iOS 13 Photos sync through iTunes causes duplicate photos on iOS devices

don't do that if you have changed the position! because obviously apple didn't put a button to show it again... because apple doesn't know anything....

so to have the localization back you have to click on "restore original position" or something like that... sorry i'm from italy so i don't know how it is written in english...

But when you click on restore it will restore the original position, so if you have changed that position it will restore the original one... and you will lose all your work!

it should be fine with pictures taken with the iPhone.

Hello,

Exactly the same problem.

Even I move to 10.15.2 on MacOs (MacBook Pro 2019) and 13.3 on iOs iPhone X still have somme duplicate pictures.

It's seems that more are sync my phone more I get duplicates...

Syncing a bunch of folders between two devices in a 100% controlled environment shouldn't be rocket science.

Either Apple is getting more and more incompetent each day or this is pure and plain dishonesty, a push to force us to subscribe to their cloud services. In both cases, shame on them.

Whenever I've noticed missing photos on my iPhone after a sync, I usually discover they're ones that contain "Key Photos" of people I've identified in Photos on my Mac. Not sure if that explains your situation, though...

Maybe this is the only way to make them do something!

the problem is that the sync is just not perfect, but it almost works....

I hope they will sell less iPhones this year so they understand, but unfortunately casual users don’t even know how to sync pictures....

I too am disappointed by 1. how long a simple MacBook Pro to iPhone 11 sync is taking - every time I do this the Apple systems want to copy/overwrite THOUSANDS of photos, 2. after the Sync my iPhone ends up with multiple copies of many images - two or more of many photos are in my Photos album.

This does not seem to impact the images on my MacBook Pro. FYI I am using OSX Mojave 10.14.6 - terrified to 'upgrade' to the next OSX out of concerns of finding new problems, and even obsoleting my older Applications. My new iPhone 11 is iOS v 13.3.

Apple seems to be too big to even acknowledge we, who are no longer fully satisfied worshippers of the Apple mystique, even exist. We are often reminded that while this is an apple.com discussion board, that Apple does not even review this content!

I for example, have experienced so many annoyances with Apple over the recent years that I no longer unequivocally suggest Apple products: I bought two new MacBook Pro's whose keys lettering wear off, sometimes in months - Apple says this is 'cosmetic' only and not under warranty (to replace them with what, more new keys that will wear off?), the annoying duplicate photos on iOS devices, that's all before the accursed Taskbar whose 'esc' key causes those of us (like me) who hover over a keyboard to accidentally send E-Mails or lose this or that change) .

This Apple Computer company has become much more like that 'Big Blue' of the 1984 commercial that us early Mac adopters used to poke fun at - with that dictatorial and humorless management style, the dreaded BSOD's, etc. Yes, Steve Jobs is dead.

I never used photo stream but I have duplicates on both iPhone and iPad Pro.

i know Apple isn’t obligated but I think they really SHOULD read this because their beta tester are useless! Paid for nothing!

matter of fact they DON’T WANT to fix some issues because they don’t think it will affect their business! They only care about tv+ now

Hmmm... well, in that case maybe it’s the fact that “iCloud Photos” is *not* enabled in Preferences that is the culprit. I’m not sure we’ve heard from anyone who does have it enabled having the duplication problem...

Double checked, photo stream off and icloud photos off in my case.

(Win 10 pro 64-bit, PC, using iTunes and OS 13.3 on both iPhone 7 and ipad pro 10.5)

Also have found that message forwarding from iPhone to ipad is broken on 13, worked fine on ios 12.

Trying to play detective on this issue I’ve switched my focus, from the photos that are duplicated on my iPad, to the ones that are *not*. In Photos on my Mac I’ve got several albums of recent photos, and many photos among them never wind up being duplicated on my iPad after repeated syncs, even though many others in the same albums do. My hope is if I can figure out whatever those non-duplicating photos might have in common, I can maybe change the duplicating ones on my Mac so they’ll behave in syncs to iOs13 in the future. So far, though, I haven’t found any reason why any particular photo never gets duplicated. I can take two photos within seconds of each other using my iPhone. They both get geo-tagged for the location, I use the same lens and iPhone settings, etc. Yet after repeated syncs to my iPad, only one of those might get duplicated and the other never does. Why not? Still no clue…

Well, yes, 99 cents is what I'm paying, personally. I'd never used iCloud Drive for documents or backups, so I had plenty of free space at Apple to begin with, and the photo library on my Mac has "only" about 5500 photos and maybe 100 short videos. FWIW, my photo storage must have compressed quite a bit when uploading to Apple; iCloud Storage shows only 17.3 GB there taken up by photos, versus 31.5 GB for the photolibrary on my Mac (I still keep the high-resolution versions locally, too). iCloud has tiered pricing (2.99/mo for 200 GB and 9.99/mo for 2 TB), though my iPhone X is only 64GB total so I couldn't have stored that quantity of photos on it in any event.

I’ve been an Apple die-hard for decades. I even own an original Macintosh, and stuck with them through their major hurdles over the years. Unfortunately, I have to say that in terms of continuity of basic functionality, Catalina is a worse update than MacOS 9, which was notorious for its constant crashes that drove me to primarily use Windows 2000 for productive work until OS X was released. 

Today, I have at least one of pretty much everything Apple sells—Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, iPhone XS, iPad Pro, Apple TV, etc., and I’m afraid to say that this might be the end of the road for me. One of the most significant features of the Apple ecosystem, for me, these days, is the photo syncing across devices, and under Catalina, it’s been endlessly frustrating. Syncing my large photo library to the cloud is not an option that I’ll entertain. If they can’t get it working as designed—which was acceptable all the way through Mojave—then that’s enough of a major reason for me to seek other alternatives. 

If it no longer “just works,” then what good is it, really? This is just so disappointing. 

agreed agreed agreed. this issue has dramatically impacted my desire to buy only apple tech products going forward. i have almost 39k photos going back years. and i am not interested in paying apple (icloud photos) to make it work correctly. (not to mention, i don't need or want 39k photos everywhere. if i could select albums to sync in icloud, i'd do it. all or nothing is not a solution.)

the bottom line is i'm using apple software to sync to apple products. i've worked with senior advisors (and written a letter to craig federighi) and after a month of "try this" to no avail, apple closed my case, told me to keep updating, and essentially acted as if they do not care. so why should i?

I think they should give me a free iPhone for all the time Ive spent w/ senior advisors testing testing testing...... Hours and hours only to not hear back and still have the issues of non-working programs. Troubleshooting - test accounts, deleting and reinstalling apps/programs, taking diagnostics logs and uploading to Apple , then never get a result or even feedback. Worst of all, maybe, additional troubleshooting on my own, sharing a work around and don’t even get a reply to the email..... Just about done with it all. Guess it’s up to the end users now to figure out the work around. Thank goodness for forums like this.