Default ordering

If you don’t pass an explicit order value, the returned collection items will be ordered descending by publication timestamp (sys.updatedAt) and ascending by ID (sys.id). This means that recently published items will appear closer to the top, and for those with the same publication timestamp the order will be based on the item IDs.

Note that the above default ordering only applies to top-level collections. Nested collections are ordered in the same order they were linked to the parent entry.