IPhone – How to delete a photo off the camera roll, but keep it in the album

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I'm hitting the hide button, but it's still showing up in my camera roll. I want to delete some photos from my camera roll, but keep them in my album.

Best Answer

My workflow for this - not using iCloud - is:

  1. import the photos into an app (I use Lightroom)
  2. label photos I want to end up on my iPhone with "for-iphone"
  3. export photos labelled "for-iphone" to a folder of your choice (I use "Pictures/for-iphone")
  4. in iTunes turn on "Sync Photos" for your iPhone
    [note: find "Sync Photos" by plugging in your iPhone, opening iTunes, clicking on the little phone icon to the right of the "Music" dropdown, then clicking Photos in the list below]
  5. at "Copy photos from:" pick "Choose folder..." and navigate to the "Pictures/for-iphone" folder or your equivalent
  6. Hit Done

Your photos will be uploaded to your phone independent of the Camera Roll.

Each time you sync any newly-added photos in the for-iphone folder will be added to your phone.

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