How do I rearrange order of photos inside an iPhoto album?

I can't get this to work either. Very frustrating for something that I purchased. I might as well have just stuck with the photo album that comes with the Ipad. Can't seem to get any help here, especially when you look at the date of the first message. When I "hold" the photo down on the album it never "wobbles". I don't know what people are talking about when they mention a journal. No instructions on that either.

I'm seeing a general trend where if you but any apple software, you are on your own to learn it. Not good.

I follow those exact steps because that is the way one would expect it to work. However, after selecting the picture I can't get it to move. More disappointing useless software for me now. May as well just use the original photo software that comes with the ipad.

Open the Journal (album). You should see the photos listed. Click "edit" in top right. Now, hold finger on one image until they wobble...drag to the desired location. Click "edit" to complete.

Pad and iPhones display pictures by “date created” which is not necessarily the same as “date taken”. Basically all pictures start with a creation date based on the date the picture was taken however if the picture is saved under a different name or is copied, a new “date created” will be established in the metadata. Unfortunately in iOS you don't have the options available in OS X or Windows to sort pictures for display. To display the pictures in your iPad in the order you want to see them try the following:

1. In your PC’s File Manager create a new folder under My Pictures and name it as you wish, lets say Vacation. That name will be the name that will show up in your iPad.

2. Delete the iPod Photo Cache folder (if there is one) under My Pictures (iPod is correct, not iPad). Usually a new gets created with every iTunes sync.

3. Copy, not move, the pictures you want into the Vacation folder one by one in the order you want them displayed in your iPad. By copying each picture in the right order a new “date created” with be established in the metadata of the photos.

4) If you want to see the pictures in your PC in the new order, select View > Details and sort by “date created”. If “date created” is not shown in the header, right click on the header and tick “date created” in the drop down menu. Go back to "View" and select “Icons” and you will see the pictures in order.

5) Open iTunes and sync the Vacation folder to your iPad (make sure the folder you had synced previously is not also selected, that way it gets deleted). The pictures will now show up in the order you want, essentially any order that you chose if you copy them in that order. This works for iPhones as well.

Not straightforward but works:

1) Create a new album

2) Go to yr disarranged album, pick the photo that u want to be the first one and Add it to the new one.

3) ( Optional) Delete the photo that was moved from your old album ( helps a lot to clarify the picking process)

4) Pick the next photo and repeat the process

5) Keep going until you are done

6) Delete old album ( should be empty if 3) is opted) and rename new one as u like

Note : When picking photos from yr old album u can save some time if u select several photos if u find them already in the order u want them to be even if u have to skip some in the middle, providing the order is right.

How to reorder photos within an album.

In Photos app select Albums.

Open the album you want to reorder.

Tap Select then tap Select All.

Drag photos to reorder.

Tap Done to finish.

Works on my iphone 6 iOS 10.2.1. Jeff S

Your instructions work but only on a subset album. Thanks. BTW, to those reading this post, this doesn't work for me in the Camera Roll album. There is no Select All in the Camera Roll, nor People, nor Places. But it will work on other albums that I created.

I Just tried this on my iPad and while the photo didn't shake, it did move. I opened an album and clicked on "select" in the upper right corner. I put my finger on a photo and left it there. When the photo turned dark I was able to move it to where I wanted it. Yeah!

I have not found a way but waiting to see if anyone else knows. You can put them in order in a journal and run a sideshow from there.

1. Go to photo album

2. Click edit

3. Touch and hold on an image

4. Drag to re-arrange (similar to how you re-arragange apps on the home screen)

5. Click done when finished

OMG! I've been trying to do this for months! Clicking Edit before I started moving them made it happen! Thank you so much!

It’s possible to change the order of images within an album. After opening up an album, tap Select, then tap and hold any image until it starts to float. Then drag the image to another position and let go. All the other images will automatically shuffle to make room for the picture. Once you’ve changed the order, tap Done and it will be saved.

Perfect fix. Thanks

There is no edit in the album window in my version of iPhone 7 . You have to click on select and then tap and hold and move the photo