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The Photos application packaged with iOS 4 always sorted the photos by the "date taken" from the EXIF data.
The Photos application packaged with iOS 5 uses some other sorting scheme. Possibly "none".
Can anyone shed any light, or is this a bona fide bug?
I found this discussion by Google search. I must say I originally have bought the iPAD (2) as photo displaying device. First shock was to find out that it was not possible in the photo app to make one's own custom order by simply rearranging pics in albums by touch screen operation. What? "Custom sort" is a feature of even the most basic photo management programs.
Then I slowly got used to the time stamp (photo taken on....) order. WIth iOS 5 everything seems messed up now.
I mean this is the lamest software fail I have come across in a long time. Does anybody at Apple think about what they do? I read that there are people here who have thousands of photos ordered since the iPAD came out.
Now not only do they give a choice of how to order the photos, they also change the way the crap software "itunes" syncs them automatically and without any user option.
This is beyond useless, beyond useless. Apple needs to finally give the user a "custom sort" option. Let them quickly sort photos as you can sort the aps on the iPAD desktop. Easy with your finger.
Until then, the photo app is the user- unfriendliest piece of software I know.
User friendly? Hardly! Sorry, but this is so frustrating...
Bernie
I've just had an update to the bug that I filed with Apple about this, the update says that this problem is fixed in the iTunes 10.6.3 GM
The iPad now sorts the photos by 'date modified' for some strange reason.
Easy way around this if the photos are still on your PC is
Download and install PictureGo (http://www.picturego.nl/)
Start PictureGo and right click on the folder containing the photos
Select 'Reset file dates to picture date taken' (tick 'include subfolders' if there are any)
Start itunes and untick sync photos, select remove photos at pop-up box prompt and apply
Check that photos have gone from iPad
Resync photo folder and the photos should now be back and in date and time order
Forgot to mention, firstly delete 'ipad photo cache' folder from inside photos folder on the PC if it exists
Not sure what you mean.
I find that when I sync smart folders from Aperture on my Mac to my iPad or iPhone, it's iPhoto for iOS that doesn't display them in chronological order. Bug?
It's so stupid that you have to do that - why not just have an option? But hey, it worked, and for that, I'm very grateful BillfromBenicia
This worked for me too. Definitely still a bug, but at least I now have a workaround. Thanks for that.
This is completely unnecessary if you are using lightroom. Just remove the EXIF data on export and name the images sequentially.
iPad photo sort order changed with iOS 5
