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

The fact that Apple is no longer enabling Photo Stream for new accounts doesn't inspire hope it will resolve problems with other legacy Photo capabilities, including iTunes syncing. I think it's easy to read between the lines of Apple's own support pages where they nudge new accounts toward iCloud Photos: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201317

However skeevy a corporate practice, it may be simpler for Apple to simply outwait the complaints of longtime users until one by one they give up and their roar dies down to a whimper. Is anyone still bugging them to bring back built-in optical drives? iOS 14 is on the horizon, to be announced next month and with betas deployed after that... the further iOS12's flawless syncing recedes into the past, I'm afraid the easier it will be for Apple to tune-out the past.

Still waiting on Apple to fix this issue....but yes you’ve got the situation correct, one photo with a GPS location attached to the photo file and another, or multiple other photos without the location attached.

Ive sent detailed logs of the sync error to Apple via an Advisor over a period of a few weeks. His response to me was that engineers are investigating and to continue to update the phone and computer and check whether the issue persists.

Unfortunately the issue persists. When iOS14 comes out all I can say is it must be fixed, or else demonstrates Apple has lost touch with its consumer base in a profound way, considering the volume of customer complaints about this very same issue.

will keep updating as I get more info....

I'm having the same issue since several month with my 11 pro and MBP 16" Catalina 10.15.5

but it looks like on my iPad Pro 9,7" under 13.5 I don't have the same issue ????

with my iPhone, on some albums, I have 30 to 50% more pictures (duplicates) !!!

I have to remove all albums and sync again to have an acceptable quantity of duplicates :(

I spoke several months ago to a apple tech in France and he was not aware of this problem :o

I try to uncheck the metadata but it doesn't seem to work neither

Yes. It's not Catalina related. The bug causing this issue is within iOS 13.

I've tired to turn the 'sync all' off then on again, works for a short time, then the duplicates start again.

Same problem here with my iPhone XS Max and iOS 13.1. I'm transferring my photos from an iMac mid 2010 with High Sierra. In addition to the duplicates problem, some photos are not synced (about 80 of a total of 18000). Really annoying!

Mac (Catalina 10.15)

iPhone 11 Pro Max (13.1.2)

iPad Pro 11 (13.1.2)

I have the same issue. I have 27K photos in my Mac "Photos" library. I sync to my iPhone 11 Pro and iPad Pro 11 and some photos get duplicated on sync. Then I have to delete all by un-checking. Not to mention when the photos are synced and duplicates occur more storage on both devices in being used.

(On previous phones and OS I used to love to have all my photos in my pocket... now I only sync selected photos due to this bug).

Same issue here. I’ve synced using Apple Photos as the source, and have synced using the actual albums in Finder as the source, and I end up with 3+ copies of thousands and thousands of photos. I’m using Catalina.

When I look at them in Albums they are not duplicated but when you go to All Photos, they are rampantly duplicated. My 250GB 8+ ran out of storage because of this duplicate photo issue.

Same exact issue as you guys are describing. I actually used iExplorer to go into my phone and delete all photos... In addition I have 27k photos... how can apple screw a perfectly working app so bad?!?!

You might be right about that. I first sync photos with iPhone pro and next day saw metadata not included in sharing so I did pressed that and it added over 2k photos to my library, one with location others without (originals?)

Mac (Catalina 10.15.1)

iPhone 11 Pro Max (13.2.2)

Exactly the same issue here

Absolute nightmare every time I perform a sync with my photos

I have around 20,000 photos and every time I sync there is some sort of issues:-

* duplicates appearing randomly

• photos disappearing altogether (has reduced 20,000 photos to 8,000 for no reason)

Like others have said I like to keep all my photos with me, hence the reason for buying the biggest capacity iPhone

It just seems to have a mind of its own and does things randomly.

I try a number of things to try and get it back to normal but I am not sure which one of them works as it is hit or miss.

* I go into Photos go to preferences, click on General and Show Photo Library in Finder and double click on it

* I click on the Photos Tab on the syncing finder window and switch between sync all photos and sync all albums

I am not sure if any particular one of them works but it works sometimes and then when I sync again it goes back to randomly doing whatever it wants to do again

Apple need to sort it out

Last night I disabled iCloud (iCloud sharing) and selected on my phone to transfer originals only. So far so good as it did transfer all photos to my phone.

another thing to keep in mind is that 80Gb pictures need time to sync. Even when “finder” shows you it has finished sync it doesn’t (at least what I noticed)

Ipad pro was tested and 2Gb file needs 2min to be transferred. So 40Gb photos would take 40min? correct me if I’m wrong but cable with usb-c has 480m/s speed? same as any other Apple cable

You will sync only the picture you put in the folders, so originals only! And of course every folder is an album. So if you want the same picture in different albums you have to duplicate it. You will no longer use photos app to organize your library. So no edited versions, no album, no geotagging etc...