[Feature] Sorting from latest or oldest in search

[DominicPlays280]

I have searched the existing feature requests, both open and closed, to make sure this is not a duplicate request.

• Yes

The feature

I self-host Immich and moved my whole ~23k photo library over, so I use it daily. One thing I keep running into: search results come back in relevance order and there is no way to change it. That makes sense for text search, but when I filter by metadata like date range, city, camera or rating, there is no query and no relevance score, so I just get a filtered pile in no order I can use.

I checked the latest release and searched the repo before posting. I know #11819 was closed as not planned, and there are older discussions about this (#8377, #10400). The "results are sorted by relevance" argument is fair for text search, but it does not apply to metadata-only filters.

The ask: a simple sort toggle on search results, latest first or oldest first, newest as the default like the main timeline. Or at minimum, make metadata-only searches return in date order.

Use case: finding the newest photos from a specific city or camera when I have no idea of the dates, and doing cleanup oldest-first on a filtered set.

The new Recently added page in v3 already shows date-ordered views fit the app well, so this feels like a natural next step. Happy to help test. Thanks for the great work.

Platform

• Server
• Web
• Mobile

[DominicPlays280]

Now implemented