All over the world Apple is considered a symbol of extreme prestige. It enjoys a fiercely loyal user base, and users continue to enjoy the innovative, helpful and extremely secure solutions that it provides for a wide range of its products. Despite so much glamour attached to the company, there are some problems also present, which Apple users might often come across.
One of the issues Apple device users might have faced is how to manage photos on their device. The photo they take is saved in the storage of their device and the storage capacity of the device gets filled up over time. Today we will try to explain some easy steps to manage photos on Apple devices that will help you in saving space and using it wisely.
Solution 1: Using the Photos App
When users click a photo with their iPhone camera, the photos get saved in the Photos app. Inside the Photos app, there are many default albums already made into which their photos get sorted into automatically. Users can easily search their photos by using the search feature. When the users turn on the iCloud Photo Library, their photos will be managed in the same way on all of their Apple devices.
The Photos app also offers a Favorite Album feature in which users can save all their favorite photos; it is also one of the best ways to manage photos. To add a photo to the Favorite Album, you need to
- Select a photo you want to add.
- Open the photo.
- Tap the heart icon at the bottom.
Solution 2: Set Up iCloud Photo Library
Apple users are often using up more than 1 devices from must be using devices like the iPhone, Apple TV, Mac, iPad etc. By using iCloud Photo Library, users can access all their photos on all of the Apple devices that they use. Users can sign up on all of their devices up the same Apple ID and easily set up iCloud. This leads to the saving of high-resolution, storage space hogging photos on the cloud and in return, users can free up storage space on their without deleting photos. One of the best features of the iCloud Photo Library is the Memories feature. This feature creates memories for you to look back and cherish. This feature also enables the users to share their albums with their family and friends easily.
How to Store photos in iCloud?
- Tap Settings | Your Name.
- Tap on iCloud | Photos.
- Select iCloud Photo Library.
- Turn on the Optimize iPhone Storage option. This feature makes use of extremely sophisticated technology to save the photos in their original size on iCloud, however, smaller peers of the same photos are saved in your device, which frees up valuable storage space. This option aids in storing the photos in small size and the original photos are saved in iCloud.
Solution 3: Create New Albums
The default albums are already present on the device but new albums can also be created by users. Making or creating a new album is the easiest way to organize photos according to the users’ needs. This process makes the whole task of finding and managing the photos a lot easier. And adding photos to the new album doesn’t mean that they will be deleted from the All Photos album. Also, keep in mind that although the photo might appear at several locations, in reality only a single copy of it occupies storage space.
How to create a new album?
- Open up the main album screen.
- Tap the (+) add sign on the left.
- Give the album your desired name. (You can rename it whenever you want)
- Select Save.
- Add photos of your choice. (For this you will have to visit the All Photos album and select the photos which you want to add to the album)
How to delete an album?
- Open the album which you want to delete.
- Select the red circle on the top of the album.
- A message box will appear to confirm that you want to delete the album.
- Select Delete.
Note: Keep in mind, that the album will be deleted but the photos that the album stored won’t get deleted because they are already saved in the All Photos album.
Solution 4: Use Apps to Manage Photos
- Everprix app: If we talk about photo management apps the first name that will come is the Everprix app. Users can easily install this app and use it.
- Flickr app: It is a popular photo app and offers advanced features. Users can also share and download photos by using this app.
Saving the photo by using the Flickr app
- Install the Flickr app.
- Select the photos which you want to save in Flickr.
- Select the arrow icon in the bottom and tap Save Image.
We have discussed many options that are available to manage photos on Apple devices. Each option has some pros and cons but the best option among all of them is using the iCloud Photo Library. Using it means any picture that is captured taken automatically gets uploaded to iCloud. Users stand to get 5GB of free storage space by default in iCloud Photo Library. Substantial amounts of storage space are also available, for which the users are required to subscribe to a plan which suits them.
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