Sort photos on iPad: I have just moved to an iPad and started to load my holiday pictures on it to show to friends. I have put them in different directories, so can select a single...

DaveMM Loc: Port Elizabeth, South Africa

I have just moved to an iPad and started to load my holiday pictures on it to show to friends. I have put them in different directories, so can select a single topic or area. However, using Apples built-in Photos App the photos in any directory display in file-date order, i.e. the date and time when when I edited them, not when I took them.

Can anyone please tell me how I can show the pictures in date-taken order (or at the very least filename order, as I could do on Android, as I always keep the IMG_XXXX of the original filename as the start of the edited filename). Can this be done in Apple's Photos, or can anyone recommend another App which does this.

Thanks in advance - UHH members have usually come up with solutions for my previous questions.

Dave

regalm

If you go into the album you created, select the picture you want to move with your finger by holding it on the image until you see that it is ‘tagged’ then drag it to the location you want.... works for me all the time.

DaveMM Loc: Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Thank you for this tip - it works well although it becomes a bit of a nuisance when there are a lot of pictures in an album. It is just a pity Apple don't have a way for it to be done automatically by date taken.

rjaywallace Loc: Wisconsin

regalm wrote:

If you go into the album you created, select the picture you want to move with your finger by holding it on the image until you see that it is ‘tagged’ then drag it to the location you want.... works for me all the time.

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regalm

DaveMM wrote:

Thank you for this tip - it works well although it becomes a bit of a nuisance when there are a lot of pictures in an album. It is just a pity Apple don't have a way for it to be done automatically by date taken.

I agree! Can’t believe they haven’t come up with it.

JohnFrim Loc: Somewhere in the Great White North.

My wife got me an iPad thinking I would be able to “manage” my files while traveling. Unfortunately Apple thinks there is only one way to manage photos, and that is their way. I think it sucks, because like you, I want to work with filenames.

There are 3rd party apps that will enable you to work with filenames, but they have their own quirks.

I finally bought a MacBook Pro so that I have a real computer while on the road.

Linckinn Loc: Okatie, SC and Edgartown, MA

My thousands of pictures in Apple Photo app always display in date taken order, whether on iPad, iPhone, or MacBook. I don’t recall ever changing a setting. Call Apple tech support, and post the result. I would be curious.

ezslides

Photo Manager Pro, now on version 5 will do things the way you want them to be done. $2.99.

EdU239 Loc: The Northeast

DaveMM wrote:

I have just moved to an iPad and started to load m... (show quote)

I may be missing something but on my iPad there are two indexing systems: Photos, which is chronological by date taken, or Albums, which shows the albums you have created plus a generic Camera Roll album. As far as I can tell, edited pictures in Photos stay in order of date taken, even if you create a duplicate for editing.

Toment Loc: FL, IL

EdU239 wrote:

I may be missing something but on my iPad there are two indexing systems: Photos, which is chronological by date taken, or Albums, which shows the albums you have created plus a generic Camera Roll album. As far as I can tell, edited pictures in Photos stay in order of date taken, even if you create a duplicate for editing.

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Spiney Loc: Reading, PA

Lightroom mobile for iPad. I haven’t tried it, but since I pay for Adobe CC monthly I’m going to try it. I can’t stand not seeing file names in Apple Photo. My wife would show images to our daughter of maternity portraits we did for her on the iPad. She would heart ❤️ her favorites. But if they were close in looks to another image I couldn’t ID them by file name.

Is Google Photo any better?

I think at one time I tried ACDSee because it gave EXIF data.

I wish when they were supporting it Google would have ported Picassa to IOS.

DaveMM Loc: Port Elizabeth, South Africa

EdU239 wrote:

I may be missing something but on my iPad there are two indexing systems:

I don't know whether you are talking about photos taken with the iPad, but in my case I am taking photos on a camera or a smartphone, editing them in Elements and exporting the ones I want onto the iPad then organising them into albums. In this case, the Photos part shows the date on which I exported them to the iPad and the Album shows them in the date order in which they were saved after editing.

Toment Loc: FL, IL

My suggestion is to put them in Photos first on your computer. They will automatically be on your iPad then.
Do your elements work (most of which you can do in Photos) after they’ve been put into Photos

EdU239 Loc: The Northeast

DaveMM wrote:

I don't know whether you are talking about photos taken with the iPad, but in my case I am taking photos on a camera or a smartphone, editing them in Elements and exporting the ones I want onto the iPad then organising them into albums. In this case, the Photos part shows the date on which I exported them to the iPad and the Album shows them in the date order in which they were saved after editing.

In my case the photos were loaded on the iPad directly from the camera and then edited so that probably accounts for the difference.

Toment Loc: FL, IL

I just thought of something. When you open Photos, be sure you are looking at the photographs under the “photos” tab,
Not under the albums tab.
Photos organizes according to date and time in the “photos “ tab.