Moved photos to SD card and now they're all jumbled?

[Android Central Question]

I have my phone (Samsung s9) setup so all the photos save to my sd card now. You can't do this with apps like snapchat or WhatsApp so I will manually move those over occasionally to free up storage.

I just did so last night and now my pictures are a mess but only on certain apps? Like if I go to attach a photo on Facebook or in a text message, the photos first shown are all the ones I just moved (which are old).

But I checked the photos and they do all have the correct date set to them in their details... and they are sorted fine in my actual phone gallery. It's just when trying to attach photos on apps... is there any way to fix this? I just had about 300 old photos/videos now spammed in front of my new stuff.

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Unfortunately, when you copy or move a photo, the order changes because the system sorts by when the file was created, not when the photo was originally taken.

You could try installing another gallery app and setting that as the default to select photos from -- try Google Photos, if you haven't already.

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[L0n3N1nja]

That's the way Facebook and other apps find photos, they find the most recently modified/moved, doesn't matter the date it was taken or where it was saved. I've personally never liked it and it's why I have for years opened my gallery to find a photo and shared it from there instead of searching for it from within Facebook or any other app.

 

[mustang7757]

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