Sorting Photos In Same Order
Why would Apple not allow me to transfer files from an album to a shared album in the same order? This is one of the craziest things I’ve ever encountered.
The name "shared album" is a bit misleading. Shared albums are very different from the albums. They are more like a stream. previously they have been called "Shared Photo Stream" when Apple introduced them in 2012 on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. They have been a very early chat with pictures. we are supposed to use them this way:
- Invite someone to share pictures with.
- Share a photo into the Shared album.
- Add a comment to explain what the photo is about.
- The invited participants will receive an alert that there is a new photo in the shared album and look at the end of the album to find it.
- Then press the like button (or not), add a comment of their own and reply with a photo of their own, etc.
That is why the photos are presented in a shared album in the order we add them to the album. Otherwise the chat - the sequence of comments and added photos by the other participants would make no more sense, if we could rearrange the photos.
if you want a particular sequence of photos share them one-by-one, in the order you want. And invite the participants only once you have added all photos, so they will not be alerted about new photos, every time you add a photo. and the order may be messed up again, if someone comments on a photo. This could move the photo with its comment to the end of the shared album.
Since macOS Sequoia (or iOS 18) we can sort a shared album by the date the photo has been taken. So you could try select the photos for the shared album in a way that they will be in the order you want, when you sort the shared album ascending by date.
