How a New IPhone Feature Can Help You Digitally Catalog Your Wardrobe
Your outfits are amazing. In fact, it’s too cool to keep knowledge of them all in your head. Posting your OOTDs (Outfits of the Day) to Insta and TikTok is the traditional way to catalog your everyday looks, but if you have an iPhone running iOS 16, there’s a more efficient – not to mention cooler – method you could use.
Among the many new features coming with iOS 16 is the ability to instantly copy the subject of a photo and paste it anywhere . This feature is amazingly easy to use: just touch and hold an object on any photo, wait for iOS to outline it, then swipe and watch the object lift off the page like magic. You can then use your second finger to open any app you like and drag the image into it, or copy the theme to save it to your iPhone’s clipboard. This is a simple yet powerful feature that can be used in many different ways.
One of these ways is extremely creative. TikTok user macaulay_flower shared his method for cataloging the many outfits in his wardrobe. He still takes pictures, as many who share OOTD would, but he doesn’t stop there. Instead, he uses iOS 16’s new photos feature to copy himself and his outfit from a photo before pasting the fit into an existing note, along with all the other outfits he’s already cataloged.
He can then click on one of the outfits to see it up close. If he wants to see another, he can easily move on to the next one.
Once you’ve copied and pasted yourself from the original photo, you can safely delete it without worrying about losing your outfit. So your Photos app doesn’t have to be cluttered with thousands of photos of your outfits; it’s all neatly contained in one note.
If you have a lot of outfits but no clear way to keep them organized, this method might be just what you need. It’s also perfect for shopping: you can order a bunch of new clothes for free, try them on, and catalog them in the Notes app. Then scroll through and compare and contrast how you feel about each one. You can even share a note with others to get their opinion instead of sending them photo after photo. (Bonus: you’ll have a handy directory that you can use as reaction images or to create memes.)