Import photos from PC without them going into “recent”

[BababooHi]

I’m brand new to Macs. I just got an iMac and am importing pictures over from my PC into iPhoto. I’m dragging and dropping them into the iPhoto icon on the desktop. The problem is now all these photos are showing up on my iPhone/iPad photo app under “recents” (my preferred way of viewing recent camera photos on my iphone/iPad).
My questions are...
1. Am I bringing my old photos over to my new iMac the wrong way?
2. Is there a way to remove photos from “recents” in the iCloud while still retaining the photos?

Any help would greatly be appreciated. Thanks!

 

[cynics]

Recents Album is arranged in order the data is added to the Photos app. If this wasn't the case then if you saved a photo from iMessage, imported an image from a camera, moved a video from Files, etc (anyway you can think of to get the data into the Photos app) there is the potential it would be near impossible to find due to it arranging itself in data created in the All Photos section.

Say for example a friend sent you an image of you and him/her from 5 years ago via iMessage. You like it and want to save it, so you save to Photos. Without recents being "recent" that photo would bury itself into your photo album 5 years ago. If you didn't know exactly when it was taken it would bury itself to whenever that was making it VERY difficult to find again.

This isn't an issue for me because I imported my photos years ago and now all my recents are typically (but not always) recently added and created. But I do understand your situation. You can look under "All Photos" for your recently created images until those imports trail off some if there is a lot.

I played around with it for a while but I've been unable to find an easy solution for you.

 

[BababooHi]

That’s very helpful! Thank You!!