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Three ways in, depending on what you want to do.

1. Media Roll – your camera roll, newest first. Sort as you browse.
2. Start Sifting – set up a focused sorting session for a batch of media.
3. Shortcuts – Resume last sift carries on where you stopped, New & Unsifted starts on media you haven’t sorted yet, and Trash appears when you have items waiting to be deleted.
4. View Collections – browse your groups. Uncollected media shows what isn’t in a Collection yet.
5. Settings – media access, phone albums, preferences and the tour under Help.
6. Bottom bar – jump between Home, Sift and Collections.

Setting up a Sift

Three quick steps, then you sift.

1. How do you want to sift? – Quick Clean uses the standard swipes (up Keep, down Trash, left Later, right Favourite) and up to four Keep Collections. Sort into Collections puts a Collection on each swipe direction; empty directions do nothing.
2. What do you want to sift? – media you haven’t sorted yet, one or more Collections, or a phone album such as Pictures or WhatsApp.
3. Save as a profile – keep your directions and Keep Collections for next time, and choose Make this my default to open Sift with it.
4. Start – begin sifting. You can stop at any time and resume where you left off.

Sifting

One item at a time. Swipe it towards a tab, or tap the tab.

1. Up – Keep. Keeps it as it is. Hold, then swipe up to drop it into one of your Keep Collections.
2. Down – Trash. Marks it for deletion. Nothing is deleted until you complete the Sift.
3. Left – Later. Saves it to come back to another time.
4. Right – Favourite. For the ones you love.
5. Rotate, Preview and Undo – turn the card, open it full screen (pinch to zoom), or undo your previous decision.
6. Review – shows everything you’ve decided so far.
7. Leave – stop safely. Your Sift is saved and you can resume it from Home.

If you’ve set up Sort into Collections, the tabs show your Collection names instead, for example “Up: Family · Right: Holidays”.

Review and Complete

Check your decisions before anything changes on your phone.

1. Change – change or undo any decision.
2. Apply to phone albums – moves items into their phone albums. Android asks you to allow it first.
3. Complete and delete – finishes the Sift and deletes its Trash from your phone. Deleted items go to your phone’s Recycle bin for about 30 days.
4. Complete, keep them in Trash – finishes the Sift without deleting anything. Your Trash items stay on your phone until you’re ready.

Changed your mind? Open Trash › Recently deleted in Siftory, or your phone’s Gallery Recycle bin, to bring items back.

Media Roll

Browse like your Gallery, and sort as you go.

1. Swipe up (or tap) to keep it in the target. Start with Keep, or choose a Collection.
2. Swipe down to send it to Trash. Undo appears for a few seconds.
3. Swipe left and right to browse. Pinch or double-tap to zoom.
4. Swipe up to: – change where “up” goes, or create a new Collection such as “Beach day”.
5. Buttons – show or hide the Keep, Trash and arrow buttons.
6. Done – offers to delete what you trashed. If you haven’t trashed anything it reads ‹ Home.

Collections and phone albums

Your groups, in Siftory and in Gallery.

1. A Collection – each item lives in one Collection. Sort it somewhere else and it moves.
2. Phone album – Collections can be real albums in Gallery: all of them, or only the ones you choose (Settings › Phone albums). Changes you make in Gallery show up in Siftory.
3. Link a phone album – turn an existing album into a Collection, or open a Collection to link or change its album.
4. New Collection – create a group to sort into.

Items only move into phone albums when you tap Apply to phone albums in Review, and Android asks you first.

Settings

Open Settings from the cog on Home.

1. Media Access – shows whether Siftory can see all your media or only what you chose, and links to your phone settings to change it.
2. Phone albums – Every Collection is a phone album gives new Collections an album in Gallery too. Only the ones I choose lets you make albums from a Collection’s page or from Review.
3. Sorting defaults – the profile Sift opens with.
4. Safety and review – Always review first shows a summary before applying a Sift; Keep undo visible leaves Undo available while sorting.
5. Experience and accessibility – Reduce motion and Larger action labels.
6. Plan and access – your plan and free decisions, and the Siftory Lifetime upgrade.
7. Privacy, help and app information – our privacy promise, the tour, help and feedback, and About Siftory.