All Photos are suddenly sorted as oldest first—got a fix?
Suddenly my All Photos are sorted by oldest date first, instead of showing the most recent first. How do I change this—withOUT moving them all to albumns?
iPhone SE, iOS 15
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As léonie points out, "All Photos" provides a specific view of all the pictures in your Library in a pattern that can always be counted on--it can't be changed. But you don't have to "move them all to albums" to manipulate them. In fact, you don't exactly move pictures to albums-- any picture in an album is still in the All Photos view-- hence the name. An album is just a list of those pictures that you want to appear together, and pictures can be a many lists-- in many albums. But they're always in All Photos.
To do what you want with the least disturbance, you can make a Smart Album with a specification like {"Filename" "includes" "."} Since every filename has a dot, then you will get an album with all your pictures, and you can change the order. (I also use {"Date Created" "is after" "7/4/1776"} which seems to include them all!)
But in a Smart Album you can't order the pictures randomly-- the order must be alphabetical or chronological. However, in a regular Album you can drag the pictures to any order you want.
