GregBZH35's Script: Create Standard Albums from Smart Albums to Sync with iCloud to iOS Devices

iCloud Photos will sync the standard albums to the iPhone or iPad, but not the smart albums, because smart albums are not supported by Photos iOS: The user GregBZH35 posted a script that will create new standard albums from the smart albums in selected folders.

See this discussion: Smart Albums in Photos to iCloud - Apple Community

This is work in progress - you may want to look for updates here.

The script is creating a new folder named "SmartFolder" and creating a new standard album for each smart album that is enclosed in a folder with a name containing the substring "<!>". Copy the code block below into a Script Editor window and click "Run". As always, try it first on a small test library, and before trying a script on your main library, make a current backup.

	---- snip  copy from here 
tell application "Photos"
	set allFolderNames to name of folders
	tell folder "SmartAlbums" to if not (exists) then make new folder named "SmartAlbums"
	
	set targetFolder to (get folder "SmartAlbums")
	
	repeat with FolderName in allFolderNames
		if FolderName contains "<!>" then
			set allAlbumFromFolder to (get albums of folder FolderName)
			repeat with albumToSync in allAlbumFromFolder
				set srcAlbumName to name of albumToSync
				log "Album : " & srcAlbumName
				
				tell album srcAlbumName in targetFolder to if exists then delete
				set targetAlbum to make new album named srcAlbumName at targetFolder
				add (get media items of albumToSync) to targetAlbum
				
			end repeat
		end if
	end repeat
end tell
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When I tested it, it worked well in Photos 4.0 on macOS 10.13.3. Only very large smart albums with 10000 items or more have been causing timeout errors.

The script, compiled, as an application, has been added to Old Toad's Tutorials: www.oldtoad.net/TT/No.P01.html, for downloading as an application.