[Feature]: Sorting for albums #1689
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First album sorting options will be included in one of the next mobile releases. |
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I think this is done, correct? |
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Can you better explain what you mean by done? Running server Given all of the amazing features already provided in this photo solution, I have a tough time believing that sorting photos "oldest to newest" in albums does not exist, but I simply cannot find the setting to do so... or better yet, include a setting for the "default sort method", for media in all albums. |
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Manual photos order would be nice to have as well. |
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I second that. Do we need to create a separate feature request for that? |
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At this time, this is the only thing keeping me from moving into Immich full time. Being able to build a 'story' from images captured out of order is a must-have feature for Albums. |
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My use case for IMMICH is a secure and private image share for friends and family--emphasis on sharing. Manual--ideally drag-and-drop--ordering is vital to this as both I and my F&F will want to manipulate the "story line" of Album events. I've purchased, as the build so far is clean and impressive, and UI will be easily grasped by F&F. All that is lacking is Album sort options for me, particularly drag-and-drop a la Google/Picasa. Taking it on faith that this obvious but no doubt challenging-to-implement feature is a priority. Thanks!! |
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A bug on mobile. While adding photos to the album the order of albums is from oldest to the recent one (at the end). Shared photos dropdown above shows them correctly. |
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When ordering albums by "Most recent photo", web app 1.75.1 seems to sort by I think the common expectation is to sort by file creation date. Would it be possible to change the feature this way? |
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@klejejs I believe you developed the feature, could you chip in? |
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Yes, that is the case. For the web, I copied the options from GPhotos - "last modified" and "album title" come from album data, but "most recent photo" checks assets in the album from DB and sorts albums by asset date. |
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There is actually a PR for mobile already, but there is no progress on it :( |
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Sorry for disappearing, I had put my experiments with immich on hold. I still think that the "most recent photo" should refer to the date it was taken and not modified/postprocessed. |
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@bo0tzz just closed #4735 as a duplicate of this feature request, so I want to clarify: is adding sorting options inside individual albums still planned? Otherwise, I will create a separate request so this doesn't get lost. |
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Yes, sorting inside albums is also covered by this request. |
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@bo0tzz For the time being, any chance there's an easy way to invert the current sorting method so that albums can be viewed by "oldest to newest" date? looking back through the project's history and I believe this used to be the default, but was changed to be more consistent elsewhere. I've tried to follow through where this is being set, but with refactoring over time it seems that the corresponding files have been heavily modified. A sorting solution (and the option to choose a default sorting method) would be great at some point, but right now I simply need photos in albums to be sorted ascending/sequentially by date. So far (I'm fairly new) Immich seems absolutely wonderful... thanks to all the devs who've put in work, it's really a great photo/video solution! |
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Seeing as this is open since 2022, would it be possible to add a small workaround until this feature is implemented: just invert the current sort order, doesn't have to be configurable or anything. Albums will be viewed from oldest to newest photo 99.9% of the time so it would essentially solve most people's issue without having to code a configuration mechanism or anything. |
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I need this badly to. Just a reverse sort order. I'll hard code it for now if possible. I just need photos to display in forward chronological order. Reverse is worthless to me and confuses people. Does anyone have a patch? |
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I'm in the same situation. This software looks incredible and I can't wait to use it, but photos within albums having no way to be displayed in sequential order really is a deal breaker for all of my use cases. i'm hoping someone with a bit more context can recommend a solution, even as a temporary fix, until this feature can be fully implemented as intended. |
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Please don't force sorting to oldest first. This breaks it for everyone who uses it as a photo backup solution, which may or may not be the majority. I'm as annoyed about not being able to set the sorting by default, but I'd be equally as annoyed for my main use case to break. |
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I am one more user who hopes that the album sort order gets reverted: oldest to newest seems to be right for 99,9%! |
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Please don't force sorting to oldest first. This breaks it for everyone who uses it as a photo backup solution, which may or may not be the majority. I'm as annoyed about not being able to set the sorting by default, but I'd be equally as annoyed for my main use case to break. |
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Agreed, as a photo album tells a story, I think the default sorting option should be from oldest to newest. With the holy grail being this, ordering photos however we want While it's mostly the case, a story is not always told from oldest to newest. Sometimes a photo you took a few minutes later is better appearing first. Maybe because the one you originally took had other people on it, or the light wasn't the best, and 10 minutes later, the conditions were better and thus you went back and took a new pic. For which a simple "older to newer" sort option wouldn't be sufficient to cover this case, and thus ruin the story you wanted to tell. |
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Added to Immich.
Added with #7819.
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Thank you!!!! |
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The thanks are not to me, but to the development team ✌️ |
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The new sorting album function seems only to work in the web view. Album order in app persists newest to oldest, no matter what I do in the web view. |
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Yes, as stated in the new release 1.99 it currently supports the WEB version only. |
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I understand. I thought I can set the order in the web view and it stays that way in the app. |
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I've just tried this for the first time, and the changes to ordering don't persist to shared links to the album. If I set the order from oldest to newest, when I open the shared link to the album the web UI shows it in newest to oldest still. |
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Please include a timeline view for albums on mobile. This will be especially beneficial if the upcoming automation features allow for "smart" albums. |
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Would this include ordering the pictures within an album using the original file names? I am scanning a bunch of old photos and can easily order them with their file name while I am scanning. When I import those photos in Immich, the order currently seems random. |
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I would also like to see sorting by file names. I have an album where photos are intended to be sorted by file name, but they are out of order because I can only change the display order by date created.
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As @bkiscool says, I have a lot of albums in an external library which are basically trip reports. Sometimes I keep the jpg that comes out of the camera which then has a correct date taken, sometimes I have to process the raw file to get a better result. This however changes the "date taken", breaking the sorting. Sometimes also the EXIF data is missing completely (Yi 4k Camera). What I do is rename the files with a numeric prefix to "fix" the display order instead of manually copying the date taken. So the easiest sorting way for me would be "by filename". Though manual sorting by drag&drop would also be nice. |
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100% agree here, I primarily use Immich to view/store comics, and this is the last pain point for me. Importing these into albums is done automatically with something like this which unfortunately means that albums are created in bulk, causing the images within to be added in a random order. an option for filename in a human readable format would be a game changer. When I say human readable I mean the order should be:
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which seems to sort by the first character, and the length of the name? I've seen this with other image sorting/management software and it's effectively useless for my application. |
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a custom sorting method for albums would be really really nice... it could be as basic as an (editable) atribute "rank" for each pic. (sort by rank, then date)... |
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In addition for the sort order on the album, that is already implemented, have the option in the parameter to define what is the default sort order on album creation. |
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I just came here as I have wedding photos in an album and it starts the wrong way round. Most definitely I don't want the dance first scrolling down to the reception, exiting the church then kneeling at the altar lol. The trouble is this is for sharing and despite my being able to change my 'viewing' order it resets at next log in and it defaults the wrong way round for everyone. This feature needs to be persistent and be set in the album for all viewers. It would be also preferable to have a system global config that can set the default which can then be modified by users later. My default will be oldest first as I think that's what 99% will want but it will probably depend on if you're using as an iPhone photo backup or as an album sharing system mainly as I see those as two different use cases. Otherwise, nice product. Best open source image sharing I've found to date. Nice job everyone! |
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Strong +1 here. Being able to sort photos chronologically would make a world of difference. Reverse chronological order doesn't make sense to me. I don't even think this needs to be configurable—just sort photos chronologically by default. Does it ever make sense to have them in reverse chronological order? |
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I am not sure if it's possible to make this the default for albums created while keeping the main view in reverse chronological view. If that's not possible, then I don't want the sorting to be changed, because that breaks my main use case, photo backup. |
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I think it makes sense if you're using a phone backup - i.e you want to see your latest photos at the top. Almost a social feature. But that's about it. |
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On Tue, 10 Jun 2025, at 02:50, marshalleq wrote:
I think it makes sense if you're using a phone backup - i.e you want to see your latest photos at the top. Almost a social feature. But that's about it.
Why would you want to see them at the top? The photo gallery on the phone shows most recent photos at the bottom (given that it sorts photos in chronological order).
I’m not sure what “social feature” means here. Are you just trying to imitate what Facebook did?
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That is not what my gallery (Google Photos) is doing, and I likw how it is now |
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On Tue, 10 Jun 2025, at 09:35, Ivan Pilipenko wrote:
Please don't force sorting to oldest first. This breaks it for everyone who uses it as a photo backup solution, which may or may not be the majority. I'm as annoyed about not being able to set the sorting by default, but I'd be equally as annoyed for my main use case to break.
Why would changing the order to be chronological order break backups?
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It would break the default view as it is now, not the backup itself. |
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Able to do custom sorting method for albums would be really really nice like pin some important albums and then have date wise or other sorting pattern albums after pin albums |
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It would be nice to have a sort option for the albums view. Google Photos currently provides three such options:
It would also be nice to have similar sorting options inside of albums (and possibly on the main photos feed) - things like:
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