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Hit the “select” button and hold and drag down on the photos to select them all at once. If you find yourself overwhelmed with the sheer quantity of photos, use the “search” and “select” buttons to add specific photos into their corresponding albums, in bulk! Head to the “photos” tab on your albums, type in what you’re looking to organize into the search icon (like names of cities, dates, etc.) and it will pull any matching pictures. (Pro tip: create a recurring event on your calendar to delete, categorize, and back up your photos every month). If you set the backup period to manual, you can control when the app backups the photos. We recommend “backing up” your library once you’ve gone through and deleted photos so that it resembles an organized camera roll. We’ve found Google Photos to be the simplest, most effective way to back up your photos. Lo and behold, the most crucial (and missed) step. Need a little inspiration to start? Here's how we do it. To make your organized photo life into a habit, set a recurring event on your calendar to remind yourself to pay a bit of attention to the process. (We tend to put the “To Edit,” “Edited,” and the current month first.) To rearrange their order, head to your albums and scroll down to “My Albums.” Press “edit” in the upper right hand corner and hold down the album to drag it to where you want. Organize your albums in terms of priority so that you see the most important ones first. Once you edit a photo, make sure you add it to your “Edited” folder.

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Pro tip: select all of the photos at once from your favorites folder by hitting “select all” - transfer them into the folder in bulk. Select and copy them into the “To Edit” folder so that you have a centralized spot for all of the photos that need to be edited. Make your way into your “Favorites” folder to select the photos that you want to edit. If you find yourself always scanning your photo library to select the photos you want to edit and share, we recommend creating “To Edit” and “Edited” folders in your albums. Take a mental inventory of the photos you gravitate towards taking, and then create your albums based on what makes sense from that. Some of our favorite ways to organize? By months, people, or events.

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Once you’ve simplified your camera roll, create a series of albums under the “My Albums” section to categorize your photos.

Short on time? Press the “select button” in the upper right corner to drag over multiple images to delete at once. Clean out any photos that don’t capture your attention or epitomize a moment. If you didn’t put a heart on the image originally, consider why you are keeping it around. Trust us - decluttering can only be achieved by getting rid of the images that are duplicates, blurry, or unnecessary screenshots. Set yourself up for success and make the delete button a good friend. Make sure you have 1-2 photos of each major event for recording’s sake, but don’t get tied up about each individual image. Only save the phots that you know you will want to return to. This will automatically filter them into your “favorites folder.” Pro tip: be decisive. Set aside time to press the heart on the bottom of the photos that are most significant. Let’s start with identifying the photos that mean the most to you. Follow along for simplified tips to clean up your camera roll - you’re 10 steps away from an organized photo life. And while our phones hold a digital record of our days, we’re sure of one thing: it’s time to make space for what’s to come. If you’re like us, that camera roll of yours is anything but organized.

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