Keeping track of how many photos you have stored on your iPhone can be useful for managing your storage space. Here are a few methods to count and tally the total number of photos on your iPhone.
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Use the Photos App
The Photos app provides a quick overview of how many items you have stored.
To view this:
- Open the Photos app
- Tap on the Albums tab at the bottom
- Scroll to the very bottom past all your albums
- You will see a section called “Media Types”
- This displays the total number of photos stored on your device
While simple, this method does not give you a count of videos or depth in organizing your media. To get more detail, you’ll need to use additional methods.
Use Storage Management in Settings
For a tally of photos, videos, apps and more:
- Go to the Settings app
- Select General > iPhone Storage
- Wait for it to calculate – this gives an overview by type of how much space each media type is using
- Select Photos to get a count of just photos and videos
This breaks out the numbers with more detail than the Photos app. You can see how many photos, videos, etc. are using up space on your phone.
Use a Third Party App
For even more detail, consider using a third party app like Photo Investigator. These apps analyze all the images on your device and generate custom reports.
Key things apps like Photo Investigator provide:
- Total photo count
- Total video count
- Counts by source – camera, screenshots, saved images, etc.
- Timeline of photos
- Map of geo-tagged photos
- Detection of blurry and duplicate photos
The investivation and reporting abilities of third party apps provide the most comprehensive way to tally and analyze all your iPhone photos.
Tips for Reducing Photo Counts
Once you have a tally of all your photos, you can better manage the contents:
Review and remove blurry photos:
- Burst mode shots often capture blurry photos in the sequence
- Delete these to recover significant storage space
Find and remove screenshots:
- Screenshots easily accumulate but often lose relevancy over time
- Delete old, unneeded screenshots
Delete duplicate photos:
- You may have duplicates you captured in error
- Delete the copy and keep only one version
Offload unused apps’ photos:
- Photos within apps no longer used still occupy space
- Offload photos from unused apps like social media apps deleted
