laguna1212
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Q: All Photos Album Incorrect Sort Order

When I view the album "All Photos" from iCloud.com my photos are sorted by date with the newest ones at the bottom. When I view "All Photos" within iOS or the OS X app, the sorting order isn't correct. Any ideas?

 

Thanks!

Posted on Apr 14, 2015 12:42 PM

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Q: All Photos Album Incorrect Sort Order

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  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Apr 14, 2015 1:23 PM in response to laguna1212
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    Apr 14, 2015 1:23 PM in response to laguna1212

    That's because the All Photos mode is sorted buy Date Added:
    Photos001.jpg

    Tell Apple what features you want added or changed in Photos via http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html.

     

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  • by laguna1212,

    laguna1212 laguna1212 Apr 16, 2015 11:13 AM in response to laguna1212
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    Apr 16, 2015 11:13 AM in response to laguna1212

    Thanks for the reply! I noticed it was sorted by date. Most of the photos are in chronological order but what's strange is a good batch (probably 100+) of photos that are from 2012/2013 which are mixed between 2014/2015.

    • This only appears in this way in the "All Albums" folder
    • Within the Moments view, everything is sorted exactly correct by chronological date
    • To make things even crazier, when I view "All Albums" on iCloud.com I don't see the same issue I have on iOS.

     

    Weird...

  • by ---———---,

    ---———--- ---———--- Apr 18, 2015 3:10 AM in response to Old Toad
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    Apr 18, 2015 3:10 AM in response to Old Toad

    I think this is an embarrassing thought-fail on Apple's part.

     

    After removing good ways of sharing photos from one library to another, people end up having to get older pictures, or pictures loaded into a laptop while traveling, back onto our main Photos libraries though copying (edited) files over the network and re-add them. This create systematic discrepancies in date added and date taken.

     

    When "All Photos" Panoramas", "Videos" and otherwise handy views can only be viewed by date added they add to the feeling of having to keep your photos in an exposed disorder.

     

    If you think of a photo, do you think about when/where you took it or when/to what library you added the photo?

    People think of the first, and machines (and now apparently Apple) intuitively think of the second..

     

    But maybe I'm too harsh, and I have missed something. Can anybody see a good reason for focusing on date added rather than date taken?

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Apr 18, 2015 8:25 AM in response to ---———---
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    Apr 18, 2015 8:25 AM in response to ---———---

    Tell that to Apple at the link I posted above. The more reports the more likely they are to consider changing it.

  • by Gloria Harman1,

    Gloria Harman1 Gloria Harman1 Apr 18, 2015 10:27 AM in response to laguna1212
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    Apr 18, 2015 10:27 AM in response to laguna1212

    This feature is only one of the things I HATE about the "new & improved???" Photos.  I did, however,

    finally figure a workaround for this one:

    1.  Click on Photos

    2.  Select all pics (Command + A)

    3.  From the "File" menu, select "New Album"

     

    This New Album should have all your pictures in the order in which you had them.  At least it did mine.

     

    Now, if I could only find workarounds for all the other things I hate about Photos . . . .

  • by keriah,

    keriah keriah Sep 16, 2016 7:22 AM in response to Old Toad
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    Sep 16, 2016 7:22 AM in response to Old Toad

    Old Toad wrote:

     

    That's because the All Photos mode is sorted buy Date Added...

    I could understand that (not LIKE it, but understand it) if that's what it was actually doing.  However, the first-added photo is actually in the MIDDLE of the 900-or-so photos presented in this album.

     

    This was a library where the photos were converted from iPhoto so, I suppose, Photos doesn't think there's any "date added" in the metadata and just dumps all the transferred-from-iPhoto photos into a random, useless pile. <sigh>

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN Sep 16, 2016 7:51 AM in response to keriah
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    Sep 16, 2016 7:51 AM in response to keriah

    That is correct the initial migration is pretty much random as Photos has no idea when they were added - going forward it works as documented

     

    LN