How to turn off automatic photo sorting in camera roll?

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How to turn off automatic photo sorting in camera roll?

Hi,

I was wondering if there was a way to turn off the automatic sorting of pictures added to the camera roll? My problem is that I hardly take any pictures of my own using my ipad; instead I like to save funny pictures/memes, screen shots, fan art, etc I find on the internet. I have a ton of those kinds of pictures but the camera roll sorting feature makes it extremely hard to find pics that I JUST added because it sorts them by the date THEY WERE MADE. This is a huge problem because some of those memes are extremely old and I have no idea when they were made, so I end up having to search through hundreds of my pictures by month, years, etc just to find the one I recently added. Is there a way to turn this off so that the photos are just in the order of when YOU YOURSELF added them to your camera roll? For example, in the old version all of my newly added pics would be the very last picture at the bottom of the whole group.

I apologize if there is an easy fix to this problem, but I have not been able to locate one if there is.

I have an iPad 2 and the newest version of ios 7 installed.

Thanks

iPad 2, iOS 7.1.1, iPad is not used for business

Posted on May 19, 2014 1:49 PM

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Answer 1

Jul 27, 2017 9:23 AM in response to Mary London

Hi Mary London. If you view the Camera Roll album (tap Albums at the bottom, not Photos), the photos appear in the order they were added, newest at the bottom.

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Answer 2

Jul 27, 2017 6:59 AM in response to bobseufert

Thank you, bobseufert. That's very kind of you to suggest this, but as all photos are already sorted by time into "moments" on our iPhones, it would be a lot easier if Apple just stopped messing with such things and let US choose how we sort our photos rather than imposing their sorting on us.

Come on Apple, at least let us turn off your latest (un)"helpful" iOS feature.

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Answer 3

Jul 28, 2017 12:12 AM in response to Diana.McCall

Thanks so much for this, Diana.McCall.

I'm perplexed as I have been using the Camera Roll as you kindly suggested. It only started to arrange photos in date order with the last iosupdate (10.3.2? I've just updated to 10.3.3) and even then it was intermittent - sometimes I would download photos from Dropbox and they would be "lost" on my Camera Roll as they were arranged in date order. Thanks again and I'll hope that this was just a temporary glitch, dealt with in iOS 10.3.3.

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Answer 4

bobseufert

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May 19, 2014 1:58 PM in response to Digisurfer56

One solution is to take a screen shot of the photo. That should make it last in line.

Another solution. Make a new album. Transfer the photos to the new album. Then change the photo order, by tapping select, hold your finger on the photo, move it, tap done.

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