Pictures out of order in Photos app

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Pictures out of order in Photos app

I've recently come back from a trip where I took many photos using my iPhone X. I plugged it into my MacBook (13 inch, 2018, macOS 10.13.6) and imported all the pictures to the Photos app.

Now, when browsing them in the app, some of them appear to be out of order. Photos have correct date of being taken, and yet not all of them are sorted by it. Here's a view on the situation.

The order of photos:

Date on two chosen photos, showing them being out of chronological order:

I couldn't find the same problem anywhere online, so I hope someone here can help me out with this.

MacBook Pro TouchBar and Touch ID, macOS High Sierra (10.13.6)

Posted on Sep 16, 2018 7:12 AM

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Old Toad

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Sep 16, 2018 9:47 AM in response to kajto

If any of these Photos were taken in different time zones and the import into the library was in a different time zone that can account for the differences. The solution is to change the time zone for those out of order pictures with the Image ➙ Adjust Date and Time menu option:

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markwmsn

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Sep 16, 2018 8:28 PM in response to kajto

I notice that the second example photo seems to be a panorama. Are the other out-of-order photos also panoramas? That might be triggering a bug in the import code.

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kajto Author

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Sep 17, 2018 12:05 AM in response to markwmsn

The type of the photo doesn't seem to make any impact, as the photos following the panorama I've sent also have an earlier date than the photo I've sent as the first one (with the flags)

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kajto Author

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Sep 17, 2018 12:25 AM in response to Old Toad

Thank you, this seems to be solving it, although it appears very weird to me, as the out of order photos have correct date but in incorrect time zone, so not only I need to adjust the time zone, but also change the time to the original time, as changing the time zone on its own adjusts the hour of taking the photo as well.

Nevertheless, thank you, that solves the main problem.

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kajto Author

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Sep 17, 2018 12:29 AM in response to Old Toad

But on the other hand, do you maybe have an idea why some photos were taking the right time zone and some just sticked to my home time zone?

All photos taken on the same iPhone, some of them in the Moment app, but not all of those out of order, so I'm not sure if that's the only factor to be blamed.

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kajto Author

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Sep 17, 2018 12:44 AM in response to kajto

However the process I just describe doesn't seem to be working with all photos equally, she maybe that manual time alteration after changing a time zone is just a thing for some of the photos...

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markwmsn

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Sep 18, 2018 9:35 PM in response to kajto

I'm also concerned about how two images taken in New York City a few hours apart with the same iPhone could have different time zones.

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Pictures out of order in Photos app

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