Life & Photo-Organizing - Sort-It-Out

🎙️Camera Roll Out of Control? Organize Your iPhone Screenshots   Sort-It-Out Podcast | Season 2 Is your iPhone camera roll full of shopping screenshots, saved recipes, gift ideas, and random photos you took because you needed to remember something? You're not alone! Our iPhones have become so much more than cameras. They're shopping assistants, recipe books, reminders, and everyday organizational...

🎙️What's New in Apple Photos? iPhone Updates & Features You Should Know About We're BACK for Season Two! ​And what better way to kick things off than talking about something Amanda gets particularly excited about every September—Apple's latest updates! If you've recently updated your iPhone or Mac and noticed a few things look different, you're not alone. In this episode, we're chatting about...

🎧 Show Notes How to Find Photos on Your iPhone Using the Map & Collections Tab Have you ever known exactly where a photo was taken—but had no idea when you took it or how to find it again? In this Tiny Task episode of Sort-It-Out, Amanda takes you inside the Collections tab in the iPhone Photos app and shows how it can become one of your favourite little photo-finding tools. From Apple-genera...

🎧 Show Notes How to Add Searchable Captions to Your iPhone Photos Have you ever found a photo once—only to struggle to find it again later? If you missed the main episode in this series, you can listen to it here: [LISTEN HERE] In our last Tiny Task, we explored how descriptive searches such as “kids playing in the snow” or “sunset in Mexico” can help narrow thousands of photos down to the ones y...

Stop Scrolling: Use Your iPhone Photos Search Bar You know the photo is in there somewhere—but finding it can feel impossible when you’re scrolling through years of memories, screenshots, videos, recipes, memes, and everyday life. In this Tiny Task, we’re showing you how to use the search feature in your iPhone Photos app to find what you need faster. Instead of relying on dates or endless scrolli...

Stop Scrolling: How to Find a Photo on Your iPhone Have you ever known exactly what a photo looked like but had absolutely no idea when you took it—or where it was hiding? In this episode, Kristi and Amanda begin the third and final question in their Top iPhone Questions series: How do I find a photo on my iPhone? Before diving in, they catch up on their summer memories and discuss the pressure to...

Why Is My iPhone Full? Tiny Task: Clean Up Your Apps When was the last time you looked at all the apps taking up space on your iPhone—not just the ones you use every day? Hiding in that list might be an app you haven’t opened in months. Or, as Amanda recently discovered, it could be an app you use regularly that’s quietly holding onto far more storage than you realize. In Amanda’s case, Apple Musi...

Is WhatsApp Taking Up Space on Your iPhone? Clean Out Its Hidden Storage Closet Have you ever saved a photo or video from WhatsApp to your Photos Library and assumed you had taken care of it? Here’s the sneaky part: even after you save that item to your Photos Library, the original may still be taking up space inside WhatsApp. That means the same photo or video could now be using storage in two di...

🎧 Show Notes If you missed the parent episode, be sure to go back and listen to the main “Why Is My iPhone Full?” overview episode for the full breakdown of what’s actually taking up space on your device and how all the Tiny Tasks fit together. And don’t forget—you can download the free Tiny Task checklist that goes along with this episode to help you follow along step-by-step and start clearing...

🎧 Show Notes Tiny Task: Free Up Space in Your Photos Library Part of the "Why Is My iPhone Full?" Tiny Task Series Think deleting photos is the only way to free up space on your iPhone? Think again. In this Tiny Task, we're exploring a few simple tweaks inside your Photos app that can help reduce storage, tidy your photo library, and better explain why your iPhone may be running out of space. The...

🎧 Show Notes Tiny Task: Tidy Up Your Text Messages Part of the "Why Is My iPhone Full?" Tiny Task Series Did you know your text message conversations could be quietly taking up a surprising amount of storage on your iPhone? In this Tiny Task, we're uncovering one of those hidden "storage keeper" spaces that many people don't even realize exists. If you've ever shared photos and videos with family...

🎧 Show Notes Why Is My iPhone Full? Part 2 of our Top 3 Googled iPhone Questions Series Have you ever seen the dreaded "iPhone Storage Full" message and wondered where all your storage disappeared? In this episode, we're answering one of the top Googled iPhone questions: Why is my iPhone full? And as photo organizers, we can tell you the answer is almost never just your photos. Instead, it's usua...

Bonus Tiny Task: Brain Dump Your Photo Collection Where are all of your photos? Not just the ones on your iPhone or computer, but the ones tucked away in old albums, photo boxes, external hard drives, CDs, DVDs, old computers, VHS tapes, memory cards, slides, negatives, and all the other places your photo history may still be living. This bonus Tiny Task is designed to help you take one simple ste...

Do My Photos Really Live in the Cloud? Many people say, "My photos are in the cloud," but what does that actually mean? In this Tiny Task episode, we're clearing up one of the biggest misunderstandings about Apple Photos. You'll learn what "the cloud" really is, the difference between iCloud Photos, iCloud Backup, and iCloud Drive, and why understanding these settings can give you more confidence...

Tiny Task: Understanding Shared Albums  Shared Albums are one of the most misunderstood features. You can see the photos. You can scroll through them. You may even assume they're safely tucked away in your photo library. But are they? In this Tiny Task episode, we're exploring where photos in Shared Albums actually live, what happens when you import them, and how to avoid creating extra work for y...

🎧 Show Notes Have you ever spotted a random photo, meme, recipe, or video in your Camera Roll and wondered: "Wait... where did that come from?" In this Tiny Task, we're tackling one of the most common sources of photo confusion on the iPhone. Sometimes photos and videos appear in your Photos Library even though you don't remember saving them. The reason? Certain settings in Messages and WhatsApp...

🎧 Show Notes — Tiny Task: Explore Your Photos App Ever open your Photos app, take one look around, and immediately close it again? In this Tiny Task episode, we're not organizing, deleting, or creating albums. Instead, we're taking a few minutes to simply explore the space where most of your memories live. Because before you can organize your photos, you need to feel comfortable navigating your P...

🎧 This Summer We’re Answering the Top iPhone Questions — Starting With “Where Are My Photos?” Where are your photos, anyway? If you’ve ever felt confused about where your memories actually live — your phone, iCloud, old computers, shared albums, text messages, external drives, or somewhere else entirely — this episode is for you. In this kickoff episode of our new summer series, we’re taking some...

🎙️ Tiny Task #5: Keep Going With One Small Habit If you’ve been following along these past few weeks, you might be starting to feel like this is actually something you can do. Not all at once. But in small pieces. This is the final episode in our Tiny Task series, where we’ve been helping you move past the biggest hurdles that can stop you from organizing your photos—one small step at a time. 🎧 M...

🎙️ Show Notes: Tiny Task #4 – Distractions If you’ve ever opened your photos to do something quick… and somehow ended up answering a text, checking a notification, or forgetting what you even opened your phone for… 👉 you’re not distracted. You’re just surrounded by distractions. This is the fourth episode in our Tiny Task series, where we’re helping you move past the biggest hurdles that can stop...

🎙️ Tiny Task #3: Abundance If your camera roll feels overwhelming, it’s probably not just the number of photos… 👉 it’s the number of decisions waiting for you. This is the third episode in our Tiny Task series, where we’re helping you move past the biggest hurdles that can stop you from organizing your photos—one small step at a time. Over the last couple of weeks, you’ve: mapped out where your p...

🎙️ Tiny Task #2: Pick One Device & Get Comfortable With It If you’ve ever opened your Photos app and immediately felt unsure of what you’re looking at… things look different, something feels off, or you’re not quite sure where to click—you’re not alone. And more importantly… 👉 it’s not you. It’s the tech getting in your way. This is the second episode in our Tiny Task series, where we’re help...

🎙️ Tiny Task #1: Figure Out Where Your Photos Actually Live If your photos feel like something you should deal with… but just haven’t—you’re not alone. It’s usually not about time. It’s not even about motivation. It’s the little hurdles in the way that keep you from getting started. This episode is the start of our Tiny Task series, where we break down the biggest photo organizing hurdles into sma...

Why is it so hard to start organizing your photos? In this episode, we’re breaking down the real reasons people stay stuck — and it’s not what you think. ​ After years of working with hands-on clients, VIP clients, and virtual coaching clients, we’ve seen the same patterns show up again and again. It doesn’t matter if someone has thousands of photos or hundreds of thousands — the struggle usually...

Episode Notes: What Happens When You Just Visit Your Photo Memories? What do you experience when you open your photos and simply visit your memories — no deleting, no organizing, no sharing, no pressure? In this episode of sort-it-out, Kristi and Amanda take on a simple but surprisingly emotional little challenge: spending two uninterrupted minutes just being with their photo memories. What starte...