How to Create Photo Albums on an iPad

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Last Updated: July 5, 2024

You can create new albums in the Photos app to organize the photos on your iPad. Once you've created albums, you can add new images to them at any time. If you're using iOS 10 or later, you can use the People and Places albums to view automatic albums that Photos creates for you.

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Creating New Albums

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This can be found in the upper-left corner.
This can make it easier to find older pictures.
You can always add more images later.

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Adding Images to Albums

You can switch between photos and other albums by tapping the tabs at the bottom.
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Using the "People" Album

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Tap a person that's been recognized. Photos will not automatically tag people with names. You'll need to enter names manually, and this will not sync with your other devices. ^{[2]
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- You'll have to set up the People album on each of your individual devices, since the data is not synced with your account for privacy reasons.
Photos will show autocomplete options for names in your contacts list.
Sometimes Photos will make separate entries for the same person. When you enter someone's name that is already in the list, tapping "Merge" will combine all of their pictures.
Tap and drag a face to add it to the top of the People album.
Once you've labeled someone and merged any duplicate entries, Photos will start automatically adding new pictures of them as you take them. Tapping a person in the People album will show all of the pictures that Photos has matched with that person. ^{[3]
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Using the "Places" Album

Pins on the map will indicate where the photos were taken. The number next to the picture shows how many pictures were taken at that sport.
A town you visited may show a lot of pictures as its pin, but as you zoom in you'll see new distinct pins for different parts of the town you took pictures at.
The "Grid" button is at the top of the screen. The map will be replaced with a list of places you've been organized in a grid.

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Press the three dots or press and hold, it will say "save to camera roll" or something similar.

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How can you easily re-arrange photos?

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When you are in your folder, just hold your finger down on the photo you desire to move, and it should become a little bigger. You can place it wherever you'd like in the gallery.

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I have created a new album, but the photos are not in the order I selected. How can I get them in the correct order?

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At the top of the gallery/album, select 'Sort as' and click on your preference.

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Placing two fingers on an album and slowly dragging them apart allows you to see a preview of the images within the album.

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You can tap and drag albums on the albums screen to organize them.

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Warnings

Removing an image from an album is not the same as deleting it. If you want to delete an image, you must use the Delete button (trash can) when viewing an image from the Photos or Photo Stream tabs.

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How to Create Photo Albums on an iPad

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Creating New Albums

Adding Images to Albums

Using the "People" Album

Using the "Places" Album

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