Antony Gordon

Q: How to change order of people

Under El Capitan I recently spent quite a bit of time manually reorganizing around 260 faces from a seemingly random order into surname order. Now under Sierra Apple has decided to display them in forename order with no chance of manual reordering which is unhelpful and really irritating. Any suggestions on how I can change the order?

MacBook Pro, iOS 10.0.2

Posted on Oct 2, 2016 3:04 PM

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  • by LarryHN,Helpful

    LarryHN LarryHN Oct 3, 2016 2:25 AM in response to Antony Gordon
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    Oct 3, 2016 2:25 AM in response to Antony Gordon

    In favorites you can drag and drop them into the location wanted - in the remaining ones you can not change the order

     

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    Antony Gordon Antony Gordon Oct 3, 2016 2:26 AM in response to LarryHN
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    Oct 3, 2016 2:26 AM in response to LarryHN

    I guessed that was the case but thanks for the reply. Feedback submitted to Apple for future enhancement ... maybe.

  • by léonie,Solvedanswer

    léonie léonie Oct 3, 2016 7:16 AM in response to Antony Gordon
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    Oct 3, 2016 7:16 AM in response to Antony Gordon

    You can manually rearrange the order in the Favorite part of the People album, but not the persons in the other section.

     

    You have to break the link to the contacts card for the peoples album, if you want to Photos from using only the first name of the person.  I prefixed all person names by a sort tag, for example "Italy: Julius Caesar" and now the persons are arranged and grouped in exactly the order I want them to be arranged.

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    Antony Gordon Antony Gordon Oct 3, 2016 7:19 AM in response to léonie
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    Oct 3, 2016 7:19 AM in response to léonie

    Ah, even better. Thanks -- I'll just invert names library-style which will fix it. Duh, why didn't I think of that? No reply needed!