Moving photos

do you mean not longer seeing the photo in the library? No, that’s not a feature of having the library which displays all images.

There is no change and while I don't read the future very well, I would not expect there to be any on this question, ever. The entire organising principle of Photos (and its predecessors) is that everything is in the library, and albums contain links to those items in the library. Changing that would be, at heart, a whole new application. If that is not what you want then the solution is to find an app that works as you wish, not to hope endlessly that they'll change this one to suit you.

Rockmusicbrainshake wrote:

So in the old days - you took a lovely photo with your camera and had it printed out. Then, you would build your album - now called a folder - with your favourite pics of your family or holidays so you could happily and easily show the photos to bored family and friends but you knew where the photos were and they were safe

now we have progressed so much we all have to carry around thousands of images on your phone which you have to scroll through to find on tiny images in break neck speed and troll through things that are not relevant or interesting to anyone other than you as you can’t keep them somewhere safe and easy without having to click through many more times to find the image

i do so love how technology moves on and makes all of our lives so much easier

Huh? I put my pictures in albums in much the same way that the Public Library puts books in sections. Don't you? I mean, really-- you scan through the entire Photos Library to find a picture? You don't use the Search field? You don't put pictures in albums-- like everybody used to do and like we still do electronically?

I have an album for the pictures I took yesterday. It's in a folder with other albums of pictures I've taken this year. I have an album for pictures of my granddaughter, and it has some of the same pictures for the year folder, because, like the card catalog at the Public Library, there can be a reference to a picture in multiple places.

If you choose not to take care of your pictures by organizing them into albums and folders, I don't see the need for your sarcasm.

Albums are not called folders now. Albums in Photos are called just that: Albums. And like their hardcopy predecessors, they hold photographs. Folders don't. They can contain Albums or nested folders, also containing albums. This is called organising. One album for your trip to the Zoo, one album for your trip to the beach, each nested in a folder called Summer 2023. Remember Photos is a database, and a DB is like a sewer: what you get out of it is entirely proportional to what you put into it.

No one is forcing you to do anything. You don't have to have images on your phone at all. If you have thousands of images on your phone that's your choice. If you have to scroll through tiny images, the that's your choice. The rest of us make them bigger, organise them into albums and folders or use the search. Amazing how quickly that helps.

Or you don't have to have thousands on there. You can have just a subset - your favourites maybe - and you can even swap them out for other collections, as you prefer. It's really not that difficult, millions of people have learned how to do it, I'm sure you could too. Or don't. Whatever. But the opportunity is there for you to make the most of this tool and it takes a special kind of truculence to see opportunity as a problem.

So, as muguy suggests, having the Public Library file a book in "History" and another in "Fiction" doesn't mean that they are no longer in the Library! This would not be progress!