Auto Organizing Your Pictures in Apple Photos

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When I was somewhat younger than now, I tended to leave all my clothes where they fell, thinking, I suppose, that my house elf would fold and stash them away in my bedroom closet and chest of drawers. Instead, it cost me precious hours each Saturday afternoon to put things right and finally squashed my notion of a self-organized room that spontaneously put everything in the right place. 

Until now. 

Apple Photos is photo organizing for the organizationally challenged. Using the date/time stamps on each digital photo and video, Apple Photos sorts your images into the proper spot in your collection without you doing a thing. No need to create folders and albums by year and month, it's already done for you. Just use the Photos tab on either Mac or iPhone to quickly scan through your organized library.

It's one of the great benefits of the Apple system, that so much of the organizing is done for you. You can focus, instead, on the personal stuff like making Albums for special events, milestone dates, and personal collections that span years - Our summer house over the years, for instance.

Here's the thing. In order for your Library to work, you need to have the correct dates on all your images. This is pretty easy with photos taken on your iPhone because the date stamp is always correct to local time. But if you use a digital camera, it may not be so. Be sure to check and adjust the time and date to match your iPhone. And scanned images will never reflect the actual date and time the original photo was made, so those will need to be adjusted. 

Having a self-organized photo collection is a real treat and more and more helpful in our busy lives. Now if Apple would just think about creating a self-organizing home . . .