Michael J in Aus

Q: unable to sync photos from iMac to iphone

I am trying to sync selected albums from Photos to my iPhone

The option to sync 'selected albums' is not available

New iMac with OS X Yosemite 10.10.4

iPhone 6 with iOS 8.4

iTunes 12.2.0.145

Photos 1.0.1

Thanks!

MacBook / iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Jul 4, 2015 11:19 PM

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  • by léonie,Solvedanswer

    léonie léonie Jul 5, 2015 12:17 AM in response to Michael J in Aus
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    Jul 5, 2015 12:17 AM in response to Michael J in Aus

    The option to sync 'selected albums' is not available

    New iMac with OS X Yosemite 10.10.4

    Do you mean, when you are syncing your iPhone with iTunes?  Where do you store the Photos library?

     

    Check the following:

    • Do you have iCloud Photo Library enabled on your iPhone in the Settings >  iCloud > Photos?  Then you can no longer sync photos using iTunes at all. Disable this setting on the iPhone, if you are not syncing from your Mac using iCloud Photo Library.  Sync photos to your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch in iTunes - Apple Support
    • Is your current Photos Library enabled as the System Photos Library in the Photos Preferences on your Mac? Photos > Preferences > General > Use as System Photo Library?  the option should be dimmed to be active.
    • Is your Photos Library on a locally mounted volume, that iTunes can access?

     

    If iTunes cannot find the Photos library it helps sometimes to quit both Photos and iTunes and to restart the Mac, to force Photos to write its preferences again and to update the Photos Library.

     

    If that still does not help, your Photos library may have a problem.

  • by Michael J in Aus,

    Michael J in Aus Michael J in Aus Jul 5, 2015 5:05 AM in response to léonie
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    Jul 5, 2015 5:05 AM in response to léonie

    Thank you so much

     

    This

     

    • Is your current Photos Library enabled as the System Photos Library in the Photos Preferences on your Mac? Photos > Preferences > General > Use as System Photo Library?  the option should be dimmed to be active.

     

    solved the issue!

     

    Thanks again!

     

    Michael

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jul 5, 2015 5:18 AM in response to Michael J in Aus
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    Jul 5, 2015 5:18 AM in response to Michael J in Aus

    You're welcome   Great, that it was the easy fix!