Q: How do I find a photo in new iOS7 photo app?
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Sep 26, 2013 1:08 AMby Richatom,So have I now got to tag all my photos in order to find them? This seems like a backward step to me. The photo map was so intuitive and a pleasure to use. Squinting through hundreds of tiny thumbnails, or having to tag them all is the sort of logic that Microsoft would use.
In reply to nacdenki, yes I know that a photo can be displayed on a map once I have found the photo, but this is not much interest to me.
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Sep 26, 2013 1:10 AMby nachdenki,Nono, you can actually display multiple photos on a map and no, they don't need to be tagged for that to work.
When you go into your Photos app, select "Photos" at the bottom, then go back until you reach the "Years" view. There you have your photos sorted by year and besides every year, a list of locations that you have visited is displayed. If you tap that list, all photos(!) from that year will be put on a map.
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Sep 26, 2013 1:16 AMby Richatom,Still, this requires me to remember what year I visited (say) Philippines, scroll back through (say) 20 years of photos, then scroll through the locations I was in during that year. This all takes time and is frankly quite tedious and visually unpleasant.
Previously, I could just open the map, and zoom straight to Philippines.
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Sep 26, 2013 1:16 AMby ckuan,Richatom wrote:
So have I now got to tag all my photos in order to find them? This seems like a backward step to me. The photo map was so intuitive and a pleasure to use. Squinting through hundreds of tiny thumbnails, or having to tag them all is the sort of logic that Microsoft would use.
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No, the software is smart enough to use the photos META locations for the tags.
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Sep 26, 2013 1:36 AMby Richatom,Yes, I realise that the software uses the meta data to label the photos, but it is still very hard to find photos. It requires a great deal of finger work and reading to do something that could previously be accomplished intuitively with a pinch-zoom on the map.
I find this new photo app a backward step compared to the old one. It is the sort of software that Microsoft would design - just not up to the former high standards of Apple.
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Oct 1, 2013 4:28 AMby Richatom,I rang Apple support today about this issue. After a great deal of polite argument with a senior support person, Apple have agreed to exchange my iPhone 4S and iPad 2 for reconditioned replacements that still have OS6.1.3 on them, and so still have the Photo Map.
They accepted my argument that they should have warned in their own description of OS7 that Photo Map (and Wikipedia search on Spotlight) had been removed.
I am therefore off to the local Apple Store tomorrow to pick up the reconditioned items.
