iCloud Photos not in date order

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iCloud Photos not in date order

I've just uploaded my wife's 16,000 photos and videos, from the Photos app on her MacBook, to iCloud Photos (it took a long time!).

When we go to icloud.com and look at the photos in the 'Moments' they appear to be in date order. But if we switch to 'Photos' they are not displayed in date order.

I suspect they might be displayed when we imported the photos from her iPhone (via a lightning bolt to USB cable), rather than when the photos were taken. I suspect this, because we'd only import photos once or twice a year, and in iCloud Photos, in 'Photos' (not Moments) the photos seem to be grouped together in big monthly groups, i.e. all photos in 2021 appear under December 2021.

How do we get the photos to display in date order of when they were taken, not when they were uploaded from the iPhone to the MacBook? And why do they display fine in Moments?

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 11.6

Posted on Feb 7, 2022 7:05 AM

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léonie

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Feb 7, 2022 7:55 AM in response to Sparky Marky

It is intentional. In Photos at wwww.icloud.com the "Moments" are sorted by the date photo has been taken, while the "Photos" tab is sorted by the date the photos have been added to the library. This makes it easy to find recently added photos in one place, even if they are having different capture dates.

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Feb 7, 2022 8:12 AM in response to léonie

The trouble is, within each big group (that share the same date added to the library) the photos are not displayed in (date taken) order. So if we added a years worth of photos to the library at the end of a year, the photos within that group are mixed up.

The photos in the Photos app on the MacBook display in the correct date order. When my wife turns on iCloud Photos on her iPhone, will the photos from iCloud sync down on to the phone in the correct order?

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léonie

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Feb 7, 2022 8:27 AM in response to Sparky Marky

My iCloud Photos Library is syncing with several devices - iPhone, iPad, several Macs.. When I view the "Photos" at www.icloud.com, they are in the same order as the Recents album on my Mac, mostly great blocks of photos imported at the same time, but with very different capture dates.

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Sparky Marky Author

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Feb 8, 2022 8:14 AM in response to léonie

Thank you. We've just synched the iCloud Photos on to the iPhone and they are displayed in the correct date order. So that's good. it is unlikely that we will look at the photos in a browser on icloud.com

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iCloud Photos not in date order

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