy, or paste
photos on your iPhone?
Relive past memories under 'For You'
See featured memories and your year in review in the 'For You' tab. You can
customize your memories by calling them something else or even feature less
of a specific person. At the bottom, you'll find photos shared with you from
other iOS users. It'll look something like, "From [insert contact name]."
Organize with 'Albums' Albums are a nice way to organize your images based
on a subject, image type, etc. To create an album, select the plus sign at
the top left corner of the screen. You can either create a new album, create
a new folder, or create an album to share with other iPhone users. To delete
an album, go to the Albums tab at the bottom and select "Edit" at the top
right corner of the screen. A red minus sign will appear at the corner of
each album. Tap the minus next to whichever album you'd like to delete.
People & Places
The app utilizes facial recognition to keep track of who is in your photos.
What's cool is that you can tap someone's image and you can see all of your
photos with them right in one place. You can assign their profile to a
contact or give them a special name.
The places feature captures the geographic location of your photos (those
taken on your phone). There's even a map where you can scroll through to see
where specific images were taken.
Media Types
Media Types breaks down your image library into categories. For example, I
can see that I have eight videos, 24 selfies, 11 photos taken in live mode,
four photos taken in portrait mode, and 12 screenshots. This would be
particularly useful for those with large libraries who are looking for
specific image types. It takes out the hassle of having to scroll through an
enormous amount of photos, especially if you can't remember exactly what
you're looking for.
Utilities
Under Utilities, you will find images that were AirDropped to you under
'Imports'. You can also find any hidden photos and those recently deleted.
The photos and videos under 'Recently Deleted' will take up to 40 days to be
removed from Photos forever.
'Search' through your collection
Search is like your in-app Google where you can type in to search for photos
with specific locations, people, categories, etc. Also, below the search
bar, you simply tap a location to find all your images there. Your 'Recently
Searched' will keep track of your search history in case you don't want to
forget photos you were looking for previously.
Running out of storage space for all your photos? Check out this flash drive
for iPhone, iPad, or Mac:
. SanDisk iXpand Flash Drive Luxe for iPhone and USB Type-C devices
By Allison McDaniel.
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