Sorting by date photos are taken in a shared album

I have subsequently found this explanation:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250260695?sortBy=best

So, despite the Apple mantra of "it just works", they've made shared ALBUMS "it is just confusing".

Looks like it should be called a sequential stream vs. an album.

They're asleep at the wheel.

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The recent upgrades have changed this. The shared albums can now be sorted by the date the photos have been taken. This is possible since iOS 16 and macOS 13 Ventura.

Previously the date and the locations have been stripped from the photos in the Shared albums for privacy reasons, but now the dates are shared, when we are sharing the photos in a Shared album.

We can now the shared album by the date taken - on an iPhone using the menu with the three circled dots, when we are viewing a Shared album. There is now a Sort command. And on a Mac the Sort command is in the View menu, when we are viewing a Shared album. But this will only sort our own view of the album. It will not be sorted for the subscribers.

The titles and the locations are still stripped from the photos, when we share them.

The Shared albums are still weird mongrels, half album, half stream. The subscribers will be seeing the stream, not our sorted version, but they can sort the shared album as well, if they are having a Mac or iPhone or iPad with a recent system version. We should not sort the shared album, if people have commented on our our photos. Then the photos should better stay in the order they have been added, or the comments may be moved out of the context where they have been posted.

Hello, and thank you for this. I appreciate the detailed reply. I was going in circles on the discussion forms and general Internet trying to find a solution for this. I learned that the sorting was based on the old stream theory and not as it actual album. Appreciate the help on this I will let others know on all my shared to help them had to do this now. Have a great day.

I'd like to know this too. From what I gather it is not possible. Well, Apple does not make it possible. I'm sure it is possible. It is also desirable.