Photos out of order in Events after iOS 8 update

I have an iPhone 5s that I just updated to iOS 8. I sync photos from my Aperture library on my Mac, which show up as a "Events From My Mac" album under "Albums" in the Photos app on my iPhone. In iOS 7 and before, events synced from Aperture would show in reverse chronological order, which made sense. Upon updating to iOS 8, all the events are in a random order. I have events from 2008, followed by 2010, then 2009, then 2012, then 2008, etc...


Has anyone else run into this issue? I know that I'll probably have to resort to telling iTunes to stop syncing photos, delete the "iPod Photo Sync" folder from inside the Aperture package, then re-sync all the photos, but before I go through all that trouble, I was hoping someone might have an easy fix.

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)

Posted on Sep 17, 2014 4:02 PM

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Oct 11, 2014 10:58 PM in response to erniejohn

Yeah, I think someone earlier in the thread had mentioned something similar; other apps that need to reference the photos on the iPhone show the Events in the correct order. It seems to be just the Photos app that has randomized the order of Events. Here's to hoping it gets fixed in iOS 8.1, which will probably be released in the next couple weeks.

Oct 13, 2014 7:36 AM in response to dickscw

I couldn't have stated the problem better than you. It's exactly the same for me except I have about 25% less photos/events.


Why can't these events be loaded on the iPad in alphabetical order? Very very annoying.


I use 3rd party calendar apps (Week Cal) on my Mac/iPad/iPhone to have better presentation of the calendar, BUT, are only a presentation tool. They use the came calendar database and iCloud calendar. Does something like this exist for iPhone on the iPad/iPhone?

Oct 15, 2014 4:15 AM in response to thre3dee

I have a similar problem with my ipad4. I purchased this to be able to show photos in the order I want. I organise in albums, the photos being in file name order within the album. Everything is ok UNTIL you edit a photo, which I do on my PC. It may be saved with the same filename but when synced via itunes the photo is placed at the end of the album. This makes the slideshow feature redundant as I cannot dictate the order.


If I view in photos view then the edited photos are under a different date so making this view impossible to navigate, as the edited photos are no longer shown at the date they were originally taken. This means that the photo view of moments etc is not fit for purpose.


Whichever way I try to view my photos I apparently have no control, contrary to the much heralded advertising for Ios8.


It seems I purchased a very expensive device, that originally worked well, but now is only fit for the rubbish bin.

Oct 16, 2014 11:56 PM in response to mrbofus

Does anyone know how to get photos onto the iPhone without having to use iPhoto or the Photos App? For example, if i just move all of my photos into files under Documents as .jpgs so that they no longer live in iPhoto, is there still a a way to sync them with iTunes so that I can access them on my phone just a .jpg file? Does this make sense? With all of these iPhoto issues, I don't want my pictures to live in iPhoto any longer as I feel like it's giving up control of what happens to them since there is the potential that Apple will get rid of Events all together. Bottom line, I don't really care about photo editing or iPhoto, I just want a means to be able to always view all of my pics in an organized manner on my phone.

Oct 19, 2014 3:17 AM in response to kailuajem

kailuajem wrote:


Does anyone know how to get photos onto the iPhone without having to use iPhoto or the Photos App?...

Maybe anyone doesn't understand your question, or the answer is to easy. In iTunes simply choose Folder instead of iPhoto.


With IOS8.1 the camera roll should find the way back. When I use iExporer to browse through my iPhone, I can see the folder 'camera roll' already in IOS8.02, but the pics in the photostream are unsorted. That is the same behavior you can already see in contacts (but without camera roll). So I think tomorrow, we will get back camera roll, sorted events, sorted faces, but unsorted photostream.

Oct 20, 2014 10:43 AM in response to mrbofus

Well, I'm lucky I only tried with a few Events at first and didn't wait until they all got synced. Long story short: did not work. *****. ****** off right here.

With Camera Roll and everything back I really had hope in this one.


A little addition: I also still have the wallpaper issue where wallpapers will be zoomed in/cropped differently after restarting the iPad.

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