iPhone restore—photos in reverse order and People not carried over

[jent]

I just upgraded from an iPhone 12 to an iPhone 13, with both devices on iOS 15.1. When setting up the iPhone 13, I restored it from a recent backup of my previous phone via USB cable on my Mac.

I noticed that in the Photos app, the photos restored are in reverse order. Meaning the photos are the end are my original/earlier photos. Yet this doesn't apply to new photos I take on the new iPhone, which continue in regular chronological order.

I also saw that out of one or two dozen people whose faces I had tagged on my previous phone, they haven't been transferred over to the new one. Is all of the face confirmation I've been doing for nothing, or is there a way to get the faces / people tagging to be restored?

Thank you!

 

[BreakingKayfabe]

How long have you let your phone index after the restore? Plug it in overnight and let it do its thing. The face/people recognition sorting takes a bit of time.

 

[jent]

How long have you let your phone index after the restore? Plug it in overnight and let it do its thing. The face/people recognition sorting takes a bit of time.

Admittedly not long (because the battery life is great!). I guess knowing that, my question would be if it "forgets" everything I taught it (indicating when a face suggestion is gives is wrong, and proactively tagging people it can't identify) or if the indexing after a backup restore is simply a matter of applying the data.

 

[SumYoungGai]

The face recognition does not carry over from phone to phone in my experience. With regards to the photo issue I would consider uploading to iCloud and restoring from an iCloud backup on the new device, or direct wireless transfer. The latter option takes much faster than the estimate. For about 50 GB, it took 15 minutes.