iPhoto library won't sync to iPhone 4

Many thanks dmats12 for pointing out the website article by ALAN VAZQUEZ

His clear description of how to get iOS 5 iPhone 4 to sync with iPhoto '11 (9.2.1) by deleting the iPod Photo Cache worked a treat. Shame it took me ages reading through errant nonesense elsewhere (in other forums) before I found it!

(apols pls ignore the unintentional hyperlink)

Restoring phone via iTunes worked for me. (and from backup was fine, rather than set up as new phone)

This worked for me:

http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1306

None of the solutions offered here or elsewhere worked for me. In addition to the "empty Photos app" problem, I was having other problems with official Apple apps, such as "Maps," crashing. Finally, I just restored the iPhone 4S as a new phone, without restoring from a backup. This did the trick. I can only conclude that the backup of my old 3G included artifacts that the 4S couldn't deal with. Restoring as a new iPhone may seem like a big deal, but it's not, really. You need to set up your Wifi and sign in to iCloud, and of course lots of other little settings might need to be tweaked, but it's not like you're literally starting from scratch. When you plug your iPhone into your computer, iTunes will reinstall all your apps, music, photos, etc. Unfortunately, your folders will be lost, and it will reinstall apps you had deleted, so if you have a lot of apps, reorganizing them will be the most tedious part of this whole process. Some data might be lost. For example, any bookmarks you made in the Maps app. For me (at least so far) this is no big deal. I'm just happy to not have to worry about crashes and empty Photos folder.

How did you fix this? I have the same problem?

I have a iPad iphone 3 which synced fine with iTunes. Now we have added a iPhone 4. It now doesn't sync all the photos from iPhoto. (7000 only syncs about 5000). I've deleted the iPod photo cache & reset isync with no luck. Any ideas? The iPhone was set up on another computer. Does that matter?

I wasted numerous hours also trying all the suggested fixes in through this entire thread. My only resolve was a "Full Restore" from my most recent Back Up. Haven't had an issue since then 😉

The advice to delete the "iPod Photo Cache" was excellent (for me). I think though, there are other things important too to have this issue resolved (iPhoto photos not syncing with iPhone):

a) Make sure, you don't have more than one "iPod Photo Cache" folders in different locations. I had three (⚠) and deleted all of them as a first step.

b) Connect your iphone to Mac and UNCHECK "Sync Photos from iPhoto" in iTunes/Devices/Photos, then Apply/Sync, so all photos will be deleted from your iPhone.

c) Check, if you still have photos on your iPhone. If all are gone, power off iPhone and reboot.

d) Check "Sync Photos from iPhoto", but if you have thousands of images, I suggest, you only select a few events below, so that you see first, if this works.

Please let me know, if this method helped. One more thing: The above worked for me, I managed to sync nearly 3000 images, after I had mostly empty folders on my iPhone. Still: 1 single photo could not be synced/found, but I can live with that (for now) 🙂

YEAH! IT'S WORKING! THANK YOU! I unplugged and turned itunes off. Then opened itunes, then plugged in my iphone4 and all the pictures appeared and it's syncing! THANK YOU!

I had this problem and spent over an hour with an upper level tech person. She said the problem was in the way one of my iTunes songs/albums was named [that is with an ampersand, &], and that song was being used for a slide show. It was a really long fix, trial and error, but it finally got done. We had to rename the song, go into tools in iPhoto and choose another song for the slide show, and a LOT of shutting down iPhoto and iTunes, restarting, etc. It took forever. She is reporting it to the higher ups and hopefully the program-writing people so that this can be fixed. I told her there are a LOT of people experiencing this problem and they were in for a lot of tech support time if it is not fixed quickly.

Okay, how's this for simple?

I had the same problem as everyone else. I unchecked "sync photos" and was able to sync everything else to my iPhone 4s. When I went to apply the solution that the orginal poster had suggested I mistakenly double-clicked on the iPhoto Library icon, instead of righ-clicking it. All of a sudden my iPhoto opened up and said that it needed to update my photo library (as it normally does when you upgrade to a newer version of iPhoto). The minute that upgrade was done, iPhoto opened up and offered to sync photos with my iPhone. I went back to iTunes, and re-checked the "sync photos" option, and my phone synced normally (and also gave me the option to select specific photo albums, which had been grayed out before).

I suspect that all along the problem was that the latest iPhoto update had a bug which caused it to not upgrade all of its files properly. I'd be curious to hear if my simpler solution works for others...

I deleted the iPod Photo Caches and restarted the iPhone5. When I click the Sync Photos from: All my choices are greyed out. I have multiple libraries and am going to try unifying them in Aperture.

I followed a few of the suggestions and something worked.

What I did:
Deleted iPod Photo Cache folder
Updated phone (and the proccess comes with a power-cycle)

Unchecked 'Sync Photos from...' box
Clicked 'Apply'
Re-checked 'Sync Photos from...' box

Selected Albums to sync
Clicked 'Apply'

It's working normally now.

Thanks everyone!

Hi,

Removing the photos, events,... deleting the cache folder, rebooting the i* device just add some photos, still a lot missing. Then, renaming the name of an event did the "trick". All photots are back. What the **** ? :-)

However, the faces are still appearing, though they are all unchecked... New thread open... https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4988748