Immich sorts after modifiedDate and not creationDate
Hey all,
first of all, thank you for your effort creating such app.
I am ecountering a rather frustrating issue.
What I do?:
- connect via iOS-App to ip of server to sync my photos
What I expect?:
- i expect the sort order in immich to be the same as my ApplePhotos-app (from old to new)
- for example in screenshot: CreationDate (Aufnahmedatum) was 19.09.2024, so I expect picture in this timeline
What actually happens?:
- sorting order in immich iOS app / web-gui is not the same as in ApplePhotos
- sorting is out of order
- my beginner analysis showed that modifiedDate in ApplePhotos has been used as creationDate in immich (check screenshots)
- for example in screenshot: modifiedDate (Bearbeitungsdatum) is 11.06.2025 and picture will be sorted in immich on this day.
Additional info:
- server build: v.1.139.3
- ios build: newest
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Currently the sorting is:
i have this issue for lots of photos. my photo timeline is really out of place
It says "keine EXIF-Daten verfugbar" which to means any metadata is on iOS itself, not in the image
If it's not in the image then we can't get it
ah i see..
We are trying to make this work, it should be possible somehow (Google does it on iOS) , but no success so far. 🙂
okay, thats frustrating for me as it affects so many pictures, but I understand that there is not much you can do right now on your side.
Ive read of a workaround by downloading all icloud photos on your device and then upload them to immich. not sure if that works
but one thing is strange for me:
the issue only occured to me, when i need to update the server.
I think when it said that new server number is 1.139.2 or 1.139.1 (just recently). I somehow crashed my server, i set up everything again and since then i have this issue. before all that, it seemed to me just fine. but maybe i havent noticed it by that point
The latest versions have a bug that affects some people #21189
Current fix is to downgrade to 1.138
thank you for your quick support. I will look into this 🙂
so far it really seem to solve the issue. not sure what changed from 1.138 to 1.139.x
I will give feedback tomorrow if all pictures are synced
You might want to look at how osxphotos exports to side car because that one gets the dates right
iCloud (from what I found) does weird stuff with the dates but osxphotos fixed that for me. But only if exports to sidecar are active.
It's an internal library used for image generation that's killing the containers.
update 1: after the full sync it seems like downgrading to 1.138 hasnt helped. altough the logs show server build is 1.138.1 i wouldnt rule out that i did something wrong
@smileBeda thank you for your suggestion. i will look into it.
not sure, maybe the app version is messing something up
@green - I actually meant it as a suggestion to immich dev's due to the difficulties mentioned above to extract data from iOS photos/iCloud
oh i see 🙂
many ppl discussing here https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/17708