4 Tricks for Your iOS 8 Photo Albums

iOS 8 has expanded it’s organizational abilities and come up with some new features that make storing and viewing your pictures much easier. Check out four of my personal favorites below.

Hidden Folder

If you ever feel pangs of terror when showing photos on your phone to others, for fear they might swipe too far to left or right and accidentally encounter a photo of a personal nature (or, if you’re like me, one too many photos of my dog in cute sweaters, all time-stamped on Saturday nights- proving my social skills might rival those of Liz Lemon), you can now easily create a hidden folder. Phew! All photos placed in the folder will no longer appear in your “Photos” section (though, be warned- they will still appear in your camera roll and photo stream), thus reducing your chances of embarrassment.

1. Open Photos.

2. Tap the photo you wish to hide.

3. Tap and hold anywhere on the photo.

4. When the “Hide” option appears, press it.

5. Tap “Hide Photo.”

6. To find your hidden pictures, tap “Albums.”

7. Tap “Hidden.”

8. Your hidden photos can all be viewed in this one folder.

Undelete Photos

No need to continue to fear the delete button, any accidentally binned photos can now be easily recovered.

1. Open Photos.

2. Tap “Albums”

3. Tap “Recently Deleted.”

4. Tap the photo you wish to recover.

5. Tap “Recover.”

6. Tap “Recover Photo.”

Your photo will be reinstated back to its rightful place in its original album.

Favorites

Your photos app now gives you the option of selecting your favorite images. This groups them into a single album, making it easier for you to access that cute picture of your nephew, without having to wade through the hundreds of pictures on your phone.

1. Open Photos.

2. Tap the photo you wish to favorite.

3. Tap the heart icon so that it is solid blue.

4. To see all your favorite photos, open the “Favorites” folder in “Albums.”5. Your newly favorited photo will appear.

Search Photos

Now you no longer need to scroll endlessly through every picture you’ve ever taken to find a photographic needle-in-a-hay-stack. Your Photos app now has a search option, allowing you to search by date or location.

1. Open Photos.

2. Tap the magnifying glass icon.

3. Search by date or place, then tap the one you want (ie: Chicago).

4. This will open all the photos in your albums that were geo-tagged in Chicago.

These are just some of the many new features in iOS 8’s Photos app. Which other features do you readers find useful? Or, are there some of you out there who dislike some of the changes made to their photo organizer?

For more iOS tips and tricks head to our iOS How To’s section.