Questions about ios photos and file system

Submitted by Berthendesign t3_126wooo in iphone

Ive never had an apple device. Im tempted to buy the iphone 14 pro but i need to know about ios from apple users.

I need to upload photos to social media a lot, for work. Is it true there is no camera album?

Sometimes i have photos on the phone for a month or more and theb post them. Do i really need to scroll through random memes, screen shorts , images from whatsapp and facebook to find the photo i want?

Often i also male designs on illustratoe or photoshop on my computer, send that to the phone and share it on social media.

Ive heard its a pain in the ass to share photos to other apps? Ive heard the sndroid file system is much better but ive never found the details of how it workd on ios.

Can anyone with experience help?

I need good photos for a small family business we have, but if its such a pain ti find photos and or share photos from my PC (not mac) to the phone and then instagram i might just get another phone.

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nmdrio t1_jec0ovx wrote

iOS is a pain in the ass regarding photos.

  1. You need iTunes if you want to copy photos FROM the PC to the iPhone. if you want to copy photos from the iPhone to PC, it's easier, no need for iTunes, just use File Explorer.
  2. Grouping photos is a mess because you don't have a separate "Camera" album and a "Whatsapp" album , for example, like on Android. This means all photos will appear on your camera roll. You can go to Whatsapp and de-activate the option to show Whatsapp photos in the camera roll, but they will be accessible only in the Whatsapp app, there is no separate Whatsapp photo folder. So if you want to copy all whatsapp photos from the phone to the PC, bad luck, you have to select them manually...

All in all... Android is much easier to use, has a better file manager and all the photos are saved in the corresponding folder. iOS programmers had a brainfart when they created the Photos app.

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ajd103 t1_jecegck wrote

Haven't used any iOS in years and just got flashbacks when you mentioned iTunes *shutters*

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manueldigital t1_jedir0d wrote

This is just plain bullshit. @OP: WhatsApp saved photos are saved in a dedicated WhatsApp album.

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nmdrio t1_jedpand wrote

On iOS, only the photos you MANUALLY save are stored in the Whatsapp album. That means you have to click every picture and save it. Time consuming and frustrating.

On Android, every picture you RECEIVE(not manually save, like on iOS) is stored(automatically) in the Whatsapp folder so it is very easy to copy all the photos on the PC, for example.

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manueldigital t1_jedpvsw wrote

and who is manually saving photos on a fucking PC? are you kidding me?

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nmdrio t1_jeefa1h wrote

Learn to read first.

On Android, all photos received from Whatsapp are stored automatically in the Whatsapp folder, making it very easy to copy to the PC.

On iOS, its shows ALL the pictures in the Camera roll and thus it clutters all your images because they mix the photos taken with the Camera with the pictures you receive from Whatsapp.

If you want a separate folder only for Whatsapp photos, you can go to settings and turn off "Save in Camera Roll" and then the whatsapp photos will not show in camera roll anymore. But if you want them saved in the Whatsapp folder, you must do it manually, for each individual photo, which sucks.

I'm not an Android fanboy, I have an iPhone 13 Pro right now, and yes, sometimes iOS really sucks and is limited in functionality.

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manueldigital t1_jedphi4 wrote

i'm sorry, little android fanboy - whether WhatsApp Photos need to be saved manually, or that's happening automatically, depends on your setting you set in the WhatsApp application.

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manueldigital t1_jecmpdu wrote

of course you can create an album that only holds photos taken with the iphone itself.

this thread is hilarious - only little android fanboys who know nothing about apple devices commenting and jerking each other off 😂

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manueldigital t1_jecn0r8 wrote

also: "file system" is such a generic term. to really evaluate if an iphone fits your workflows, one needs to look in detail at your specific needs. i am sure there is always a way, otherwise how would you think people use their phones while being pissed because it is so "bad"?!

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danielread89 t1_jedarui wrote

You can create albums on your photos app and store images in albums to easily find later.

For transferring files back and forth from phone to pc i use iCloud. Very easy tap share on the photo or file and hit save to files n save it to your iCloud Drive. U can go to iCloud.com from ur pc and all your files are there to download.

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VI-loser t1_jedo98v wrote

> U can go to iCloud.com from ur pc and all your files are there to download.

I'm happy to see someone mentions it.

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IllustriousBrick1980 t1_jebyzeu wrote

well yeah there’s is no dedicated camera album, but you can just search for whatever model of iphone you have and it will pop out a list of every photo taken with that model of phone

sharing files has never been an issue for me. if you got a macbook just use airdrop to send it directly. if you have a windows computer then you g-drive/onedrive/dropbox/etc. then you’ll probably have to save the image file to Photos cos most social media apps wont accept uploads directly from the Files app

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VI-loser t1_jedpgut wrote

I have no idea what people are complaining about.

In Photos you can create as many albums as you like. If you don't organize your photos into albums then, yeah scrolling through the library of all the photos will be a PITA. But even then, they'll be organized by year and month.

I can select the photos I want and then I have several options about how to move them somewhere else.

Airdrop to a Mac or other Apple device.

Mail them or send them in a text message.

Move them via WhatsApp.

Or download them to Google Drive.

Someone else mentioned iCloud already. Your photos are automatically uploaded there and you can easily access them through a PC web browser.

I also have iXpand meaning I have a SanDisk thumb drive I can put into my phones lightening port.

Why people are talking about iTunes is a mystery to me. iTunes went away years ago.

You may even have an app for your camera. I have a Nikon app that allows me to upload Gigs worth of photos. I don't use it because there are so many other options.

Other than the iXpand, all this is done via WiFi or Cellular.

You don't say what social media you have to upload the photos to, but I've done it to Craigslist, Zillow, Reddit and others I don't recall, through the Safari browser.

You say you want to share photos from your PC to the phone and then to Instagram, I'm baffled by that sequence. How did you get the photos to the PC to begin with? Why can't you go straight to Instagram from there?

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OkStatement9823 t1_jebfkud wrote

You can’t send files back to iPhone but you can make a trick, you can download iTunes on your computer, download chrome on your iPhone, download some random thing from chrome,the use iTunes file sharing to share all types of files between the devices

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Berthendesign OP t1_jebz1wy wrote

Hello. Thanks. What fo you mean you cant send files back to iphone?

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OkStatement9823 t1_jebbnwf wrote

You can just connect the phone to pc and in windows explorer should be the phone internal storage, the you can copy the images (videos too)

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