Over the time, a lots of photos accumulate in my iPhone.
After a certain time, I want to start a new “series” or “generation” of photos and by default see only the photos in the new series, not the onld ones. I only want to look at the old photos (in a previous series) occasionally, by explicitly telling the app that I want to see that series.
Until recently, I have dealt with this in the following way:
Whenever I decided that a series is complete, I connected my iPhone to my Mac and copied all pictures to my hard disk, into a directory for this series (say: series1). Then I deleted all pictures from my iPhone, and a new series started. Over the years, this brought me directories on my Mac (series1, series2, ….) and I always have the current series on my iPhone.
While this process was convenient and allowed me to backup the pictures, I now would prefer a similar system, which also keeps all the series on my iPhone.
My first idea was to create an album for this purpose, and discussed this here. I could make an album and put the pictures there, but as I learned from a comment by @hillside on this thread, the pictures are still present in my main library, and if I would delete them there, they would also be gone from my album. Hence after starting a new series, I still see all the old pictures as well.
I would like to have a solution, where I by default see only the current series and only when I switch to a new folder (album?), I see the pictures belonging to that series.
I’m not sure whether this can be done on the iPhone, but if I would organize pictures on my Mac, I would create a folder current and let all pictures go into this folder. When the series is complete, I would rename the folder, and create a new current folder to receive the pictures of the next series.
Can something like this be achieved in the iPhone, maybe with the help of some other app?
