The Photos app stores all your pictures and videos in one place. While this is convenient, it also makes it a bit a mess, especially if you have a ton of photos and videos to sort through on your iPhone or iPad. Fortunately, there's a way to organize your captured content into albums on iPhone and iPad. You can quickly move your pictures into specific folders to separate your family shots, funny memes, or professional photos. Here's how!

How to create new albums in the Photos app

1. OpenPhotoson your iPhone or iPad.
2. Tap on theAlbums tab.
3. Tap the+ button in the upper left corner.

4. TapNew Album.
5. Title thealbum and tap onSave.
6. Tapphotos that you want to add to the album.
7. TapDone.

How to create new shared albums in the Photos app

With thePhotos app, you can also create an album that you can share with other people. This is really helpful if you want to have an album with your family or friends, where you or other members can look at your pictures and even add some of their own from theirbest iPhone orbest iPad. Here's how you can create one.

1. OpenPhotoson your iPhone or iPad.
2. TapAlbums.
3. Tap the+ button in the upper-left corner.

4. Open photos on your iPhone or iPad.
5. Tabalbums.
6. Tap the + sign in the upper left corner. 
7. TapNew Shared Album.
8. Enter aname for your album.
9. Tapnext.

7. Enter thenames of the people with whom you'd like to share your album.
8. Tapcreate.
9. Tap theshared album.

10. Tap the+ button.
11. Tap anyphotos that you want to add to the album.
12. Tapdone.
13. If you want, you cantype something to caption the pictures you added.
14. Tappost.

How to add photos and videos to existing albums with the Photos app

4. TapSelect.
5. Tap onphotos that you want to add to an album.
6. Tap theShare button on the bottom left corner..

7. TapAdd to Album orAdd to Shared Album.
8. Tap on thealbum to which you'd like to add your photos.

Your photos will beadded to your chosen album.

How to delete existing albums in the Photos app

One thing is to create and organize your folders, another is to delete the unnecesary folders you've made. Doing so is really easy and it'll only take a few taps.

1. Open thePhotos app.
2. Tap on theAlbums tab.
3. Tap onSee all next toMy Albums.

4. Tap onEdit.
5. Select the Album you want to delete and tap on the- icon on the left of the album.
6. TapDelete Album.

7. Tapdone.

How do you keep your photos organized?

Now you know how to keep your photos and videos organized in albums on your iPhone or iPad runningiOS 16 so you can easily locate and access your captured content. 

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Updated September 2022: Updated for iOS 16.