iOS 15 Photo management - need help

iJny9956 · Sep 26, 2021

I usually do a photo dump from my phone into photos desktop library every now and then. I do a full dump so phone photos get erased and everything remain on the desktop app library.

After iOS 15 upgrade I noticed that all the photos that I've taken were properly uploaded to my machine and erased from my phone. However, I keep seeing a thousand photos in my phone photos app. These photos usually have the "messages" icon on the thumbnail. So I'm assuming these are stuff related to messages? Now why are they in my library and if they were in my library why didn't they upload to my computer and erase form the phone? + These are taking up space in my phone? after a full upload to my computer library I see photos taking up about 12 gigs on my phone what is going on? Clearly Things have been moved and erased.

All this sound so convoluted.

Help. and thank you in advance.

iJny9956 · Sep 27, 2021

Bump

I can’t be the only one with this question.

PPSH-41 · Sep 28, 2021

Is it this?

Go to Settings, Messages, Shared with you and you can turn it off by sliding the Photos option here to off. That will keep your Message photos only in Messages I believe.

macrlz9 · Sep 28, 2021

It shows photos shared via messages app alongside your library. Drove me nuts too. Here’s the setting to turn it off.

StevenB14 · Sep 28, 2021

Seems like that only turns it off until you go back into the photos app. Anyone know how to permanently select your photos only?

edit:

seems to stay on permanently in the Library but under Albums -> Recents it resets every time.

zorinlynx · Sep 28, 2021

StevenB14 said:
Seems like that only turns it off until you go back into the photos app. Anyone know how to permanently select your photos only?

edit:

seems to stay on permanently in the Library but under Albums -> Recents it resets every time.

Follow the advice above: