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Photos for iOS: How can i sort all of my albums automatically in alphabetical order

Hey there,


first off, why isn't there a a community for the new Photos app?

Anyway, here is my problem:


How can i sort my albums on the new Photos app on iOS?
I think it's not possible at the moment.

I am using the iCloud Photo library and uploadet all of my 15.000 photos from the last 15 years.

And because of that, i now have many many albums on Photos now.

Overall i love the new app and i love the iCloud Photo library, but i cannot sort my albums on the iOS app automatically in alphabetical order.

I can sort albums manual, but who wants that, when you have so many of them???


I have Photos on my Mac too and there i am able to do sort them in alphabetical order. But it is not adopted to iOS or the iCloud Web-App.

Because of that, i have a complete picture chaos on my iPhone and when i am looking for this one pic in that one album it takes me forever to find it.


So please Apple, fix this and we all can live happily ever after!
Thank you!

iPhone 6 Plus, iOS 8.3, null

Posted on Apr 22, 2015 4:37 AM

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Posted on Jul 6, 2018 1:12 AM

Yes, it seems that Photos tries to sort abums and pictures after their original date/time field in the metadata.

But not all this data is correct and after 15 years and copying pictures from one mac to another, some of this metadata is messed up.

So again, this automatically sorting doesn't work. Albums are a total chaos on my iphone.


You can sort your albums on Photos for Mac automatically in alphabetical order.

I would be really helpful if either this sorting would be automatically synced via iCloud on your iOS devices or that you can choose this sorting directly on the Photos App for iOS.

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Jan 18, 2016 9:24 AM in response to Gaye M

What version of Photos are you using and what view, i.e. Photos, All Photos or Albums? You'll need to be using 1.2 or later in order to be able to change the sort order. However, in the Photos and All Photos windows you can't change the sort order. It's hard coded into those views.


Click on an album and check the View ➙ Sort menu. It will be active then.

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