Plex Photos (Beta) Order

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Hi! I am really excited about Plex Photos.

Seems to be pretty new and from what I understand the order of photos in the libraries are determined based on upload order.

I know a lot of other platforms that do this as well such as amazon, in my opinion this is wrong.

I personally think date is what should be used. I have personally come across where I would upload photos to one library from multiple devices (phones) but it end up severely out of order. This degrades the experience and a lot of the purpose of what a digital photo library should accomplish.

I know Plex can see the date the photo was taken since it is shown in the details of each photo.

Is there a way to completely ignore the upload date order default and change that for my server? If not please consider adding this in future updates.

Thanks!

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This!
And I would also like to add, that for some reason plex photos only looks at the creation date of the image and not at the recording date. After downloading the images from my old cloud and migrating them onto my server the file creation day was set to the day I downloaded the images. But I took the images like 2 years prior, as seen in the recording date.
I really hope they improve the sorting algorithms.

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