iPhone photos help

[tysonsmith]

Hi all,

This might be the wrong place for this question, and if so I apologize.

 

I'm currently trying to move all the photos from my girlfriend's phone into a hard drive, then delete the ones she doesn't need any more. To save the ones she wants, she is putting them into a specific album.

Is there any way we can delete all photos that aren't in that album. Googling isn't bringing up anything useful, and somehow she has 2800 photos so we'd rather not do it individually haha.

 

Thanks for the help

[pythonmegapixel]

iPhones are a bit finicky with connections to computers but I believe they'll still allow you to copy photos across. So I'd suggest that you plug the iPhone into your laptop or desktop computer, create a new folder on your computer, and copy all the photos into that.

 

Once you have a copy of all the photos on your computer, have your girlfriend put the photos she wants to keep into their own folder, then plug in your hard drive and copy only that folder across to the hard drive.

 

Then you can simply delete the photos off your computer and the iPhone and you will be left with a copy of only the photos your girlfriend wants, on the hard drive.

[The_russian]

If I understood you correctly you want to copy all photos currently on the phone to a hard drive, then only keep the needed photos on the phone. If that is what you meant, I don't know if there is a way to do that, it might be easier/you might have to just delete all the photos from the phone (after backing up to the hard drive of course) then transfer the ones you want back. 

[tysonsmith]

9 minutes ago, pythonmegapixel said:

iPhones are a bit finicky with connections to computers but I believe they'll still allow you to copy photos across. So I'd suggest that you plug the iPhone into your laptop or desktop computer, create a new folder on your computer, and copy all the photos into that.

 

Once you have a copy of all the photos on your computer, have your girlfriend put the photos she wants to keep into their own folder, then plug in your hard drive and copy only that folder across to the hard drive.

 

Then you can simply delete the photos off your computer and the iPhone and you will be left with a copy of only the photos your girlfriend wants, on the hard drive.

 

2 minutes ago, The_russian said:

If I understood you correctly you want to copy all photos currently on the phone to a hard drive, then only keep the needed photos on the phone. If that is what you meant, I don't know if there is a way to do that, it might be easier/you might have to just delete all the photos from the phone (after backing up to the hard drive of course) then transfer the ones you want back. 

Thanks guys, was really hoping there was an easier way but guess we have some sifting to do haha

[pythonmegapixel]

6 minutes ago, tysonsmith said:

 

Thanks guys, was really hoping there was an easier way but guess we have some sifting to do haha

Ok, very sorry we couldn't find you a better solution