How the fuck do you effectively manage iPhone photos?

I've got over 6000 pictures on my iPhone from the past 3 or 4 years that I could never bring myself to remove but it's just getting insane now, and it's taking up like half of my iPhone space. What I need to do is:

• Remove most or all of them from my iPhone
• Ideally still be able to access them from my device

Why do you need 6K photos on your phone?

Like is it for work or whatever?

I don't, that's the point

but I mean I still go back and access stuff fairly regularly, even shit from several years ago

Right but you say you'd like to be able to access them from ur device -- why?

I mean if there's stuff that's important to you to have moment to moment is DL everything to iPhoto or whatever and make a new album w JUST the stuff that's rly important. Editing can be a fun thing (said the photographer)

^sry I'm on my phone u get what I'm sayin tho

Yeah, I have thought of that, and actually attempted it many times, and it takes me like half an hour to get through several hundred photos and I would literally have to spend 8 hours doing nothing but going through all my photos

And then deciding which to delete permanently and which to keep but remove from phone and which to keep on phone

That's the challenge. It's like, as someone who does this all the time the act of editing as you go does a lot for mitigating this kind of thing. Due to the years of not managing yr data u kinda have to just sit down and do it. The plus side is u clear space off the phone and you get to add more stuff

U don't have to delete ANYTHING! Just archive it?

6-7GB of photos is, like, nothing these days

http://www.cultofmac.com/254062/how-to-get-all-of-your-photos-into-flickr-and-forget-everpix-forever-how-to/

this looks fairly promising once initial setup is complete

That seems like a colossal PITA

I don't get how dicking around w software to UL to a third party site is better than sitting down and actually looking at your pictures

http://www.apple.com/ios/ios8/photos/

I think iCloud can keep like the last 1,000 photos you took in its 'stream' for access

But I don't think there's a good way to 'manage' this unless you do what JtM suggests

Might be worth it to just buy the largest sized iPhone you can get

FWIW, trying to go through 6,000 photos on an iPhone screen seems like hell to me

but I have tried to sit down and actually look at all my photos and go through it several times and it has proven ineffective :-/ and besides, at this point I think I can say I've weeded out most of the riff-raff

IDK I guess any cloud-based system is not gonna be as quick and responsive as having them on your device

Maybe try uploading all of them to a private photo album on Facebook and using Facebook to keep them organized? Facebook's compression is hell on photos tho ime

this is a good question

i have had a flickr account for like 7-8 years, so i've been making sets and uploading things i want to keep there, like a storage box of things i want to remember. everything from clothes i've said goodbye to --> pictures of myself + mr on vacation ---> the family photos (friends + family i like to remember and look at pictures of + old pictures of me and my nuclear family). i can access it from my phone and it works alright. i also started making a food pics archive to use as a visual menu and that has been useful.

however, i still find myself with tons of pictures on my phone that don't have any other home but that i would be sad to lose. i guess i'm an image hoarder. i don't think this is an easy one-size-fits-all answer, but i think you just gotta come up with a system that works (or mostly works) for you. people have such different relationships with their pictures, but irl i've got a little assortment of boxes and albums that i look through from time to time, just to like remember stuff and escape from 2014 for a minute. it's good to have some of those pictures with me and accessible through flickr. now that i think about it, i guess it's a bit excessive, but it's free and makes me happy, so. it was worth it even when i paid for a flickr account.

Ah man, this thread is my life right now. I upgraded to iOS 8.1 and needed to move all my photos/videos off my phone and onto one of our home computers and then delete the photo stream and all photos from my iPhone.

QUESTION #1: I have zero photos/videos on my iPhone and yet my Usage stats still indicated I'm using 1.3GB of memory. That seems sketchy. Is there an easier way to remove this bloat other than a complete wipe? I did a bit of googling and lots of people ask this question on various Apple forums but it never is quite answered.

is it showing 1.3GB of photos or just 1.3gb of ~stuff~? Bcz a lot of it is going to be the OS and also temp/cache files that will clear themselves if the disk gets too full.

Sorry for being unclear, in Settings>General>Usage>Manage Storage it shows my Photos & Camera storage at 1.3GB, despite zero photos & videos in my photo folders, photo stream, and recently deleted folder.

Yeah, mine says 1.6 GB in use for photos... I have 47 photos on my phone after wiping it. Wish I hadn't downloaded iOS8

ive whatever, say almost twenty years of photos backed up here there and everywhere that im gonna tackle tomorrow and get into one device with a view to backing up to the cloud tomorrow.

two questions

is there any program that will extract image files from all the different folders into one folder to save my doing it (nb i may not do this but just in case)

is there any program that is able to recognise when two pics are the same (even if not named the same) and delete automatically?

is there a decent program to handle this kind of thing in general?

over time i hope to delete probably 90% of these pics and really just have a good backed-up cloud-available repository of pics i select, but if the dogwork could be done while im off doing something else hey great

is there any prog