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Default Naming Convention for Photo File Names

Hello! I love my iPhone, and I love my other iPhone too. I create photos on my iPhone 6s, and my iPhone 11 Pro Max. They both are logged into my iCloud account and they both put photos into my Photos library. Unless I remember the number of the current file, there is no way to quickly determine which photo was made by which phone. I would love for Apple (and a lot of other people would love it too) if Apple would add a feature that would allow the user to change the file name format to include the phone name in the file name. I know the meta data has it, but it would be nice to have the file name contain it.


Could this be added?


Thanks.

iPhone 11 Pro Max

Posted on Jan 25, 2023 10:24 AM

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Posted on Feb 16, 2023 6:29 PM

Me too, I would love it if there was an option to change the naming convention, especially something like yyyymmdd_hhmmss.jpg, so that the photos can be easily filed chronologically.


I would love to also see a watermark feature, such as date, time and location added to a photo taken. Very handy when using for work purposes.

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Feb 16, 2023 6:29 PM in response to Mark Anderson19

Me too, I would love it if there was an option to change the naming convention, especially something like yyyymmdd_hhmmss.jpg, so that the photos can be easily filed chronologically.


I would love to also see a watermark feature, such as date, time and location added to a photo taken. Very handy when using for work purposes.

Feb 17, 2023 12:09 AM in response to VegoV

> something like yyyymmdd_hhmmss.jpg, so that the photos can be easily filed chronologically


I use GraphicConverter to rename images and movies and to edit metadata before feeding them to Photos. My naming scheme below (if there is no EXIF date, then the file dates can be used instead). AFAIK A Better Finder Rename can do the same. exiftool can do many other tricks such as inserting the camera model to the filename, just check which tag the camera puts to the image metadata and make a command to insert it to the filename (this might needs some learning, though).


exiftool -a -G1 -s 2022-1224-1928-36.jpg 
[IFD0]          Make                            : Canon
[IFD0]          Model                           : Canon EOS R6
[ExifIFD]       LensModel                       : RF50mm F1.8 STM
[XMP-xmp]       CreatorTool                     : Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 12.0.1 (Macintosh)
[XMP-xmpMM]     HistoryParameters               : converted from image/x-canon-cr3 to image/jpeg, saved to new location
[...]


Default Naming Convention for Photo File Names

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