Sort an array with an ACF meta key

In you $args you need to make sure to order your categories like so:

 $args = array(
'taxonomy' => 'category',
'orderby' => 'date',
'order'   => 'DESC',
'hide_empty' => 0
  ); $c = get_categories($args);

Did you make a custom taxonomy and use that within ACF?

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