iPhone & Trail Camera Photos
Whitetail Deer
All,
I am a relatively new iPhone user. I switched to iPhone in the last few years. I have been downloading my trail camera pictures through a card reader that connects to my phone. I want to be able save some pictures but don't need to keep 500 pictures of does on my phone. I have created some folders on my phone to save pictures of bucks that I might want to shoot or to watch for the future. The first time I did this, I put a few pictures in there I wanted to save and then deleted the pictures from my "All Photos" library. Now I know that this means all photos, regardless of where they are saved. My question is, how do I delete all of these these photos I don't want to delete but keep the ones I want to keep? I even copied the photos I wanted to keep and pasted them into another folder and that didn't work.
I wish I could help, but I don't know what to tell you. Apple or somebody needs to figure something out on the picture saving/storing thing.
I'm a picture freak, and I have a little over 100 gig of photos. . . . Family, fun, vacations, hunting, etc. Currently I keep them on my office computer where they are backed up to the Cloud. But, I also keep a hard copy on a zip drive in my safe deposit box. If my house burns down tomorrow, I can replace nearly everything except my pictures, which are precious to me.
Yes, I'm aware I'm crazy. But if I ever get old and decrepit, I'm going to enjoy my pictures of my family and adventures.
I wish I knew a better way to store everything
I probably can't help you, but I'll tell you how I keep the pictures I want. Sounds like you don't have cellular game cameras and neither do I. I swap out the cards and take them home and use a Mac book to go through them all and then I just airdrop the ones I want to keep to my phone. I don't have folders set up, but that would be a good idea. In the beginning I tried using one of those card readers and it was too frustrating for me. I am wanting to get cell cameras but I'm close to my woods and I'm pretty cheap;)
Matt,
I have no issues downloading them...I have an issue when deleting unwanted photos and filing a few for keeps.
Get an android, lfe is to short to mess with an iPhone.
I think you are not following what I am trying to do. I’m not going to sift through 600 pictures near my treestand looking for the pictures I want to save. I want to import all, get out and then look at them later.
I don’t need help importing, I need help separating pictures I want to delete from ones I want to keep once they are on my phone
You can also swipe your finger across a row of pics and the blue check mark will appear. Keep swiping and you’ll get more check marks. Then hit the trash barrel.
I think you are not following what I am trying to do. I’m not going to sift through 600 pictures near my treestand looking for the pictures I want to save. I want to import all, get out and then look at them later.
I don’t need help importing, I need help separating pictures I want to delete from ones I want to keep once they are on my phone
I edited some of the comments above, but basically here's what you need to do "swipe iphone into trash"
I just swap cards and do this crap at home on a real computer. Phones is phones.
I also swap cards and sort the photos on a laptop. I transfer all pics onto the computer, then sort/delete/etc from there when I have more time. Once I’m sure they all transferred, I reformat the card and it’s ready to put back in the camera. I then upload photos I want to share to the cloud. I don’t have an iPhone so I use google drive.
Actually meant to say I reformat the card when I put it back in the camera. I use 2 cards per camera and don’t interchange them.
I use an iPhone and card reader as well. When I load all the pics on my phone I obviously look at each photo. If I want to keep one I take a screen shot of it. At the end, I just delete the whole pile cause I duplicated the ones I wanted to keep. You choosing to delete the entire list of downloaded photos won’t delete your screenshots.
To be honest, I have no idea how to do it. First of all, I import all the photos to my Mac, then choose those I like the most and want to have on my phone, and then send them from my Mac to my iPhone. I always try to be careful with my photos because I once deleted something precious to me and failed to restore it. And I found this article
https://setapp.com/how-to/recover-deleted-photos-from-iphone when I was looking for some info connected to photos, and I think next time I'll not get into trouble. It's a good idea to save such info somewhere in case you need help.
