iPhone 5 For Dummies, 6th Edition

Organizing Your Places, Faces, and Events

We’ve already showed you how pictures on the iPhone can be organized into albums. Apple has also added iPhone support for the nifty Places, Faces, and Events features, which are familiar to Mac owners who use iPhoto software.

Consult Chapter 3, on syncing, for a refresher on getting data to and from a computer to your iPhone and back, a process that is even simpler since the presence of iCloud. When the iPhone is connected to a Mac, you can sync photo events (pictures taken around birthdays, anniversaries, and so on) or faces (all the shots taken with a particular person in them). In Figure 9-12, all the pictures have Ed’s mug in them. Meanwhile, as you’ll soon see, the Places feature is all about where pictures were taken.

Figure 9-12: Facing Ed in Faces.

The Faces feature requires that you sync to the iPhone with iPhoto or Aperture on a Mac and that you turn on Faces in the syncing options.

We think you’ll be jazzed by the Places feature. All the images taken with the iPhone can be geotagged with the location where they were shot. The first few times you use the iPhone’s Camera app, it asks for your permission to use your current location. Similarly, third-party apps ask whether it’s okay to use your location, perhaps so a friend hanging ...