How can I efficiently organize photos in album on Mac?

On my Macs with macOS 15.2 Sequoia it will depend on the setting for the zoom slider , if Photos will scroll the photos in the album automatically, when I drag a photo towards then upper border of the window to move it to the start of the album. It is much slower, if the size of the thumbnails is large. I recommend to move the size slider all the way to the left to make the thumbnails small, before trying to rearrange the album. Photos may still be slow to scroll the album automatically, but at least you can drag the photo for a longer distance before it will stop.

This buggy behavior when trying to sort an album has been around since macOS 12 and still not yet fixed.

And I second the recommendation by leroydouglas to split the large albums to keep the albums small. The parts of the split albums can be grouped together with folders and subfolders. Not all photos need to be in an album. I am only creating albums for special projects, and then I am keeping the albums small, so I can see all photos in an album at a glance.

TurVi wrote:

When I have a bit larger Photos album on Mac and I would like to sort it manually

I face the problem that moving photos from the bottom to the upper part of the album is very frustrating and slow. The only way to do the job is to drag the photo all the way from the bottom to the upper part and drop it there. This procedure takes place slowly, mostly little by little so that the movement stops and then I need to move the mouse a bit, and then the movement goes on, until it stops again. This happens several times in moving a single photo. In Photoshop Bridge the respective movement is fluent. Is there any other way to move photos in a Photos album without the described cumbersome task?? MacBook Pro M2, 32MB, 1TB. Thanks!

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You can try breaking up your "bit larger Photos album" to hold less if it makes it more smooth(?) and compare your results...

submit your Apple Feedback direct to the Product Team here: https://www.apple.com/feedback/photos/

Photos User Guide for Mac - Apple Support

https://support.apple.com/guide/photos/create-and-work-with-albums-pht6d60a1f1/10.0/mac/15.0

Just curious, how large is "large"? The largest album I have contains 77 images and I can sort them as fast as I can drag them.

I do have 25,000+ images that I don't keep in Photos. Perhaps the slowness is cause by such a large library in Photos. I can't say.