Photos out of order in Events after iOS 8 update

this so ****** me off. hasn't apple had enough bad pr in the past two weeksll 8 years of apple and this kids headed to androis

Per AppleCare - if the photos synch and are in the correct events, but the events are out of order, this is considered normal operating behavior at this point.

It is not considered an issue when they appear out of order.

Apple Care is garbage and so is Apple without Steve Jobs.

They better get a real man in charge over there or they will go under (again).

I'll call AppleCare myself to see what they tell me. Let's hope (for their sakes) they have a better answer than this.

How does a bug this obvious get through to the third official master release?

Seriously! It's not like it's a rewrite like in iOS 7, it's just slightly updated. Did someone delete the code where it actually sorts the events by their iPhoto order?

Or did someone else sneak in a events.randomise(); line or something and hoped no one would also notice how glaringly obvious this bug is??

All I can say is I agree with all of you.

Although my photos are only 3600 big I had a very nice order before and Tim, whilst sniffin' glue obvliously, decided that it doesn't matter how you arrange you photos. At least reading this thread has made me loose more hair than I allready have. Those thin straws of youth are extremely valuable if you, like me, are born Alliende was thrown over 😝

Having upgraded my iPhone 5 to ios8.0.2 I am still having this sort order issue….it is so unusable that I am holding off buying the 6+ because it was going to be used for displaying my 20,000+ pix from my Mac iPhoto library. Not a reasonable purchase any longer when you can't locate an event/photo to view. In my opinion, this is a far more important item for Apple to address than the "Bendgate" kerfluffle. Come on Apple, get it together!

I contacted Engadget in hopes they will write an article about this and it'll gain a bit of limelight. I'll probably contact a few others as well.

Also, MacRumors, Cult Of Mac, AppleInsider and 9to5 Mac.

iOS 8 has introduced a trivial (in programming terms) yet major usability bug in the Photos application causing all synced events under “Events from my Mac” to be shown in a seemingly random order, entirely different from the order shown in iPhoto for OS X. This makes finding events to show friends nigh on impossible.

Every version of iOS to date has shown events in the correct order that reflected the order used in iPhoto as synced through iTunes. Users are now finding it impossible to locate their events to view as not only the order is out of date, the search bar at the top of the “Albums” tab in the Photos app does not use event names as search cues.

With over 12,500 photos neatly organised into events in my Mac’s iPhoto library, I now have to either forgo showing people photos from events, or open an app like Snapseed and use the system’s photo picker control to find the event in its correct order.

This issue seems isolated to only the Photos app. As stated above, the operating system provides a standard control to access photos on users’ phones. This control shows the events in the correct order, where the Photos app does not.

Until Apple fixes this issue, many users including myself have found the Photos app completely useless for viewing photos synced from our computers. As a photographer, I often have to quickly pull up photos or photo shoots on my phone but I simply can’t find my events anymore without scrolling through the entire list to find the event when it is sorted in a random order.

I assume that this is being treated as a bug and not a feature. Perhaps iOS 8.1 will correct the issue, if not it may need to be escalated.

I have the same problem.

Both moments and faces are out of order, and makes it difficult to navigate among some 17 000 pictures in my iPhoto library.

Thinking of all work done in organizing moments and faces, I need to trust in the future of both iPhoto and the ability to synchronize with iPhones and iPads.

We need a fix in the next IOS update.

EUREKA

In the past IOS synced photos from iPhoto based on Events sort order.

With IOS 8 the system appears to sync based on "Photo" which sorts FIRST BY DATE, THEN BY LOCATION. These are the only two tags that the iPhone knows about the photo. The new sort is great for those who have used the "photo shoebox" storage system. For detail freaks like me that have added thousands of untagged photos from many disparate sources and sorted their events by TITLE it creates caos.

The iPhoto app on the computer gives us the tools to edit our events in such fashion as to conform to the new sync procedure. I have edited my event folders adding dates and locations, where needed, so that a DATE/LOCATION sync yields the same sort order as an alphabetical TITLE sort. My 23,451 photos now sync to my IOS devices in my preferred order. Prior to this edit IOS didn't know where to locate untagged photos and they were simply dumped into the current year or even failed to sync and worst of all stopped the sync altogether.

Unfortunately Faces alphabetical sort order remains unchanged (random). Apparently the sort is predicated on the date when the face was first tagged. While it's less desirable than an alphabetical sort, I can live with it.

Actually I commend Apple for addressing a problem for the masses in trying to bring organization. It would have been great if they had explained the ramifications of the change to us detail freaks.

IT WORKS FOR ME! Hope this helps.

Not sure what you're getting at, but if I understand you correctly, you seem to be saying that events from iPhoto on my Mac should sync correctly if they are organized chronologically and by place. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Every one of my 11,000 pics has location information and all my events are synced chronologically on iPhoto on my mac, but the events seem to be random in the photos app on the iPhone. This is not acceptable. Why is it that the app PhotoSync can organize my events chronologically correct on the iPhone, but the photos app cannot? Again, NOT ACCEPTABLE.