Is the new photos app actually an improvement…?
It’s that time of year when we crave organization. After putting away Christmas decorations and decluttering our homes, there’s one area that often gets overlooked: our camera roll.
Professional photo organizer Casey von Stein, also known as Miss Freddy, shared her top advice for taking control of your camera roll.
Benefits of Organizing Your Photos
Casey is passionate about organizing photos and highlighted the benefits. “When our photos are organized, the main thing is that we can actually use them. We can do fun things with them. We can put them in books, use them in a digital frame, in gifts, and get our stories preserved for our family to enjoy,” she said.
Tip 1: The Daily Delete
Casey’s first tip is to adopt the habit of the daily delete. “This is a new habit to try in the new year that will help you take control of your camera roll. We have so much junk coming in. If you can start this habit of once a day reviewing your camera roll and making decisions in the moment about what can stay, what gets hearted because it’s your favorite, and what can go,” she explained.
Casey also suggested an extra credit tip: “Just type today’s date into the search bar, no year, and you can go all the way back. Review everything that happened on that day in time. You’ll get to see all those old fun memories and clean up at the same time.”
Tip 2: Get Search Savvy
The second tip is to get search savvy. “There is so much technology available to us right in our photos apps, and we need to harness that as our collections grow to be tens and tens of thousands. We need a quick way to find things,” Casey said.
She advised using search terms effectively: “You can search by a person, a place, a thing, a date, the type of camera that took the photo, a word of text that might be on the screenshot. Take it to the next level by combining search terms.”
Fixing the iOS 18 Update
Many people have expressed their dislike for the new photos iOS 18 update, but Casey offers a quick fix. “The new version is so great once you customize it to work for you. Scroll to the bottom of the photos app on the iPhone and click customize and reorder. Turn everything off on this screen, except for these four: pinned collections, albums, media types, and utilities,” she explained.
She emphasized the importance of pinned collections: “Pinned collections is the star of this new redesign. This is what helps you modify the photos app to make it exactly what you need.” Casey went on, “So you’re going to go to your pinned collection section and hit modify and then make this exactly what you want it to be. I recommend pulling favorites all the way up to the top because we always need to access our favorites quickly. But then you can add different albums.”
Find more from Casey on Instagram @miss.freddy.
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