How to determine if photos have been placed in albums

You can easily tell which Photos haven't been placed in an album with this smart album:

Do you have a Mac as well and are you using iCloud Photos to keep the Mac and iPhone in sync? Then do the test on your Mac with a smart album with the rule "Album is not any". This album will show you all photo you have not yet moved into an album.

On your iPhone you may want to mark the photos you have added to an album with the favourite heart ♡. Then you can see at a glance, if a photo is already in an album. This will work, if you only want to keep favorite photos in albums, to prevent the albums from becoming cluttered with mediocre photos.

Or add all new photos, that you want to distribute to albums to a temporary album "My Recents". Then select the photos that you want to add to albums in your own "My Recents" and remove the pht photo from My Recents, once it has been added to an album. From your own albums you can remove the photos, without removing them from the library and other albums.

I think this person is on an iPhone...

This worked great for me. Slidebox Photo Manager App: https://appsto.re/i6Ss8zD

léonie wrote:

Do you have a Mac as well and are you using iCloud Photos to keep the Mac and iPhone in sync? Then do the test on your Mac with a smart album with the rule "Album is not any". This album will show you all photo you have not yet moved into an album.

Brilliant léonie, I never knew that. Just spent an hour deleting or placing 495 photos into albums!

Now a smart album showing all photos in the wrong album would be useful 😂

No, the library shows all the images, all the time.

Feel free to give Apple feedback:

Product Feedback - Apple

I think you are more likely to get smart albums than change the way the library works.

Dang, I have this new forum where every device is stuffed into a single community. Thanks for the heads up.

I just lodged a complaint, and namedropped you, in the watercooler.

Keith Barkley wrote:

I just lodged a complaint, and namedropped you, in the watercooler.

That may get you a nasty letter from the hosts. 😉. But thanks.

Dang, I have this new forum where every device is stuffed into a single community

You have that forum too? Dang I thought it was just me...

I see albums that my phone has made but I don’t know what causes it or how to edit the albums.