Suddenly, I could carry every picture I had ever taken with me, and bore people with them at will… and I did! 🙂 This enabled people like me to sync their entire digital photo library onto their iPhone. In addition to photos taken with the iPhone itself, iTunes also allowed users to sync photos from their computer onto their iPhone as well. Among its many features was a 2Mp camera, and plenty of memory to hold as many photos as you wanted to take and store on your shiny new device. Steve Jobs delighted the world with the first iPhone on January 9 th 2007 (a short 8 years ago, if you can believe that!).

I acquired a new photographic instrument in 2007, even if I didn’t think about it that way at the time. I have invested in high density scanners, photo quality printers, numerous other cameras and of course, lenses. Along the journey from that distant past to the present day, I spent the outrageous sum of money that Adobe demands and acquired a legal copy of Photoshop, with which I have become quite proficient over the years. I was a teenager at the time, and I have been snapping photos ever since. I have been an enthusiastic amateur photographer ever since my dad gave me my first camera, a Mamiya 500TL 35mm SLR, back in 1971. I suspect that this post is equally applicable to iTunes users on Windows, but as I am not one of those, I cannot comment in any meaningful way. Although this post will definitely be of interest to vintage Mac users, it will also be of interest to anyone who is running iTunes on any generation of Mac, and who is frustrated by the maddeningly incomprehensible sorting of photos on their iPhone, IPad or iPod. This post tells the story and presents the solution: EXIFTool.

I have finally “cracked the code” and forced my iPhone and iPad to sort photos properly. Synopsis: Trying to get photos to sort properly on an iPhone, iPad or iPod has been an exercise in futility for years.

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