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Photos resized to lower quality are not sorted by original date

So I'm using a shortcut that takes a photo and makes a copy of it in lower quality, e.g., a 3MB photo to a 706KB then I can save it to my photos. It retains the date/time of the original photo in the info, but adds it to my phone as if the photo was taken today. Yes, I understand the photo actually was created today, but what I want is for it to appear in the original chronological order so I can delete the old one. IOW, my phone is bursting with photos, many of which do not need to be of the highest quality.


I didn't write the shortcut I'm using and honestly don't know how it works. So maybe there is another way to do this. I guess I'm looking for something that will modify the original photo to reduce it's size. Maybe it can't be done... Maybe someone can suggest another way to reduce the amount of space my photos are taking.

iPhone 15 Pro

Posted on Sep 26, 2023 10:45 AM

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Posted on Sep 28, 2023 10:24 PM

When you are doing this and checking the result, are you looking in All Photos, in Recents, or somewhere else?

If you are looking in Recents, then you are seeing the correct behavior. If you want to view your photos by capture date, look in All Photos instead of Recents.

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Sep 27, 2023 1:08 PM in response to markwmsn

Good point. Although the simple answer may be that no matter when you create a copy of a photo (in my case making it smaller), the original metadata is maintained, but the new photo is sorted by today's date, not the original one.


Attached photos of the shortcut. I honestly don't understand exactly how it works. I invoke it by bringing up a photo in photos, this shortcut appears in the list under the icon with the square and the up pointing arrow. I run this shortcut, I get a pop-up window that says "What image quality do you want? followed by the three options. I chose one, then I get that same popup and given the option to save, print, etc. I then save it back to photos. It appears as new photo, all the original metadata is there, including the original date/time the photo was taken, but it appears as the most recent photo. What I'm trying to do is maintain the original date/time so it sorts in the proper place. Then I can delete the original, e.g., 3MB is replaced by the much smaller file but it stays with all the other photos from that day.


Photos resized to lower quality are not sorted by original date

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