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Is it possible to make PHPickerViewController display multiple selection ordering number, instead of just an tick icon?

Currently, if we perform multiple selection on PHPickerViewController, a tick icon is being used to indicate selection.

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However, such information doesn't convey information for the selection ordering.

Is it every possible, to display the ordering number? This is an example from 3rd party library - https://github.com/mikaoj/BSImagePicker

As you can see, the 3rd party library is using 1,2,3... to convey selection ordering information

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Can we achieve the same behavior in PHPickerViewController? We prefer to use PHPickerViewController, because it doesn't need to request permission to access photo library.

Thanks.

Solution

  • Such feature is supported in iOS15 beta. Here's the respond from Apple engineer.

    Check out the new selection configuration option in the iOS 15 (beta) SDK: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/photokit/phpickerconfiguration/3752714-selection

    Aside from setting a selection limit in the configuration, you can set the selection behavior to ordered to number the selected assets.