Can you tag/label photos in iPhone/iOS?

A much-needed feature, can't believe this hasn't been implemented yet and all they have in its place is an automatic person tagging feature that doesn't really work.

I have just sent the following feedback to Apple, I urge you to all send a request for this feature at https://www.apple.com/feedback/photos-ios.html:

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The Photos app has one glaring flaw: a lack of a proper tagging feature. Yes, it does have a feature where it attempts to automatically detect and tag specific people, but (1) it's only used for tagging people, not other things, (2) it still requires significant manual intervention to add new and organise existing people/photos.

What is needed, and will be a game changer, is the ability to manually tag any photo from any album in the Photos app, with any word the user chooses, from people to places to things to ideas. Suddenly, thousands of photos will be organised neatly with a few taps, and what was like searching for a needle in a haystack before can now be tracked down in a few seconds. This improves on the current People tagging feature by offering much more control and versatility.

I Have not personally used this app, but after some research, this seemed like it would what you're looking to do.

Exif Editor and Viewer by Harald Meyer

https://appsto.re/au/s5pyH.i

This app will edit the metadata of the photos, but you will not be able to search for the photos and find them through the photos app on your iPhone, no app will be able to do this.

I contacted Apple and the best work-around is to create an album for the keyword and add photos to that album.

Here is the link showing how to do this:

http://m.imore.com/how-organize-photos-and-videos-albums-your-iphone-or-ipad

For example, I just now created an album entitled "recipes" and added all my screen shots of recipes that I want to try. It was driving me crazy searching all of my photos to find the one recipe I was looking for while walking down the grocery isles.

I also suggest that everyone with this same frustration enter a suggestion to Apple. I already did and hope the next version will allow us to label and add keywords to our photos.

Did you ever find a solution. This is exactly what I am trying to do—assign a “subject” or “label” for photos to find through a search by that name, not a person. I currently can find “dog” through search and my iphone brings up all 600+ photos of dogs in my icloud, which is great, but I want to assign a specific holiday, or family or cooking and that is not currently possible on my iphone. I can make albums but too time consuming and too many in history to start THAT project. Hope Apple comes up with a labeling system to group photos soon!

I am frustrated by this obvious omission as well. Apple should add this basic functionality. And while they are at, please add star ratings to Photos. It’s frustrating trying to organize photos in this app.

I'm having this issue too. We went to the zoo last weekend and when my son asks Siri to show him a picture of a giraffe, Siri opens the photos app, but the app does not show anything.

I need to be able to label the photos so at least the feature with Siri actually works.

Amazingly I had this question too today ( 30-05-2017 ).

Google revealed this:

iPhoto for iOS (iPad): Flag, tag, or hide photos

The article was published: Oct 25, 2013

Off course it is all too easy to also mention to which version of iOS this applies. Helps people find something to only again search and not find it on your device...

So it seemed to be possible at one time... but not anymore.

Apple, chime in please? And don't take features away...

Erwin Panen

What's particularly upsetting is that this apparently used to be possible, and Apple removed it. I first found an article from Apple explaining how to do it, and when it didn't work, I checked the date - 2013.

Sigh.

You can't search metadata in photos through the iPhone Photos app, so essentially what you're looking for doesn't exist. I believe there are some updates to the Photos app in iOS 10, which may help you do what you are trying to do.

I too am wondering if there is an app that can do this for iOS. I am on Android and there is a great app called f-stop that can do it, but it doesn't appear they have an iOS counterpart. I have a customer that I'm trying to replicate my android photo management solution for. Easily adding tags and ratings into photo's exif data is the best way to make a portable, organized photo library. Google's photos service no longer trashes exif data on backed up photos too (not sure if true on iOS photos), so the world is one step closer to my perfect solution :)

How can Apple not have such a fundamental feature in Photos. I am on the precipice of jumping off the Apple cliff and dumping all my Apple products. Every time I search the web on how to do something with an Apple product I invariably get the response: ‘You can’t do the with Apple’. Mind boggling. Apple: are you listening?

I have found a way to add text to the forefront of the photo but really want to be able to tag in the background so you can add notes or keywords for searching.

For text in within the photo go to edit>... (dots on bottom right next to "done")markup>+ (circled symbol)>text

This will give you a text box in the photo to add. It is a royal pain to edit the text and change the font color so you can see it against the colors within the photo itself.

on your iPhone, tap the photo you have just taken (bottom left of screen) so that it is displayed on screen > tap edit > tap the circle with three dots in the top centre > tap markup > tap ok to turn off live photo for this photo > tap the plus sign in the bottom right > tap text > you can add and move around a label for the photo.