Mac Os Catalina do not sync photos with iOS Devices

I've been trying to make photo syncing work between macOS and iOS since Catalina since it was released, but it still doesn't. The albums in folders problem seems to be gone, but re-syncing seems to be unreliable. Finder seems to want to copy thousands of photos all the time. The only thing that occasionally works is to remove the entire iPod Photos cache and then sync to iOS. The other issue is that macOS' photoanalysis daemon is constantly burning through CPU and my laptop is hot to the touch. iOS syncing with Finder isn't even at a beta stage at this point. I would advise to avoid iOS 13.x and macOS 10.15.x altogether. It's a complete disaster. I've never seen problems like this with macOS and iOS before.

Hoyhoy

Inwould be waiting for Big Sur update.

The beta version has ironed out the issues I have had ever since Catalina was introduced and my photos sync perfectly as do albums. I am now about to put my albums into folders again and see what happens with the as I had to forget about folders during the whole debacle.

I had the same problem.

it appears that you can only sync albums if they are in the main album directory. If the album is in a subfolder it refuses to sync.

I hope Apple solves this irritant bug.

You updated to 10.15.2? Because the update before certainly didn't correct the problem.

I'm going to install Mojave on an external HD and use this system just for the purpose to sync photos with iTunes.

Mac OS 10.15.1, iPhone6S IOS 13.2.3 (just upgraded): only folders directly under "My Albums" are sync'd. Nested folders: no way!

Using the Apple photos/finder application to try and do something it no longer does - sorry to sound so negative but you may as well give up until the Catalina operating system is updated.

This is clearly a Photos bug. I submitted a bug report (its been there a long time through many builds) through the apple feedback app. Will see what happens

As above.... Tried to sync albums with no luck. Did manage to "Share" an album with myself but 250 images took an age to down load. But it worked.

Try my solution I mentioned above... Worked perfectly for me. Just repaired the original photos library, unless you are in the same boat as @copperlanding

Delete all pictures from synch process. My Mac seems to give this option after I have added new pictures to my library.

To all participants in this discussion: if you have not done so please raise a problem report at the following 2 pages:

https://www.apple.com/feedback/macos.html

and

https://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html

I believe that is the way to get Apple’s attention.

I will raise 2 reports every day.