How to organize screenshots on iPhone

Screenshots are the iPhone’s notepad: a boarding pass, a receipt, a parking spot, an address someone sent. A few stay useful for months. Most are useless a day later, and they bury the ones you need. This guide is about keeping the good ones organized. If you want to clear them all out instead, see how to delete all screenshots on iPhone. Tested on iOS 27; the album steps are the same on iOS 26, and keywords are new in iOS 27.

Where your screenshots already are

You do not need to gather screenshots: Photos does it for you. Open Photos, tap Collections, scroll to Media Types and tap Screenshots. Every image your iPhone marked as a screenshot is there, newest first, and it stays in the main library too.

On an iPhone that has analyzed your library, Utilities in Collections also groups some screenshots by what is in them, such as Receipts, QR Codes and Documents. Those are a good first stop when you are looking for one specific kind.

Decide what to keep

Before you organize anything, sort the keepers from the clutter. A quick test: will you need this screenshot again, and is it saved anywhere else?

Keep	Let go
Tickets, boarding passes and QR codes for upcoming trips or events	Codes and passes that have expired
Receipts and warranties you may need to claim	Order confirmations once the parcel arrived
Addresses, instructions and notes you have not saved elsewhere	Directions to places you already went
Conversations or confirmations you may need as proof	Memes, jokes and things you already shared

If the information belongs in another app, move it there and let the screenshot go: an address in Contacts or Maps, a recipe or a list in Notes, a document in Files.

File the keepers in an album

An album turns a pile of screenshots into a short list you can open in a second. One or two are enough, for example Receipts and Tickets and Travel.

1. In Screenshots, tap Select and tap the screenshots you want to keep together.
2. Tap the More button at the top, then Add To.
3. Tap New Album and name it, or Album to add them to one you already have.

The album appears under Albums in Collections. Adding a screenshot to an album makes no copy, so it costs no space. The guide to organizing photos on iPhone explains why.

Add keywords and captions (iOS 27)

iOS 27 lets you tag any photo or screenshot with keywords, which is handy for screenshots you want to find by topic rather than by album.

1. Open the screenshot and swipe up, or tap the info button.
2. Tap Add a Caption and describe it in a few words, such as “Boarding pass for the Bali flight”.
3. Tap Add Keywords, type a word such as tickets, then tap the return key to add another. Tap the checkmark to save.

Captions and keywords are what you type in Search later. To use a keyword as a filter, open Collections, tap your account picture at the top right, then Manage Keywords. Tap a keyword and choose Add to Favorite: as the screen says, keyword favorites are added to the library’s filters. In Library, tap the sort button, then Keywords, and pick it.

Keep screenshots out of your library view

If screenshots crowd out your photos when you scroll, hide them from the library grid without deleting anything:

1. In Library, tap the sort button at the top.
2. Tap View Options.
3. Under Show, tap Screenshots to remove its checkmark.

The screenshots stay in the Screenshots collection, in your albums and in Search. Tap the option again to bring them back. Shared with You, in the same list, does the same for images people sent you in Messages.

Then clear the rest

Once the keepers are in an album, the rest of the Screenshots collection is clutter. In the Photos app, tap Select and tap the screenshots to delete, leaving out the ones you filed. Avoid Select All: a screenshot you put in an album is still in the Screenshots collection, and deleting it there removes it from the album too. The guide to deleting all screenshots has the steps, and what to check before you select all.

Sort and file screenshots in one pass with PrunePic

In Photos, choosing what to keep and filing it are two separate passes through the same grid. PrunePic’s Screenshots mode does both at once: it shows only your screenshots, one at a time and full screen, so you read each one before you decide.

• Swipe left on the expired code or the meme. It waits in the PrunePic Trash until you empty it.
• Swipe up to keep a screenshot as it is.
• Drag right and drop it on a pinned album, such as Receipts and Tickets. It goes into that album in Photos.

Pin up to three albums from the Choose Album sheet so they are always in the tray. Album filing explains how. Screenshots you keep are saved as reviewed and do not come back, so next time you only see the new ones. Screenshots mode is part of PrunePic Pro, and your screenshots never leave your iPhone.

Common mistakes

• Deleting before filing. A screenshot deleted from the library is gone from every album too.
• Too many albums. One album for receipts and tickets beats ten you never open.
• Keeping screenshots of things saved elsewhere. If the ticket is in your Wallet or the address in Maps, the screenshot is a duplicate.
• Hiding instead of sorting. Hiding screenshots from the library tidies the view but frees no space.

The bottom line

Your screenshots are already in Collections › Media Types › Screenshots. Keep the useful ones in one or two albums, tag them with keywords in iOS 27 so Search finds them, hide screenshots from the library grid if they bother you, and delete the rest.