How to merge albums of the same person or pet in iOS 17

Merging photograph collections collectively

All through folks’s lives, bodily options have a tendency to vary and so they might look barely completely different than they beforehand did. Attributable to this, the Pictures app might imagine it is one other particular person when it is not.

Whereas this isn’t game-changing, it is annoying to have a number of albums of the identical particular person. It’s possible you’ll need to mix the albums to tidy up your Pictures app and make it much less cluttered.

Merging two albums of the identical particular person is straightforward to do, and when you full it, your Pictures app will look extra organized than earlier than.

Merging two albums is as straightforward as dragging and dropping. This is how one can merge them effectively.

1. Open the Pictures app
2. Faucet on Albums from the underside menu
3. Scroll down till you see the Individuals, Pets & Locations part, and faucet on the Individuals & Pets assortment
4. Discover the 2 Individuals or Pet collections you need to merge
5. Drag one assortment over the opposite
6. Verify that you just need to merge them

Merging collections collectively by way of drag-and-drop

When you verify the merge, all of the images from one assortment will go into the opposite. The gathering will then take the title of the particular person you merged into.

There may be additionally one other means you possibly can merge two albums by way of the particular person’s title. This is how you can full it.

1. Discover one of many collections of the particular person you need to merge
2. Faucet on Add Title on the prime
3. Sort in the identical title as the opposite assortment
4. Verify the title change and the 2 albums will merge into one assortment

Merging collections by way of renaming

Irrespective of which means you resolve to merge the 2 collections, each will offer you the identical final result of eliminating a number of collections primarily based on one particular person.

In the event you unintentionally merge the unsuitable folks, you will need to go into the gathering and manually choose the images that shouldn’t be there. That is the way you take away them.

1. Faucet on Choose within the higher proper of the display screen
2. Choose the picture(s) of the person who should not be within the assortment
3. Faucet on the three dots within the decrease proper of the display screen
4. Choose “These are Not [Person’s Name]”

Eradicating undesirable folks from a group

As soon as you choose that these images should not who the gathering is devoted to, the images will routinely be taken out of it.

Irrespective of who it’s, merging two collections that encompass the identical folks or pet will clear up your Pictures app and make it a bit extra organized.