Sorting photos

You only need to make one smart album -

• File > New Smart Album ⌥⌘N
• call it "My All Photos"
• and set the rule to "Date Captured > is after 1.1.1". Any date older than the oldest photo on your library will do.

Now you will have your own Album with all your photos that can be sorted, and it will automatically be updated as you add photos to your library.

There isn't, inexplicably. However you can sort the other way in an album.

Feedback - Photos - Apple

is the place to let them know what you think and post feature requests.

I admit I'm confused. An Album or a Smart Album can be sorted like this:

An album (but not a Smart Album) can also be sorted manually, as well.

Now, the Library view, for instance, which is a preset view of all your pictures, can't be changed-- that's what the Library view is. It's the same with Recents or Imports or Deleted, etc-- those are built-in views provided by Apple. But if you want to sort all your pictures as you like, then you can make a Smart Album that includes all your pictures:

Then you can sort them as you please. (Unless you were taking pictures in the 17th century...)

I do believe the OP is referring to the Library. And it was possible to change that view in earlier versions and other Apple photo apps.

exactly for me too, don't wanna make albums to sort my photos....where are the good times, where a mac could be adjusted to my way of working. Just went back from a couple of years of windows and...it got worse.

Sorting options of various views in a Photos library:

The following is a graphical representation of the sorting capability of the various views in a Photos library under Ventura: