Hello,
so it seems all of my photos are not in order, I have some photos from 2014 half way in my
photo album. Can anyone please tell me if there is a quick fix to this? I’m so worried about losing any photos I don’t want to remove them all and then re-add from a iCloud.
iPhone 11 Pro Max
Are all problematic photos, that are sorted incorrectly, duplicates? I would check them with third-party exif viewers like Metapho or ViewEXIF, so you can see the file attributes. Check the format, if the photos are JPEGs or in another format, check the pixel size, if these photos are in the original size or just thumbnails. If a Photos Library gets corrupted and is automatically repaired, Photos may recover orphaned items, that are no longer bound to photos in the library. These orphaned items may be thumbnails or previews without any metadata and they could be shown at any date.
Are all problematic photos, that are sorted incorrectly, duplicates? I would check them with third-party exif viewers like Metapho or ViewEXIF, so you can see the file attributes. Check the format, if the photos are JPEGs or in another format, check the pixel size, if these photos are in the original size or just thumbnails. If a Photos Library gets corrupted and is automatically repaired, Photos may recover orphaned items, that are no longer bound to photos in the library. These orphaned items may be thumbnails or previews without any metadata and they could be shown at any date.
Wich system version is installed on your iPhone? Where are you looking at your photos? There are many different predefined views in the Photos.app, depending on the album you are looking at and on the system version. In iOS 14 the "All Photos" album is sorted by the capture date (the date the photo has been taken), while the Recents album is sorted by the date the photos have been added, which can be different from the date a photo has been taken and can change after a system update or when your Photos library gets updated to a newer version. Are the photos out of order in Recents or in All Photos or in a different album?
So mostly all photos were moved from an old phone but since I updated to a big update a year or two ago they most duplicated or went into wrong order. I have one photo that says 1st January 1980....I wasn’t even born then 😂 I’m on the most recent update and viewing them in all ‘all photos’ and recents and they’re the exact same - all mixed up.
If you moved them from a previous phone, was the previous phone an iPhone? If yes it is very strange, maybe it's a glitch in the Photos app. If the pictures come from a different manufacturer, maybe the new phone isn't reading the photos' metadata correctly.
Try getting the information for the photo that says "1980", for example. Load it in a program that checks exif data (you can find websites that check this for you, or you can download apps or programs to do it for you) and look for the date taken, or original date, or anything similar.
Yep, that's weird...
Question: I noticed you say "moved". How did you move these pictures? I'm assuming you didn't use the iCloud library? Maybe you downloaded onto a computer and then uploaded them back to the new phone?
Are these photos from a previous iPhone or did you add them manually? If it's the latter case, perhaps the exif date is incorrect?
So this is where it gets even weirder...I’ve only had iPhones so all photos were moved from previous iPhone 😂 and the one where it says 1980 was actually taken in December 2018!
So no I did it by iCloud! It doesn’t make sense at all!
Photos not in chronological order
