Mani V K

Q: Photos sync'd to iPhone from iTunes all messed up in iOS 8.1

Hello,

 

I use an iPhone 5S with iOS 8.1. I sync photos from my mac via iTunes to my phone. They are separate folders and all was well in iOS 7. But in iOS 8, 8.0.1, 8.0.2 and 8.1, I have been experiencing many duplicates of the photos that I have sync'd in different folders. Not only does it create duplicates of the same folders twice but also messes up with the photos and they appear random in different folders. For instance I am syncing Folders A,B and C. After the camera roll I get Folder A, Folder B, and Folder C followed by Recently Deleted album and then Again starts with Folder A which contains photos randomly from the other two folders B and C. Likewise Folders B and C also have random photos from the other two albums respectively. I have no problems with the camera roll and the recently deleted folders. I was wondering if any of you guys have the same problem and found a fix to it.

 

I have removed all the photos from the phone and deleted the iPod Photo cache from my mac and sync'd the photos again. After the sync the gallery looks fine but after sometime or maybe i didnt notice much, after a restart. These duplicate folders start to crop up.

 

I clean installed my iOS 8.1 from iTunes.

 

Cheers,

 

M.

iPhone 5s, iOS 8

Posted on Oct 29, 2014 9:48 AM

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  • by Uriah321,

    Uriah321 Uriah321 Nov 7, 2014 8:56 PM in response to Mani V K
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    Nov 7, 2014 8:56 PM in response to Mani V K

    Mani, I have also encountered issues with my Photos albums after upgrading to IOS 8.1. I had originally uploaded my photographs into iTunes using IOS 7.0 and everything was fine. After adding some more photos using version 8.0, I noticed a number of sequence sort errors. Now with the latest relates of IOS 8.1, I'm seeing one album split up into 14 albums all with the same name. Another single album is now split up into 13 albums with the same name. There is also one more album (split up into 3) that contains photographs that were never loaded into the original.

                 I'm going to resync my photographs once again and hope for the best. I hope Apple recognizes these issues and takes steps to correct the sort sequence issue along with the unwanted creation of multiple same-named albums containing random photgraphs.

  • by Klabonov,

    Klabonov Klabonov Nov 8, 2014 1:27 AM in response to Uriah321
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    Nov 8, 2014 1:27 AM in response to Uriah321

    Hi.

    I have an iPhone 6 Plus, and all my photos are randomly messed up. I´ve tried to reinstall a complete backup - with no luck. I´ve even delete all my photos (31.000) and imported them once more - without luck. The photos in iPhoto on my mac is correct.

    By coincidence I teste a foto app called Exif Wizard, and in that app every photo is alphabeticly in order :-)

    Then I guess it has to be something with the Photos app on the iPhone.

  • by phoneoff,

    phoneoff phoneoff Nov 30, 2014 6:11 AM in response to Mani V K
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    Nov 30, 2014 6:11 AM in response to Mani V K

    This is my first post to the community. I have the same problem. I have 8.1.1 on iPhone5  64gb. All was good until last two minor updates.  My phone pictures show multiple folder names in random order. I have 9000 photos.  I have deleted, reset, removed ipodphotocache, and synced with itunes, and repeated this process several times.  Same results.  Must be a size limit in terms of transfer size or number of files giving the iphone a problem.

  • by cyberlipe,

    cyberlipe cyberlipe Jan 4, 2015 10:59 AM in response to Mani V K
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    Jan 4, 2015 10:59 AM in response to Mani V K

    I`m also having this issue.

    I have a iphone 6 on 8.1.1... I sync more than 14000 photos on several folders and its all mixed up.

    I tried to delete all ipod cache folder and re-sync again... but the issue remains.

    on iphone 5 and ios7 all was fine...

    any thoughts?

    Cheers

    Felipe

  • by tgwaste-,

    tgwaste- tgwaste- Jan 30, 2015 4:36 PM in response to Mani V K
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    Jan 30, 2015 4:36 PM in response to Mani V K

    Same problem here on 8.1.3.  All of my photo folders on my phone were duplicated.  i have to delete them all and resync.  This happens all the time now.

  • by Mrkstr,

    Mrkstr Mrkstr Jan 30, 2015 6:02 PM in response to Mani V K
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    Jan 30, 2015 6:02 PM in response to Mani V K

    Ditto for me as well.  My photos in iPhoto on my Mac are arranged by date, but syncing to the iPhone 6 leaves the photos all messed up with really no real method as to how they were organized. This makes finding photos hard because they are not really in any order at all.  Didn't have the problem with earlier versions of the OS or my iPhone 5.

  • by Cazian321,

    Cazian321 Cazian321 Feb 18, 2015 1:16 AM in response to Mrkstr
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    Feb 18, 2015 1:16 AM in response to Mrkstr

    Has anyone discovered an answer to this weird anomaly? With 21,000 photos repeated but in random order and in different folders all over the place it is a mess! Strangely though they are all ok on the first 'set' when you scroll down and then on the repeats they are all over the place. No logical reason?! I also noticed the duplicates don't actually take any additional storage space!? Like someone has said it has only happened since the last minor update. I'm new to the forum, do Apple look at these posts and use the info to improve or fix things in future updates or is it something that one has to email them about? Here's hoping a fix is on the horizon as it was fine before!

    On a slightly related subject to those fellow photo lovers that have tens of thousands of photos on their sync folder, am I correct in thinking that if when I do a regular sync through itunes and I have no extra photos to import since my previous sync can I uncheck the sync photos box and click leave photos on iPhone when the prompt box appears to aid in the speed of the sync? Those of you with many photos will understand what I'm getting at when you seem to wait forever while iTunes is 'importing photos'!

    Thanks for anyones help on this.

  • by DaveM8686,

    DaveM8686 DaveM8686 Mar 25, 2015 9:14 PM in response to Mani V K
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    Mar 25, 2015 9:14 PM in response to Mani V K

    So glad to hear I'm not the only one having this issue.  I couldn't even figure out how to describe it properly.  Part of me wonders if it's Apple's subtle way of pushing people onto their new iCloud Photo Library, or if that's what's actually causing the issues.

     

    I even tried deleting the iPod Photo Cache folder from my computer and re-syncing everything again from the beginning, and it still does it.  This happens on both my iPad and iPhone.  Wondering if it could be because I have two devices.  Anyone getting this with only one device?

  • by joe281180,

    joe281180 joe281180 Mar 27, 2015 7:18 AM in response to Mani V K
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    Mar 27, 2015 7:18 AM in response to Mani V K

    Hi

     

    Just to add to this - I have the same issue on an iphone 5s and an ipad 3, and this is syncing with itunes on a windows PC. Just thought worth mentioning as others have talked about the issue when syncing with itunes on a mac.

  • by DaveM8686,

    DaveM8686 DaveM8686 Mar 30, 2015 8:09 PM in response to joe281180
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    Mar 30, 2015 8:09 PM in response to joe281180

    I should have mentioned I'm on Windows 8.1.

     

    I have a friend to which this is also happening, but she's on a Mac.  She also has an iPad, though.

  • by tyddynonn,

    tyddynonn tyddynonn Apr 1, 2015 11:54 PM in response to Mani V K
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    Apr 1, 2015 11:54 PM in response to Mani V K

    Same problem here, across iPad mini 2, IPad Air and iPhone 5, all synce'd from iTunes on a PC.

  • by 7amama GeneSh,

    7amama GeneSh 7amama GeneSh Apr 26, 2015 7:01 AM in response to Mani V K
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    Apr 26, 2015 7:01 AM in response to Mani V K

    I found a mini solution "better than nothing".

    If u have your photos on your PC u can seperate them to folders by YEAR or by Month or even by YEAR THEN MONTH. After u create the year folder or the year folder with a month subfolder in it, go to your photos and make the view in details (right click>views>details) then choose to sort by date option (choose only "date" dont choose "date created" or "date modified" or any thing else). Make the sort descending by clicking on the date tab. After that  select the photos with the same month or with the same year by clicking on for instance the 31 dec 2014 photo and scrol down to 1 January 2014 photo then (shift+click) then move them to 2014 folder. Notice that the latest is at the top on the new folder if not click on the date tab in the details view. Do the same if u want to sorted by month . Finally Sync the folder which contains all your photos years folders. Hope it helps

  • by DaveM8686,

    DaveM8686 DaveM8686 Jun 8, 2015 3:37 AM in response to 7amama GeneSh
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    Jun 8, 2015 3:37 AM in response to 7amama GeneSh

    So has anybody actually been able to solve this problem?  I thought it was resolved with iOS 8.3, but it's started doing it again recently.

  • by DinosaurFreckle,

    DinosaurFreckle DinosaurFreckle Jun 24, 2015 7:54 AM in response to Mani V K
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    Jun 24, 2015 7:54 AM in response to Mani V K

    Hello,

     

    I have the same issue, iPhone 5 synced from Macbook Pro, it has added 141 ALBUMS to my phone alongside the photos i originally wanted synced! and mine too are all mixed up random folders with random photos which should be in other photos. its literally thousands of extra photos in 141 albums and i just don't know what to do to get rid of them. Does Apple actually read these threads or answer the questions and solve the issues?

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