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

352 replies

Oct 22, 2015 10:51 PM in response to mrbofus

Oh Great - here we go again, this had been fixed once !!!

I confirm the same behaviour again with IOS 9.1 as described by mrbofus

mrbofus Author

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Oct 22, 2015 10:55 PM in response to garymansell

garymansell wrote:

Oh Great - here we go again, this had been fixed once !!!

I confirm the same behaviour again with IOS 9.1 as described by mrbofus

Are you syncing with Aperture or Photos? I'm curious to see if Aperture events are still in order or if those got randomized (which seems to be the case from my phone showing "Events from my Mac" in random order, but albums in the correct order).

Oct 22, 2015 11:00 PM in response to mrbofus

Am using Photos for Mac - completely deleted my iPhoto Library from my Mac and the Application.

I am running Latest el Capitan OSX 10.11.1 and latest IOS 9.1

Previously I was able to create albums to reflect all my old iPhoto Events and then delete the Events from my Mac album from Photos and then sync this to my phone so that the Events from my Mac album on my phone went too - but you can't even do that now. You can't even delete the Events from my mac album from the iphone as it is a special album.

I can only presume that there must be some old remembrance of this album on my Mac as a hangover from the switch from iPhoto to Photos and it keeps coming back

Not impressed - this should have been caught at beta

Rgds

Gary

Oct 22, 2015 11:15 PM in response to garymansell

I have created a new IOS 9.1 thread about this: IOS 9.1 Photos showing old "Events from my Mac" Album again

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Oct 31, 2015 7:52 PM in response to mrbofus

mrbofus wrote:

The saving grace is that the albums are at least in order, so I can still go through my synced pictures in order on my phone. Whew!

So it seems I spoke too soon. I just synced a new album (after the iOS 9.1/OS X 10.11.1 upgrade) and it now puts new albums at the very bottom of the album list. Which means I now have to scroll past hundreds of previous albums to get to the newest one. It seems like it doesn't respect the order of albums in the Photos app in OS X 10.11.1.

#@(*#&$(*#@$(*^!(*#@%(*&@

Come on Apple! Please fix this; it used to work just fine! Why do you keep breaking/fixing/breaking this?!

mrbofus Author

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Oct 31, 2015 11:57 PM in response to mrbofus

mrbofus wrote:

So it seems I spoke too soon. I just synced a new album (after the iOS 9.1/OS X 10.11.1 upgrade) and it now puts new albums at the very bottom of the album list. Which means I now have to scroll past hundreds of previous albums to get to the newest one. It seems like it doesn't respect the order of albums in the Photos app in OS X 10.11.1.

#@(*#&$(*#@$(*^!(*#@%(*&@

Come on Apple! Please fix this; it used to work just fine! Why do you keep breaking/fixing/breaking this?!

OK, so it gets weirder. My iPhone 6s Plus and iPad Air both sync all photos with the same iMac. Both iOS devices are on iOS 9.1. My iPad puts new albums at the very bottom of the list, but my iPhone puts new albums at the top, just as they are ordered in Photos in OS X.

Argh...

Harry468

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Jan 30, 2016 5:32 AM in response to mrbofus

After several phone calls at apple support where they promised me, they will take care and will call me back - they didn't. Today, i've called again and got a final message:

'Yes, it is a bug and it won't be fixed, unless they get lots of complaints'

So every 'try this' or 'try that', was only, to get rid of the caller.

Millions of iPhone users doesn't store many pics on their phone, only some of them do this. And a small part of the small group find out, there is a problem, so why should apple care about this tiny group. Without them, they still sell millions of iPhones, so they will not take care about this bug.

The only positive thing from this phone call was, that this time, I was told the truth.

regards Harry

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