Custom photo File names

I never really thought about it but I have 4 people in my family and all have iPhones and we often wind up with many duplicate file names when I merge all the photos in our archive.

Is there a way that each iPhone can put a prefix on the filename so we know the person in the family that took the photos?

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person1_img_0101.heic

person2_img_0101.heic

Posted on Jun 1, 2023 10:34 AM

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léonie

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Jun 1, 2023 11:08 AM in response to mjr0483

Are the iPhone models the same?

Otherwise you could use a smart album with the rule "camera Model is ..." for each of your iPhones to separate the photos according to camera.

Then you can tag the photos with a keyword with the person who took the photos or add the name to the title.

The title can be used as the filename, when you export the photos from Photos for Mac.

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