Find Photos That Aren’t In Any Album on iPhone/iPad

On iOS devices, i.e. iPhone and iPad, you can now find photos that are not in any album. This is useful when you are organizing and managing photos. It lets you decide whether to add them to existing or new albums, and which you might want to delete.

In Photos on Mac, you can use smart albums to find such photos – by creating a smart album with the condition ‘Album – Is Not – Any’. However, iOS doesn’t support smart albums. So we have to find some other way to do it.

Good news: This ability is available in iOS 18.4 and later.

Here’s how to find photos that are not in any album:

1. Open Photos on your iPhone or iPad.
   
2. Make sure you are in the Library view, which shows all your photos.
   
3. Swipe the screen slightly up or down. A little menu appears at the bottom.
   
4. Tap the round button on the left – it’s the one with up and down arrows.
   
5. Select Filter, and then ‘Not in any Album’. Done!

The little menu shown above appears at the bottom of the screen. Tap it and select Filter:

Select Not in an Album.

Next: How to sort the Mac / iCloud Photos library by file size?

Easy. With the macOS app PhotoSort.

Find a more detailed description here.