How iPhone album hacks helped me

I consider myself an unorganized person. It doesn’t come naturally for me to put things in order, be on time, and to keep my plants alive. To function properly in society, I have come up with several strategies to keep my life somewhat organized. In this post, I will share my best iPhone album hacks.

Create a new iPhone album

Some of the photos you take with your iPhone are automatically added to a photo album. The photos taken with for example panorama mode, the selfie camera or portrait mode are added to their respective iPhone album. You can easily add new albums with the add button in the top left corner.

In our app PhotoStaxx, iOS albums are shown as if they were in a real stack of photos. When using the app, you can select a destination album. This makes it easy to add photos to specific albums when swiping through your photos. Swipe the photo upwards to copy it to the destination album. These are the three albums that I use to make my life a little bit more organized.

Outfits

It doesn’t matter if it is 7 am before heading to work or 7 pm going to a dinner party, I never have anything to wear despite having an overflowing closet. My boyfriend has learned to stay away when this happens, I tend to get quite frustrated. I now keep an album with photos of me in different outfits. Every time I take a photo of myself in an outfit that I like, I save my photo in the outfit album on my iPhone. Next time I feel like I don’t have anything to wear, I go to my outfit album for inspiration.

Beverage labels

Is it just me or do you also keep photos of wine labels? Every time I drink a new wine that I like, I take a photo of the label and tell myself that I’ll buy it again. My unorganized self would forget about those photos but I now have an album designated for it. Every time I am buying wine or another beverage, I open up the iPhone album to find my favorites.

Show off photos

Imagine this, you are talking to a colleague about your dog and decide to show a photo. Instead of scrolling through awkward screenshots, party photos and selfies, keep a show off album! In this iPhone album, save the photos that you tend to show people. Mine has photos of my family and friends. You can thank me later when your mom doesn’t accidentally see what you did last Saturday night.

Use your imagination

Those are just a few ways to use albums to your benefit. I recommend you to figure out what albums fits your life the best and create your own kind. Once you have them, make it a regular routine to go through your photos with PhotoStaxx. I go through all my new photos once a week and organize them. Some go to the trash and some to my custom albums. It’s easy and it makes me feel like I’m actually an organized kind of person. Good luck with creating your personal albums!