Order of Photos when Merging Photo library to iCloud

zdnxa wrote: … even though in Photos the order of photos in Recents was correct, they became all jumbled up when merged. Has this now been fixed?

Recents is (was*) a view that showed pictures in the order they were added to the Library. If you select a bunch of pictures to import all a once, especially using a computer with multiple cores, then pictures are processed through different paths for different times and get added in apparently random order.

You don't say what OS you're using., but probably the best way to merge Libraries is to use the trusted 3rd party app PowerPhotos ($30) This has been around (in one form or another) since iPhoto days, and lots of us use it. It will import libraries and maintain the album structure. And it does a lot more.

*Sequoia no longer has "Recents," but Library can be sorted by Date Added.

Yer_Man wrote: … In the Utilities folder I have albums called 'Recently Deleted', 'Recently Saved' and 'Recently Viewed'

Recently saved doesn't have iPhone pictures, so that's a bit different:

You can find all the photos you've saved from other apps—like Messages, Safari, and Mail—in the Recently Saved collection. Photos and videos that were sent to you using AirDrop also appear here.

I seem to have screenshots from my phone, but there are no pictures that I took with my iPhone camera. Most of the pictures I take are from my Nikon, so I didn't really notice, at first.

In Recently Shared I see some iPhone pictures, but some I haven't sent. Maybe they were airdropped from my phone to the Mac-- not sure. I'm also not sure what "recent" means-- since I installed Sequoia, I think.

Recently Viewed may also be since Sequoia-- probably it didn't keep track, before.

But the really new thing is that you can sort the Library by "oldest date added." There is no pop-up menu for Library, so you have to do it in View>Sort.

Sequoia no longer has "Recents,"

In the Utilities folder I have albums called 'Recently Deleted', 'Recently Saved' and 'Recently Viewed'