In the midst of the digital age and with the iPhone advancing more and more in cameras, filling the camera with photos is too easy. And at the same time may end up drifting into real gallery chaos. For this reason, I decided to organize this application as best I can.
And while I’ve applied a lot of advice from experience, the truth is that the Apple forums can be a mine where you can find real diamonds in the form of organization. So I’ll tell you What are the best tips to always organize our memories.
iCloud, always iCloud
While I’m also a proponent of Google Photos, Amazon Photos, and many more that come to mind, my experience over the years makes me see that iCloud is the best option when it comes to an iPhone. Unsurprisingly, this is Apple’s own cloud.
Thus, I consider essential favor the cloud over the internal space and, considering that photos and videos are always what take me the most, I always choose the iPhone with the lowest capacity when it comes to renewing my mobile. However, that is another topic with other peculiarities.
The important thing here is always have access to your photos and know that they will never be lost. It doesn’t matter if the iPhone crashes or if we use the Mac or the iPad. Our photos will always be safe. Although, yes, you will have to go through the box every month. I have an Apple One plan, but here it’s a matter of personal preference to find the iCloud payment model that works best for them.
With contracted cloud, the priority is enable the “iCloud Photos” option from the iPhone. To do this, simply go to Settings > Pictures and activate the corresponding box (if it was not already activated before).
Create your own albums
It is true that iPhone automatically organizes photos into albums such as screenshots, portraits, WhatsApp, Twitter, etc. However, arranging them on our own is usually more efficient. A somewhat heavy task, but useful for locating our shots more quickly.
For example, if you are attending a birthday, you can add all photos and videos to a specific album for that birthday or to a generic album for that type of event. Ultimately it’s a matter of how you want to organize each one, but still try to differentiate the albums to make it easier to find the photos in question when searching.
Review “People” albums
Pursuing this objective of locate photos faster, I consider it very important to pay attention to the automatic albums that detect who is in the photos. If you go to the “People” album and never set it up, you’ll see a bunch of faces waiting to be tagged. tag them.
I have to say that in most cases it recognizes faces well, but you still have to be careful. Thus, it is important from time to time to enter these albums and explore the “Confirm photos” options, which will allow us to tell the system whether or not the people who appear in certain photos are the person who has been tagged by default.
And that’s how it’s possible to speed up finding moments based on who was in those snapshots. It will be enough to resort to the search engine of the ‘Photos’ application and write the name with which we will tag this person. Actually, You can also locate photographs in which multiple people appearideal for example if you want to find memories of this person and of you.
Beware of duplicate photos
One of the big new features of iOS 16 was the ability to delete or merge duplicate photos. And it’s often we tend to have multiple repeat photographs. Either because we took several shots of the same scene, received this photo several times, or because we were the ones who unknowingly downloaded it twice.
Just open the “Photos” app and in the “Albums” tab, go down to locate the “Duplicates” album. And once there, we can go to select photos individually or all at once to then merge them all and always keep the best quality. The advantage of this function is to be able to save space.
Enable camera location
Although we can understand that giving location permissions to an external application can be conflicting, especially when it is not used to provide specific functionality. However, the “Camera” app only collects data to locate our snapshots and thus make them more locatable.
In fact, there is an album in the ‘Photos’ app called ‘Places’ that you can scroll through a map see all the photographs taken across the planet. If you haven’t given these permissions to the “Camera” app, just go to Settings > Privacy and Security > Location > Camera and click on ‘When the application is used’. And if you want it to be even more precise, also activate the ‘Exact location’ box.
My two tips for not forgetting the memories
Let’s be honest, we often take pictures that we never look at again. We tend to immortalize moments that eventually die, no matter how many we have of them in our gallery. For this reason, I always resort to explore photos and videos from previous years. And for that, I have two tricks.
The first one you probably already know and that’s access the ‘For you’ tab from the ‘Pictures’ app. There are videos assembled automatically by iOS for different reasons. In my case, memories related to pets abound, but there are also certain events such as holidays or parties, which, thanks to location, can be easily detected by the iPhone.
Although if I tell you the truth, in the end I resort more to rudimentary technique of manually reviewing photos by date. For example, if today is March 23, I go to the search engine and type “March 23” to see all the photos and videos I’ve taken that day since I’ve been using the iPhone.
Obviously, life doesn’t always leave me the time to stop in detail to review each of the shots recorded 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and more years ago. However, I watch them from above. And the manual highlight of this trick comes with set a reminder that repeats every day to remember, when I have a few minutes off, to do that. And believe me, it’s a good way to remember the moments.
Bonus: two tips to improve our photographs
Although we can find many tips to improve our photographs and which have nothing to do with the organization of the gallery, I did not want to miss the opportunity to recommend two actions that are repeated until nausea in expert photography user forums and that in my own personal experience I can attest that they work.
The always-on grid
have a good framing on a photo it is fundamental. And yes, later you can always straighten the photo, but if we take a framed photo as standard, we will avoid losing a lot of detail.
‘Live Photos’ still active
Beyond the interesting effects provided by ‘Live Photo’, such as creating a long exposure effect and even a GIF, in the end, activating it also allows you to always choose the best time. If by default the iPhone did not choose the moment we wanted from the scene, we can modify it and choose the frame that corresponds to what we wanted to show.
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