Photo sort order changed with ios 6

This is infuriating. I put them in a specific order, and every time there's a major release, it doens't recognize the old way of sorting! This isn't rocket surgery.

If it's by creation date and creation date only now, the only option I have to get them in the order I want is to delete them and re-add them individually which isn't an option.

Apple should be better than this, especially with Media. iPhoto for iPhone/iPad won't even allow me to sort other than by creation date. This is such a poor user experience. It's time to actually spend some decent time on this application. It's suffered from iOS 2 on, and only gotten worse.

While this discussion has been great to help us know this issue is a known bug without a work around, it has not been fixed yet. Apple does not officially follow the Apple Discussion Groups but I have to think that some of the better Apple software engineers do follow some of these discussion to see what issues we in the real world are experiencing.

With that in mind, remember it is very important to take the time to call Apple Support ( SOS Apple which is 800-275-2273) and add another case to this and other important issues. Think, "The squeaky wheel gets the oil first." So call Apple and add another voice to this issue. You qualify for free support since you are using iOS 6 if you have this bug.

This issue is so aggravating to me that I have stopped showing people photos on my iPhone and iPad, it takes too much time to scroll through hundreds or thousands of photos to get to the bottom and find my photos from last week. And no, I am not going to take the time to manually fix this sort or break it up into a new folder system. A big part of the iPhone, other than phone calls and the iPad is photos, so without a working sort system these iOS devices lose their purpose.

This sorting problem is all very frustrating; here's the details on mine:

I use iPhoto Events (not Albums, not individual pictures) to organize all my photos and videos. There have been several wasy to sort Events with iPhoto, the most recent of wich (iPhoto 9.4.1) is to select "Events" in the iPhoto Library pane, then select "View" in the iPhoto menu, and choose your sorting method.

The order you select is NOT preserved when you connect a device via iTunes (iPod, iPad, iPhone) and select the "Photos" pane of that device.

The 3rd party iPhoto Library Manager will reconstruct your iPhoto library, recover a number of lost or orphaned photos and videos, and sometimes (I don't know when) will some how help iPhoto convey the event order to iTunes (I have accomplished this once, and can't tell why anymore?).

But the problem seems to be the .xml file that iPhoto writes a file called "AlbumData.xml" (use right click or control click on iPhoto.library to "show contents" to see the file), which either contains incorrect sorting data, or if correctly written by iPhoto, is not read correctly by iTunes.

It may be this .xml file that is referred to as the "iphoto cache" the previous post of lauriew?

In any case, there IS a serious sorting problem and it is about the connection between iPhoto and iTunes. Why Apple doesn't pay attention is a mystery to me. I have posted my concern, and done all of the Microsoft support like "restore your device, etc." tactics, and nothing works. I have posted my description of the bug on the Apple feedback site multiple times, and have spend hours in the Apple store with their "geniuses" who file reports, to no avail.

It is an interesting sociological question: when will Apple the corporation actually start paying attention to the current users as opposed to scrambling for new ones? If it does not, it will start to suffer the collapse that is now happening to Microsoft.

Randy

Was hoping this would be resolved with 6.0.1

NOPE.

You're not alone. I downloaded 6.01 to both my iPhone 5 and iPad 2 and "No Joy" so I sent the AppleCare rep that worked with me on my case regarding the failure to fix this to advise him.

Just noticed there is an iPhoto 9.4.2 updated available. I will download it and test it later this evening to see if this resolves our sorting issues. If you test the updater please post your results.

Great news, at least for my situation. After installing iPhoto 9.4.2 and syncing my iPad all but one of my albums are now sorting correctly. I will sync my iPhone later this evening and see if that is fixed. I have to look into why the one folder is not sorting correctly now.

do I need to be using the most recent Apple software?

Looks like I jumped the gun. On closer examination of my photo albums on my iPad they are now more messed up than before. After iOS 6 and iPhoto 9.4.1 my photos had been sorted by date ascending even though my albums in iPhoto were sorted by date descending. Now after iOS 6.01 and iPhoto 9.4.2 my photos are sorted by date added it seems, I can't be sure since in iPhoto the info only shows the date of the photo which I had changed in iPhoto so they would sort the way I wanted them to.

So update at your own risk.

Back to the drawing board... Again.

Mine worked. Have you gone into the VIEW at the top of Iphoto for each of your albums as you can sort any way you want. Old to new, new to old etc. You have to do each of your Albums in this VIEW to sort them the way you want them. But IT WORKS! Good luck.

Yes, I have used the VIEW options to correctly sort my photos in iPhoto but the sort order still does not carry over to the photo album on my iPad. Funny thing is if in Photos on my iPad if I select the Photo tab at the top instead of Albums, in Photos my photos are sorted correctly.

I had to sync my iphone and ipad to Iphoto and I did it twice to get it to work. Try again and let me know what happens. Good luck!

It's not just an iPhoto issue though. I use iTunes because I run a pc.

My photos are now sorting correctly. Actually I don't think iOS 6.0.1 fixed this issue, it is fixed by today's iPhoto update.

I agree it doesn’t look like iOS 6.01 resolved this issue with sorting but I have to wonder why iPhoto 9.4.2 fixed it for some and not others. Multiple syncs did not resolve my sorting issue. LaurieW, which sort method are you using and is it ascending or descending?

Either way, this has to be fixed by Apple since it is wide spread. If it is a preference file then they need to write a repair for it and include it in the next update. All I know is everything worked fine before iOS 6.0 and iPhoto 9.4 for me and my wife with about the same photos still works fine since iOS 6 but I did not upgrade her iPhoto to 9.4 so it has to be iPhoto.

As I said earlier, funny thing is sort orders no matter how I change it works fine in iOS 6 if I use the Photos tab in Photos on my iPad and iPhone but the albums do not.