I think OP is describing using their main Photos album as an inbox of sorts, emptying it out by filing photos away. On iOS even when you add a photo to an album it still exists in the main album.

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lnsru 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

I just went into trades and I do a picture every other hour of my work. It really makes me mad, that I can’t properly separate this photo-documentation from my personal private pictures. It’s a complete mess now in the main folder… Next phone will be one with GrapheneOS.

	▲	9dev 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Kind of sounds like your actual problem is not having separate devices for personal and work usage?

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jamesponddotco 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Ah, yeah, that makes sense. I simply ignore the main view and go straight to the albums. In iOS 26 it defaults to your last view, so that works for me.