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Moving photo to Note’s

When moving a picture to Note’s, can I then delete it out of pictures on my iPad, and it will still be in Note’s?

Posted on Jul 19, 2023 11:06 AM

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Posted on Jul 19, 2023 5:15 PM

Presumably you refer to the native Notes App…


Photos inserted within Notes have no direct link to your Photo Library. As such, if a photo was added to a Note from the Photo Library, you can delete the source photo from the Library without impacting the image embedded within the Note.


You can simply verify this behaviour with a test image that you save to your Photo Library (downloaded from anywhere). Just insert the Photo in a Note - and then delete the original photo from the Photo Library. Being a simple test, to gain confidence in the process, you’ve nothing to lose but a few moments of your time 🙂

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Jul 19, 2023 5:15 PM in response to gaylefromocala

Presumably you refer to the native Notes App…


Photos inserted within Notes have no direct link to your Photo Library. As such, if a photo was added to a Note from the Photo Library, you can delete the source photo from the Library without impacting the image embedded within the Note.


You can simply verify this behaviour with a test image that you save to your Photo Library (downloaded from anywhere). Just insert the Photo in a Note - and then delete the original photo from the Photo Library. Being a simple test, to gain confidence in the process, you’ve nothing to lose but a few moments of your time 🙂

Moving photo to Note’s

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