Consolodating iPhone 4 Images By User's Phone

[Darius1968]

I own an iPhone 4g, which is known in my database merely as the iPhone 4.  When I browse the "IMatch Sample Categories|Image Files|Make and Model|Apple|Iphone 4" data driven category, there are currently 2,267 images.  Currently, of these images, maybe about 2,000 were shot from my personal iPhone 4. 
My goal is to filter out the images, which are from my personal iPhone so that what remains in the file window would be the remaining 267 or so images.  Of the first strategies I tried, there was the option of trying to set a global filter that would cut out all of those iPhone 4 images that were in one of my folders, but since such photos from my iPhone are many in number and in many, many different folders on my HD, this proved to be a very tedious undertaking.  I then thought to myself that my personal iPhone 4 does indeed have a unique serial number.  So, I looked at all the metadata of some of the images I took with this phone, hoping to match the serial # with that revealed on my phone when browsing its general settings.  I found nothing.  I was hoping that there would be a data tag for the phone's serial # that I'd be able to use in a data driven category to separate my images from other peoples' images shot with another iPhone 4g.  Given that this appears to not be an option, can anyone reading this suggest something else I might do to realize my objective?  Thanks in advance! 

[Mario]

1. You can apply a filter to all files in your database. Just select the Database node or @All node
2. Switch the Metadata Panel to "Browse" layout to see all the metadata contained in your images. The, look for some metadata value that uniquely identifies your iPhone (as with so many things, Apple is doing their own thing with metadata, and uses different data for any device, if they think it's hip).
3. If you have identified the tag, use it for a filter or a data-driven category.
4. Please throw in a line feed every couple of sentences in your posts 2 make them esyr 2 rd. Thx.

[Ferdinand]

Someone posted an iPhone4 image recently and I had a look and I can't see any sign of a serial number.  There is a field that shows the phone s/w version, so that if people had different versions of that they you might be able to use it as the basis of a data-driven category:
{File.MD.Exif::Main\305\Software\0}
otherwise I think you're out of luck.  Google agrees.

[Darius1968]

Thanks Ferdinand & Mario.  I combed the internet about this and found that some cameras (DSLRs) do stamp the serial # among the EXIF data in the images, but unfortunately, this isn't the case with iPhones.  Ferdinand, that's interesting what you come up with about the phone's software version, but although many iPhone 4 have different versions running at any particular time, many are also on the same version at the same time as well. 

[jch2103]

Based on a quick look through images I have from various cameras and smart phones, manufacturers only track serial numbers on their 'better' cameras, i.e., DSLR or mirrorless, etc. I guess they think only users of 'advanced' (or more expensive) cameras would care about serial numbers; they're mostly right, except that 'advanced' users also use other types of cameras (e.g., iPhones, etc.)...

[Jingo]

May not be helpful for older archived photos - but I get around this during the import process with the rename and embed specific keywords for this upon import in LR...  perhaps not ideal.. but easy to do once you get it setup.  Good luck!