Photo sorting in Gallery app

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Hi all,

I am currently struggling with the Gallery app on my Fairphone. I downloaded some photo’s from iCloud & uploaded them into my Murena workspace account. When viewing all the photo’s online, the timeline of the photo’s is correct. However, when viewing the photo’s through the gallery app on my phone, for the photo’s I uploaded, it uses the date of when I uploaded them to the Murena workspace, not the actual date the photo was taken.

This is pretty basic functionality if you ask me and there is no way for me to change this behaviour inside the Gallery app. I have found some other inconsistencies as well. What would be the best way to go about this?

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yes this is unfortunate. The default app is inflexible - it should just go to the settings what the user prefers and at least treat DCIM differently to respect EXIF date first. Atm it’s on DATE_MODIFIED, not DATE_TAKEN - it used to be even DATE_CREATED - mtime was a compromise to not leave it on ctime.

Here’s where most discussion took place:

Fossify Gallery has the flexibility to use the sort-criteria you chose for a specific folder.