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How to organize a shared icloud album

How can I organise a shared album?

I have sorted my album in Photos manually, when I drag the files to my shared album I loose that sequence. The photos are placed in an order that is a mix between date created and date imported in Photos.

The only way I get them sorted in the way I want, is by dragging them one by one into my shared album.

This can't be the easiest way.

Any suggestions.

iMac Pro

Posted on Oct 25, 2020 11:38 AM

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Posted on Oct 26, 2020 4:57 AM

It is currently the only way to ensure that the photos will appear in a shared album in the order we want.

Shared albums are streams of photos and always sorted by the date the photos have been added. When you share several photos at once, you have not control over the order they will be added to the stream of photos.


On iOS 14 on an iPhone or iPad you can sort the photos in a shared album automatically, and it will also be possible in Photos 6 on the new macOS 11 Big Sur (to be released this fall). But sorting a shared album will only happen locally on your device for your own benefit. It will not change the sort order of the album in iCloud.


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Oct 26, 2020 4:57 AM in response to LeoD55

It is currently the only way to ensure that the photos will appear in a shared album in the order we want.

Shared albums are streams of photos and always sorted by the date the photos have been added. When you share several photos at once, you have not control over the order they will be added to the stream of photos.


On iOS 14 on an iPhone or iPad you can sort the photos in a shared album automatically, and it will also be possible in Photos 6 on the new macOS 11 Big Sur (to be released this fall). But sorting a shared album will only happen locally on your device for your own benefit. It will not change the sort order of the album in iCloud.


How to organize a shared icloud album

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