Photos out of order in Events after iOS 8 update

Same on both my iPhone and iPad. Although synchronized with the same Aperture library the order on both devices is completely different... Apple, please provide a bug-fix ASAP.

Same problem. Super annoying that it won't sync events by time.

Is Apple staff taking care of these posts/forum?

This appears to be one of those changes that all the reviewers appear to have not noticed!

I use the photos app a lot and having the order "randomised" and the slowness of scrolling through all the photo events was just a massive deal breaker for me (unless someone can point us in the direction of a decent ad-free replacement photo library app).

After 24 hours i ended up restoring both my ipad mini and ipod touch back down to 7.1.2. It meant wiping everything off the devices (it's a restoration to factory settings) but it was worth it. Reloaded my photos overnight and everything is working again.

This is risky as if you load the wrong file (like i did on the ipod touch) or if Apple have stopped authorising 7.1.2, then you could end up with a headache trying to get your device going again. You do not need to Jailbreak to do this

**DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK**

I've had a variation on this problem with every iOS update for the last 3-4 years. Usually I'm able to correct it after some combination of removing photos, re-syncing, repairing iPhoto Library permissions, rebuilding the iPhoto Library (those last two can be done by holding down command+option then opening the iPhoto application on your Mac).

I've tried all my tricks this year and none have worked. I'm concerned that respecting iPhoto organization when photos are synced to iOS is a low priority at Apple as they move all iOS devices (and Macs) to their new iCloud Library photo solution. To that end, I'm really concerned there will never be a fix for this particular issue, because in a few months' time Apple expects all users to adopt the new photo workflow to manage their libraries on iOS and OS X.

Today I found a work-around I thought I'd share. There's an app called PhotoSync for wirelessly managing the transfer of photos to/from iOS devices to/from all kinds of sources like iPhoto, Finder, Dropbox, Flikr, FTP, etc. It's a $2.99 app on the App Store, with a free Mac utility on the Mac App Store. I downloaded it hoping it could completely replace iPhoto/iTunes as my photo syncing solution on iOS while iOS 8 makes it such a headache.

When I opened the iOS app on my 5S, I discovered that PhotoSync shows you all the photos on your phone except they're all properly ordered.

That is, all of my Albums, Events, and Faces that had been synced from iPhoto using iTunes were represented in this app and unlike in iOS 8 Photos they were properly ordered by name (in the case of the Faces and Albums) and by date in reverse chronological order (which is exactly how I have my Events sorted in iPhoto).

I know a $3 app isn't a great "solution" but for me it was well worth the money to have an app I can open that has all of my photos organized exactly how I want them. I buried iOS 8 Photos in a folder and moved PhotoSync to my home screen; I'll be using it to interact with my photo library until there's an update to iOS 8 that fixes this annoying bug.

PhotoSync - http://www.photosync-app.com

Have also noticed this immediately. However, I don't think the order is random. It looks like import date or last modification date is now the driver instead of the EXIF DateTimeOriginal. Of course, I don't memorize the last modification date so the order might as well be random.

Think its more or less randon Sinne the Order is not the Same on different devices... Although Same Library...

Same problem here. Erased photos from phone and re-downloaded. Events (and faces) now in a DIFFERENT random order. Great...

Reported to Apple-feedback, recommend same.

(Find it interesting, that this bug not being mentioned in the tech news. Must not be affecting everyone.)

npsnyder,

You the man! what an awesome temporary solution to a major issue. I have over 30,000 photos meticulously organized in aperture in a way that perfectly synced to my iOS devices up until I installed iOS 8.

I am sure an Apple fix is on the way- but at least now I am not stressing out over it. I actually enjoy navigating around the PhotoSync app at least as much and maybe even more than the native photo app.

Thanks for taking the time to post.

Here we go again. I had this problem back with iOS 6 and it was never fixed with a .x update. However it WAS fixed when I upgraded to iOS 7. Now on iOS 8 it's back and it will probably never be fixed. I submitted feedback to Apple, but I doubt it will be touched. I attempted to remove the iPod Photo Cache folder in the iPhoto Library package to have it rebuild the iPad sized photos and this changed the order of photos on my iPad to something different...but nowhere near where it should be. I really wish I could understand why sorting by date is such a complicated thing for Apple...this is basic functionality!! Forget about all of the bells and whistles if they can't get this right.

I Am having the same problem. Add to that you can't search for albums. To find an album you have to through all your albums.

Same problem

Same problem here.... Apple's quality control is really rotten without Steve Jobs there to crack the whip.

Same for me - real irritant - please fix.

PhotoSync worked well. My photos are back in order on this app. A very small price to pay to organize 27,000 photos. I hope Apple will produce a fix.