iCloud photo sorting by month

I agree...it's not hard to make folders and event files...but...honestly, it's a lot of work if you have not(I'm glad, with the number you have, that you have! HA) but we shouldn't have to. It worked great before and I can find no reason posted anywhere why they changed it. It's not user friendly at all anymore. I never really liked that once I made a folder and added a picture that it was still in my main album. This has made it even harder.

I'm fairly new to the "Apple Community". Is there someone from Apple out there that can give a REASON why this change was made? Is there a workaround? And if no workaround - can you CHANGE IT BACK? Anyone know another way to get Apple's attention, or is this just a misery loves company board?

For years I have been downloading and filing my photos in iCloud by the year, month, DAY. Now it's a mess. I can't tell which day an image was shot or saved! Move the cursor and the date range changes!! How can I get back to what my preferences used to be????

I have the same problem.

it used to be so easy to download pictures taken at a particular day. one click to mark all from that day.

Now there is just the date in the top that change when you scroll but it is not clear when the date change and you then have to highlight each picture once you have worked out the range from a particular date. it takes so much longer now!

Been unable to find fix and this is the first time I manage to find that others who have raised the same issue.

Sort it out Apple!

You may want to send a feature request to Apple and ask to bring back the tabs for the Moments, Months, Years. The feedback form is here: Apple - iCloud - Feedback

I hope, it is not intentional; even for my moderately sized library with just 57000 photos and videos it is impossible to scroll through all photos in this long list to find photos from 20 years ago or so. It is not usable, unless we add the missing organisation back ourselves with folders, subfolders, albums.

For the time being, recreate the missing structure with albums and folders. I have structured my library with folders for groups of ten years, then subfolders for each years, and in these yearly folders subfolders with albums for each major event. This way I can still find my photos quickly by starting from the album sidebar. If you have also a Mac, it is easy to create these folder and albums with smart al ums based on a data range. For example:

I agree with you 100% I LOVED that I could download by day...now, if you have a lot of one subject(no matter what it is...mine just happens to be all about my Monarch rearing) it is, as you say, a MESS to figure out. I intensely dislike it.

Absolutely feel the same way!! Takes much more time to download photos then save in different dated folders. It was so simple when you could choose an entire day with one click (Select on the right). I'm okay with change if it's for the better, but not when it makes things worse.

Please fix it Apple!!

I did submit a feedback. Then I requested a call on which I was told there was no way to change the date sorting. I tried to tell them I knew it was NOT like the last time I downloaded a lot which was February. It had ALWAYS been sorted daily since I started using the Cloud. I think once I get my photos downloaded I am going to cease using the Cloud and just transfer directly from my iPhone or iPad to my PC to save. Really disappointing and frustrating.

What this action tells me is that Apple is not the company it used to be. You can expect more sloppy design from now on out. If Jobs was still alive, there is NO WAY this pathetic organizational system would replace a system upon which professionals in the field have relied for years! This backward movement is indicative of letting someone's nephew make the decisions just so they can get their wife to shut up. Really ****** me off.

Click on show all items , read the article Organize and find your photos on your Mac - Apple Support

Scroll up , it is sorted .