Mac Os Catalina do not sync photos with iOS Devices

My issue is not all the photos in a particular album will sync, and I'm only sync-ing like three albums, maybe 100 photo. If I duplicate the photo in question it will then sync. However, sometimes I can't duplicate the photo, just won't duplicate, so I find the original in Photos, share it with myself via messages, reimport it, add it to the album, and maybe I have to duplicate it or maybe I don't, it depends, but I can't tell you what it depends on but it will then sync sometimes both sync, then I delete one usually saving the duplicate. I'd hate to be working with thousands of photos.

It's been over a year now and the macOS Finder to iOS syncing problems are still not fully fixed. I finally resync'd from 10.15.7 to 14.0.1 and it has seemed to work for the past few weeks, but I've had spells of the syncing working and then not working. The first time I sync'd iOS 14.0 to macOS 10.15.7, it absolutely didn't work. It's funny to me when I see all Apple announce a LIDAR TWELVE CORE NEURAL ENGINE. Their engineers literally can't figure out how to copy photos and music from my laptop to my phone. AND FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR THEY COULDN'T MAKE IT WORK! You'd think that would get solved before they solved artificial intelligent smart HomePod Siri agents! LOL. I literally can't search for photos of myself on my iPhone despite tagging them multiple times in iOS and macOS over the past fifteen years. I probably would have upgraded my iPhone last year, but I feel like Apple has totally abandoned their technical users at this point. I'm thinking just replace the battery in my old iPhone X and buy a Sony RX100 VII at this point. It's madness that Apple couldn't make the iPhone 12 Pro use the wider sensor. I don't want to carry around an iPad mini (iPhone 12 Max) to use the full size camera sensor.

I have the same exact issue...

All my photo albums are in folders and I am unable to sync any of them!

Is apple aware of this issue?

I had a structure of folders of pictures spanning years 18,957 pictures that on my iPad Pro are now just a random 84 pictures!!!

What is going on?

Same here, same problem with iPhone (and Apple TV), two calls with Apple, second one for 2 hours, up to expert support level, but they are now aware of this problem.

It‘s the same error in iTunes since April 2019. 6 months later no in Catalina!

Also Just adding my name to the list. Until a update that resolve the issue, I activated "Automatically include photos from Last year" at least I have some photos on the phone

FWIW, it's not just albums, but folders too. I've posted here and in another thread that I don't use the Photos app but still cannot sync properly.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250716061

In Apple's Beta program...just google....I talk about MacOS 10.15.1...

According to multiple postings in this thread, you have to post to this site if you want Apple to listen: https://www.apple.com/feedback/

Hi Patti. I didn’t create a folder hierarchy for my albums. Just create a new smart album in the Photos app on my mac each year, with a date filter.

CB

Ok. I, like others on this community board, have their albums in folders. Prior to Catalina, I could check off which albums I wanted out of any given year's folder and they would sync to my phone.

I have called and logged the issue directly with apple as well.

Recommend as many as possible do so as well.

I have iPhone 11 and an old iPad Air 2 and syncing didn't work properly on either of them. Now I am back on Mojave and things are fine.

So, this is still happening with the latest iOS and macOS as has been happening since the macOS 10.15 / iOS 13 releases started. Instead of Catalina, Apple should have called 10.15 "Dumpster Fire"