Photo Albums is where you store pictures on your iPhone. When you first open up the Photo Albums application, you get a list of the different albums available. Camera Roll will contain the pictures you have taken on your iPhone. Photo Library will contain all of the photos you have choosen to sync with your iPhone using iTunes.
You will also see any other photo albums you have choosen to sync. To create a photo album, use iPhoto. Then, go to iTunes with your iPhone plugged in, select your iPhone and choose the Photos tab. You can select to have all of your photos and albums synced, or only a few. You can also use Smart Albums, that will have selections based on search criteria, such as the most recent photos.
When you select an album to view from the Photo Albums page, you will be taken to a Photo Library page. This will show all the photos in the album, and allow you to scroll through it. You can also press a Play button at the bottom of the screen to start a slideshow.
If you press on a photo, you will be taken to a close view of that photo. You can now use arrows at the bottom of the screen to look at the next or previous picture. You can also press the Play button to start the slideshow. If you are looking at the Camera Roll, you will also see a Trash Can button that you can use to throw away the picture.
At the bottom of the picture, in the left corner, is a small button that will bring up some more functions. You can choose to have the picture used as you iPhone wallpapge, you can email the photo, assign it to a contact, or send it to a Web Gallery that you had previous set up with your .Mac account and iPhoto.
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how to create the iphone library in itunes? i really need to manage my albums in this iphone 3g. i just dont know how. need a clear step on how to do it. thanks.
The best way to do it is to create a new album in iPhoto called “iPhone” or something like that. Then put in it only the photos you want to transfer to your iPhone. Then set your iPhone in iTunes to sync only that album and nothing else.
HI,
great tip, this one, but I have a query…
following a recent hard disc crash on my iMac, I have a photo library of 500 odds photos from before the crash. I’ve not been able to recover any data from the drive crash, so was wanting to transfer these photos back to iPhoto. Of course, iPhoto syncs with iPhone, but I’m not sure if it can sync these previous (not on camera roll) photos back into iPhoto. I’m currently emailing them one at a time back to my mail address… Is ther a faster and more efficient way to do this transfer? (I’ve also tried some apps like iPhonerip, but under the photo import setting, there is no info – ie, “0kb on disc”, when I know that I have photos stored…)
Hoping that this post is understandable, and that there is a solution…
please help i have the same problem!!!
One of the problems is that there are no full copies of these photos on your phone. They have been shrunk and compressed so they don’t take up too much space. So you can’t get your originals back, only small copies. And if you email them it is worse because they are compressed even more to be sent in an email. There are some programs out there that claim to be able to do this, but I’ve never used them. Do a Google search for it.
As for everyone else: This is why it is so critical that we all use Time Machine to back up. Your photos alone make it worth the cost of a hard drive.
me too =(
JS: Have you thought about taking the phone to the Apple Store? Make an appointment at a Genius Bar and see if they can help. Otherwise, look for another 3rd-party solution since that one didn’t work. Keep in mind that emailed photos are smaller than the ones on the phone itself, so emailing might not be a good solution at all.
Another idea is to use the Preview app on your Mac. Open up Preview, plug in your iPhone, and choose File, Import Image.
JS: Have you found a solution to your problem? I have the exact same problem…accidently deleted all photos from my Mac and want to transfer the synced photos from my iphone back onto my computer but am afraid to loose them in a sync back…any thoughts or solutions??
Thanks!!!
Hey not tried this but at least its a thought turn of the sync in itunes for the photos to make sure that it doesnt get deleted then plug your phone in and open up iphoto. My iphone appears in there as a camera and I can import the images in from there like a normal camera
how can i implement iPhoto album in my iphone application, acutely i like to implement a slide show in my iphone application, but i have no idea about that, please guide me how can i do that.
deepak: An album is just a collection of photos. Create one in iPhoto and then in iTunes, while syncing your iPhone, select to sync that album under the iPhone photos. Then, to view it ias a slideshow in the iPhone, just view the album and press the “play” button.
Yes , all well and good … but what about windows users ????
No such thing as iPhoto in windows … is there ?
if you are windows users you can try “utunephoto” that can manipulate your photo albums or camera roll.
I have taken some pictures straight onto the contact’s info and can’t seem to find where the picture is actually “stored.” I would like to use these pics for other things, posting, emailing etc. How do I access these photos to transfer them?
-B
They don’t appear in your “Camera Roll” as well? If not, then they may not be in a place you can easily access.
Nope not on the “Camera Roll” either. I’ll try Mac support. Note to self, take pictures of people using normal camera mode and then put them on contacts hehe.
On the contact page where you see the desired photo, touch the photo and hold your finger on it for a bit. You should get a “Copy” & “Paste” option above it. If you select “Copy” you can paste the photo in Mail after you’ve started composing a new message and send it.
Note: make sure you’re not in the Edit mode of the contact page because it won’t work there.
I was wondering if it is possible to remove the Photo Library feature?
Remove it? You mean delete the app? You can’t delete the default iPhone apps. You can just put them on the last page of your apps if you like.
Can you do any of this pky hot iPhone cause I only have pics on my computer from my iPhone and they are all in one big photo album and I want to slipt them up can I to that with a windows computer?
-BS
any news on moving photos NOT in camera roll from the iphone 3g back onto a macpro computer?? all originals were lost…..please help!!!
You can always email them to yourself, though I believe the images get compressed when you do that. If they are critically important, I’d consult with an expert to get them off the phone in their original format.
You could preview those photos and then press the sleep/wake and home buttons simultaneously which would take a photo of that photo an it would be saved in your camera roll?? I unfortunately have the same problem and I’ve had to either email them or use flikit or flikr
Your site is the best one!
Is there a way of setting a passcode on the camera album folder on the iphone??
I already have the passcode set up when you unlock the phone, but can I put another on the photo album? Thanks
No, I’m pretty sure there is nothing built into the photo album viewer that will act as a passcode for just that one app.
I used Image Capture to download the pictures in the Camera Roll album. The quality isn’t so bad. Around 700 KB each.
Hi I dont have a delete function within my Photo Library. Nor does it appear as a sync option in iTunes.
The only options I have are to email the photo, assign to Contact or use as wallpaper. There is no way I can actually delete via iphone or via iTunes. Very odd and very obscure..
You can’t delete pictures that you synced from your Mac. You remove them by not syncing them. In iTunes you decide which photo albums you sync, or to sync all. In iPhoto you can create photo albums. SO if you only want certain pictures to sync to your iPhone, then create a custom photo album in iPhoto and set iTunes to only sync that one photo album.
How do I delete phone photos out of my “Photo Library” folder?
You do that in iPhoto and iTunes. Use iTunes to determine which albums are synced between your Mac and iPhone. Use iPhoto to determine which photos are included in those albums.
help, can anyone to tell me how to transfer my pictures from PHOTO LIBRARY (in iphone) to my xp? lost all my photos but can’t transfer pictures from the LIBRARY only pictures from CAMERA ROLL.
The library contains small copies of the photos on your Mac/PC — not the originals. You can email them to yourself, but you only get those small copies. I’m afraid that you lost the originals if you lost them from your PC — that’s the only place the originals would have been stored.
thanks mr. gary, am now starting to email the
pictures to myself, so far so good. thanks for
the information.
My iPhone camera is allow’n me to take pictures and video but I’m not able to view photos or video. In my albums. What can I do to solve this problem thanks
They should appear in your “camera roll” do you see them there?
In the Photo Library you have all your pictures and you also have your folders(that means…pictures are duplicated). What can I do to NOT have duplicated pictures?
Not sure what you mean. Do you mean “albums” not “folders” — albums don’t duplicate photos. The photos are only stored on your hard drive once. The albums are collections that point to the same photos in your “Events.” Like when you have songs in iTunes and can list them all by song, but you can also look at the songs on an album. The song is only there once, the album gives you another way to view some of them.
Hi thanks for this site. Very useful for a non-techie like me trying to enjoy my iphone.
I saved images from google image search to my photo library, some of which I use for wallpaper. But some now I want to delete. But there is no delete option unlike in camera roll. Help! How can i delete them?
You don’t delete them from the iPhone. You delete them in iPhoto — or, more precisely, you remove them from the list of albums or events that are set to set from with your iPhone.
i m having a problem, i cant see the photos on my i phone?? what shud i do to coreect it?
What have you done so far? Did you check your iTunes photos syncing settings. Resync?
Okay, so I created a folder on windows XP and synced it to my iPhone but now when I open photos, it flashes the albums and then just shows a screen that does nothing…any suggestions?
Sounds like something is amiss. Hard to tell from here. Maybe a visit to the Apple store so someone can take a look in person?
I am a Windows user and I have an iPhone4. The photos I’ve been taking had been going into an album called “camera roll” and I could access the album on the albums page on the iPhone. For some reason, the album has disappeared and I no longer have any albums. I found that I can see the camera roll if I click on the camera and then click on the “last photo” in the bottom right. All my photos appear here.
But I would like to see them when I click on “photos”.
How do I get the camera roll “album” back? How do I create new albums?
thanks for your help…
Eric
Have you tried some of the basics: restarting your iPhone? Syncing your iPhone with your PC? Are you sure you have selected “Albums” at the bottom (not Events, Faces or Places?)