How to organize iPhone photos, one month at a time
Pick one month and give yourself a few minutes to look through it. Keep the photos you want, skip anything you are unsure about, and review unwanted shots before deleting them. PhotoSway saves your progress so you can stop and continue later.
Choose a manageable starting point
Open PhotoSway and use the date entry on the home screen to choose a month. You can also start a Task for a small random group of photos. On first use, choose which photos the app may access in the system permission prompt. Limited access means you will only be organizing that selection.
A recent trip or a familiar month gives you some context for each photo. Work through that set before deciding whether you need more albums.
Give uncertain photos a separate decision
With the default gestures, swipe down to keep, up to add to To delete, right to skip, and left to undo. You can customize all four directions and double tap in Settings, so follow your current mapping if you have changed it.
Kept photos leave the regular review queue. Skipped photos can appear again when you return for another session. Adding a photo to To delete leaves it available for a final check.
Put the photos you want into albums
By default, double tapping opens the album picker. Choose an album to add the original photo and mark it as kept. Album access requires full photo permission. A few albums for trips, family, or projects can give you useful places to look later.
For several photos at once, open the photo wall, drag to select, and use the batch actions to keep them or add them to an album.
Finish with a deletion review
Open To delete, check the selected photos, and confirm the deletion through the system prompt. After a system deletion, recovery happens in Recently Deleted in Apple's Photos app; PhotoSway's ordinary Undo does not restore those files.
Apple keeps deleted photos and videos in Recently Deleted for 30 days. With iCloud Photos enabled, deletion also syncs to your other devices using the same Apple Account and iCloud Photos. Remove anything you want to keep from To delete before confirming.