Photos out of chronological order in albums

I could care less about time zones. The frustrating problem is that when a slide show is created, slides are put in order desired, and "Photos" then changes that order. Surely a user selected ordering of photos should take precedence over any metadata included with the photo. Come on....

Rants are useless and of no value to you or anyone else and are against the TOU you agreed to - and of course it would be much smarter to learn how the software works - the system albums each have a specific sort for a specific reason and users you understand how to use the program can easily make their own albums and sort them how ever they want

If you actually want to learn something ask a sane question

LN

It's a reflection of the frustration I feel in uploading photos to a folder to find them out of order. It's completely absurd for Apple to not simply put a "sort by" button on the folder, if I have a problem you can gurantee hundreds of thousands of others are having the same problem and it extremely perplexing to me that Apple do not fix this. For example I have just uploaded the photos into a Google folder and they have all gone up in the correct order and whats more I can rearrange them to suit myself. If you only ever use Apple you might not realise how pig-headed they are about a lot of things that those of us who have - mostly - migrated over from Android find annoying. I want the photos in an apple folder because it is easier for themto share through a friends Apple TV when I go over so would prefer to use Apple folders.

Again you should actually learn how to use the software - no wonder you are frustrated -

In Photos you can not have folders of photos and folders only contain albums or other folders and since there are not any photos in folders you of course and not sort photos within a folder

Try taking time to learn how to use the software and you will stop being frustrated

LN

The way I feel is I've wasted and hour and half on this already so I will stick to my perfectly good google photo album and put it down to one of those peculiar Apple things. I'm not especially techie - though I'm not a complete dolt - and I don't want to spend yet more time trying to figure out something that should be completely intuitive. Why Apple would assign photos randomly into a folder is completely beyond me, and I dare say beyond the vast majority of people.

Anyway thanks for your input 🙂

I had a similar complaint but according to the Apple priesthood we're all just doing it wrong. According to the Book of Steve there are sound scriptural reasons for Apple for randomly scrambling photos in their albums as part of some higher mystical purpose.

Same problem and it's completely maddening and ridiculous that Apple would refuse to add a simple "sort by..." button.

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Yes and the whole point of an album is that you often want to share it with people. It's ridiculous.

And again

Again you should actually learn how to use the software - no wonder you are frustrated -

In Photos you can not have folders of photos and folders only contain albums or other folders

LN

And again: I disagree.

obviously - and as long as you refuse to learn your entire liv=fe will be filled with frustration since every device in your life has a learning curve

LN

Ever since this last upgrade my photos are in a weird order and my phone is slow, bad move Apple.

yup, it is the pain in the rear end, that such simple feature like sorting the pictures by (in PHOTOS folder) date taken should be available on the iMac.

This create a huge problems when you travel and use the multipule devices to take the pictures. For instance camera with no bluetooth/GPS & the iPhone. The iPhone pictures will be quickly moved via iCloude to my iMac, but the camera pictures need to be transferred manually later on-pulling the card out, copying to your hard drive, etc. This is when the problem starts. Does anyone have any clue how to resolve this issue?

I recently upgraded to macOS Sierra 10.12.3 and having just opened Photos I find that the sets of pictures I've uploaded over the years, which used to be there in upload date order, are now all mixed up - so that a set from 2015 may be followed by a set from 2008, a set from 2013 by a set from 2010, and so on. How do I reorganise my library so that I get back to a proper sequence, where the oldest uploaded set comes first and the most recent one comes last?

In regular (non-"smart") albums, use View > Keep Sorted By Date to have the pictures displayed in "date-taken" order. Smart albums should already be displayed in that order.

Given your description of being unable to drag pictures into a different order suggests that you have "Keep Sorted" checked or defaulted, so your pictures should already be displayed in the order Photos thinks they were taken.

We are told that the version of Photos in OS X El Capitan (10.11), available in the fall, will have more sorting options. However, I'm wondering if your problem might be with how Photos is detecting the date taken.