Organise Photos by Dragging
Finally clear out your photo library. Drag photos to folders, share them, or trash them — all with simple drag-and-drop. Photos move to your iCloud Drive, actually freeing up space.
Coming soon to the App StorePhotos are moved to your folders, not copied. Clearing the queue removes them from your library, actually freeing up space.
Dropped a photo on the wrong folder? One tap puts it back — and removes the copy it saved. Nothing is deleted until you confirm.
Create destinations for anything — receipts, screenshots, work, memories to keep. Save to iCloud Drive or On My iPhone. Tap a tile to set one up, or drop a photo on an empty slot and pick its folder there — it files the photo once you save.
Folder tiles come in soft pastel or bold primary colours — or classic carbon monochrome. Pick the palette in settings, or give any folder a photo cover of its own.
The canvas grows with the screen and works in landscape — folders on one side, photos on the other, with a one-tap swap to suit your dragging hand.
Drag to the share zone to send photos to any app — Messages, Mail, AirDrop.
Drag photos to the trash zone to queue them. You’ll see exactly how many you’re about to remove before anything happens.
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Only when you say so. Dragging a photo to a folder, the share zone, or the trash adds it to a queue and removes it from the grid — but it stays in your photo library. Your library only changes when you tap Delete All and confirm. Deleted photos then go to your Recently Deleted album, where iOS keeps them for about 30 days.
Tap Undo in the photo-library header (it appears whenever an undo is available). It reverses your most recent drop: the photo returns to the grid and leaves the queue, and any copy saved to a folder is removed. You can tap Undo repeatedly to walk back through the session. Once you commit a delete, the undo history clears — after that the folder copy is the only copy.
Each folder you set up points to a real folder on iCloud Drive or On My iPhone. When you drop a photo on a folder, SwipeSorter writes the original file — same quality, same format (JPEG, PNG or HEIC) — into that folder, then queues the library copy for removal. “Move, don’t copy” means once you confirm the delete, the file lives in your folder instead of cluttering your camera roll.
Moved. A copy is written to your folder first, then the original is queued for deletion from your library. If the save fails for any reason, the original is never deleted — so you can’t lose a photo to a failed move.
Not for the app itself. SwipeSorter talks to no servers of its own. The only network use is Apple’s iCloud: if a photo lives in iCloud and isn’t on your device yet, it’s downloaded automatically before the move, and folders on iCloud Drive sync the way they normally do. Moving photos to On My iPhone works fully offline.
Tap any folder tile to configure it — or drop a photo straight onto an empty slot, which opens its setup and files that photo once you pick a folder. Either way, you can create a new iCloud Drive folder without leaving the app, or pick an existing folder anywhere in Files (iCloud Drive or On My iPhone). New folders created in‑app land in iCloud Drive / Documents / SwipeSorter.
Just one: access to your photo library, so it can show your photos, save the ones you move, and remove them after you confirm. No location, no contacts, no tracking.
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