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Do you love taking photos? Whether you're a casual photography fan or a professional content creator, you likely want consistency in your photo editing. Instead of making the same changes to each of your images, now you can make the changes to one image, then copy those edits to another image. Let's cover how to copy photo edits on iPhone Photos.
Why You'll Love This Tip
- Save time by automatically copying and pasting your photo edits from one image to another.
- Easily recreate the same effects and lighting across multiple photos.
How to Copy Edits in Photos
For more nifty photo editing and camera tips, sign up for our free Tip of the Day newsletter. When you make edits to a photo, you can copy any edits made in the Adjust and Filter settings. In other words, Auto, Exposure, Brilliance, and other filters you see listed in these areas. However, you cannot copy markups or angle adjustments made to a photo. Unfortunately, that means you can't rotate a batch of photos all at once with this feature.
Copy Photo Edits on iPhone or iPad One by One
- Open the Photos app and select the photo you want to edit.
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- Tap Edit.
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- Apply your edits, then tap the more icon in the top-right corner.
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- Tap Copy Edits.
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- Tap Done to save your edits in the current photo.
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- Open another photo to which you want to apply the edits. Tap Edit.
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- Tap the more icon in the top right corner.
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- Tap Paste Edits.
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- Tap Done to save your changes.
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How to Copy & Paste Edits to Multiple Photos
If you want to paste the same edits to a batch of photos, here's how:
- Complete steps 1-5 above.
- In your Photo Library, tap Select.
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- Tap to select at least one photo to which you'd like to apply the same edits. (Selected photos will display a checkmark in the bottom-right corner.)
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- Tap the more icon in the bottom-right corner.
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- Tap Paste Edits.
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If you don't like the edits made, you can select the same photos again, tap the more icon, and select Revert to Originals. One thing you can't do with the Photos app, is blurring parts of photos that aren't the backgrounds of Portrait mode shots. Learn how to blur a picture on iPhone.
Editing photos is easier than ever with this Photos app function. If you need to back up your photos, you can also learn how to transfer photos from your iPhone to your computer.
