I am using a 16Pro running iOS 27.0.1, and am unable to drag and drop to rearrange photos in Message drafts anymore
I remember this being an issue many, many iterations in the past, and was so happy when the feature was added. Long ago, you had to select the photos in the order in which you’d like to send them, or redo the whole draft.
Then came the stack, which is awesome, where photos sent in the same draft, became bundled together for the convenient ability to swipe through them without expanding, and them taking up so much visual real estate in the conversation.
and as of this most recent major update, the ability to select all the photos you’d like to send in no particular order, and reorder them later in the text draft field with drag and drop in where they appear as a horizontal carousel is officially gone.
it feels like a massive step backwards for such a simple and convenient feature to suddenly be ripped away, having us sent back a decade, needing to select each photo meticulously so that the stack was in the desired order.
God forbid we make a mistake, and a photo we wanted at the front was deselected, we now need to delete the entire selection, scroll through our photos again, and take so much more time to reorder them the way we want.
I am sick and tired of all the wrong things being focused on, and these small features of convenience being forgotten and left behind.
I just want back our ability to reorder photos that we’re sending over text without having to start all over again if a mistake is made.
I can’t find anything online about this, and assume nobody cared enough to post about it. Maybe it’s just me.
you can try for yourself by hitting the plus sign in a message chat, selecting photos on the left hand pop up, expanding the photo menu by swiping up the toggle at the top of the keyboard position, and select any number of photos. Then swipe down from the photos menu, and attempt to hold down the selected photos to drag, and rearrange them as they appear in a horizontal bar above the collapsed photo menu in your message draft.