Sort photos by date taken not date created in OneDrive
When sorting photos by date, the app sorts by date file was created in OneDrive as opposed to the date when the photo was taken.
When looking Photos menu, it list files by upload date or date created in OneDrive, from the user perspective, the date uploaded to OneDrive it's absolutely irrelevant.
This has been around since before 2015, isn't it time to change how Photos menu lists the content or at least give user the option to choose?
This bug defeats completely the Photo menu purpose, the one place to see all your mixed by date pics!
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Matias Rossi
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Cmon Microsoft, don't make go back to Google Photos! Help us out here, it a basic setting!
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Anonymous
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I’ve just migrated to onedrive from iCloud and Dropbox and after seeing this - I plan to migrate back. It’s an absolute sh*t-show. Shameful to be so backwards. It’s jumbled photos all over the place and makes no sense at all.
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Anonymous
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There’s no sense to sort by create one drive date , every body has a existent backup and want upload your older picture .. please fix this !
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David Quek
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It’s 2020! Have this fixed NOW!! Pleasssseeee......
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Hannes Palmquist
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I think it would be fair if you (MS) could comment on this issue now. This entry is almost a year old. Top "Hot" user voice entry for a long time. And an issue that must be very trivial to solve.
It seems you simply don't care...
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Thomas
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Without that feature OneDrive is not usable for me (as I wanted to use it especially for photo storage and mobile access) and will force me to move to other cloud storage solutions.
Too bad! :-(
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Roy van Mousch
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Why does it seem that Windows still doesn't care about this serious and urgent issue?
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Anonymous
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I like this ideal, it’s help to organize my photos taken different dates and sort out by category, please help to organize in order. Thanks
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Anonymous commented
This is a very important & useful feature.
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Dr Tone
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Yes this is a must. Every time you move a photo into an album it's moved to the top of the Newest list. Very annoying, we need a sort by Date Taken option.
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Nancy
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Need a way to sort photos by date it was taken rather than upload date! When I downloaded the app it loaded all my pictures at one time and now they are all mixed up! Hard to organize when they are all over the place! ( I have a lot of pictures)
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Anonymous
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Any images that I have saved from Snapchat or instagram in the past and try to upload via the OneDrive app have had their dates completely rewritten so I no longer know what exact date they actually were taken. What a mess. I was using OneDrive as a way to store all of my photos. Now I don’t think I’ll update my subscription.
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Hannes Palmquist
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Please add support for sort by date taken, batch upload of photos results in a huge mess... :((
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Anonymous
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This has been driving me crazy, for a while... Sorts by date taken on the website, check. Sorts by date taken in Windows Explorer, yup.
App? Nope.
Makes no sense.
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Nik
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How can you offer a storage app without the ability to sort photos by date taken. It is difficult enough searching thousands of photos for the one you are looking for.
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Anonymous
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Same here, please Microsoft take care of that issue!
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Alex
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I’ve just moved from Dropbox and uploaded 10 years of photos. When I go to Photos on iOS it’s showing 10 years photos in a jumbled mess.
Better ways of finding way through your photos in the iOS photos tab are needed!
Surely everyone with more than a few photos is going to find this equally frustrating?! -
Anonymous
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I have already created 3 support tickets regarding this annoying issue because it drives me crazy. Microsoft is aware of the issue but seems to do nothing to fix it. Only useless changes and eastereggs are made in the app. Please OneDrive team, change your priorities and fix the sort issue!
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Anonymous
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I cannot believe that in the 21st century the person who built this app could conceivably think that sort by oldest would use the date a photo was uploaded rather than date the photo was taken as what the user would require.
It’s also obvious that nobody at Microsoft intends to do anything about this issue.
Please prove me wrong!
I won’t hold my breath. -
Matt Jenner
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The ability to use EXIF data to filter by date taken is pretty much a given these-days, even Windows Explorer which has had the functionality for years both displays and allows you to sort by this property (AND by picture rating but that's ANOTHER story...).
It's pretty inexcusable that OneDrive can't do this even though it's clearly trying to be good at displaying picture data. The file created time simply is not a good indicator of the order to show photos, the files are often exported in parallel from Lightroom for speed and the file creation time simply does not provide a useful sorting criteria.
In the case of photo data I would either:
a) Have a discrete "order by date taken" option in the sorting (defaulting to this for a folder with exclusively photos).OR
b) Have the EXIF data "date taken" value override file created date where it exists and sorting by date created would mean (in the case of photos ordering by the date taken).
This really isn't a difficult problem to solve technically as I'm 90% certain you'll be reading the image metadata anyway on upload. The question is whether it's fixable in the iOS app or somewhere more centrally in how onedrive's API presents file data to the app, but please triage this appropriately and prioritise this in the product backlog as it REALLY makes onedrive look bad when sharing a folder of photos with friends (which is effectively promoting onedrive) and the photos are all jumbled.
