How Do I Organize Photos Into Year and Month Folders?
Sort them by the date inside each photo, not the file date, or the folders will be wrong.
Year and month folders are the structure that still makes sense in ten years, and it works in any file manager, on any operating system, with no app required.
The trap is sorting by the file date. That is when the file arrived, not when the photo was taken, so you end up with a 2026 folder holding twenty years of memories.
Takeout JSON Metadata Fixer builds the folders from the real date, and shows you a live preview of the structure before anything moves. It runs on your own computer and is free for your first 500 photos.