Mac Os Catalina do not sync photos with iOS Devices

I have just checked for update and found no new version.. I am running latest version and it does not sync photos correctly via iCloud or using finder I am sorry to say. No solution to the issue yet.

Well as expected, Apple deleted my post explaining that I was going to report them to the ACCC over this incident almost instantly after I posted it, but I'm guessing there's more chance it was an algorithm triggered rather than a conspiracy theory that somebody from Apple actually even reads these threads, let alone reading every one and deleting them instantly if they disapprove.

Anyway, official complaint has been lodged with the ACCC, so this will be interesting to see what they have to say about the matter, and also just how quickly this post gets deleted...

over the past few days I have added a large number of photos from my iPhone to my photos system’

All these photos have synced via iCloud to my iPad, my iMac and my iPhone. I use iCloud and they are all in my photos library on iCloud.

All good so far!

The problem arises when I put these photos into albums...either new or existing ones. I use my iMac to do this then sort the albums alphabetically. Many of my albums are in folders

it is now the system does NOT work. The new albums or those I have edited are no longer in alphabetical order on my phone, my iPad or in iCloud....I have to physically put them in alphabetical order on my iPhone and iPad...but have no idea how to do that on iCloud so my albums on iCloud are a dogs breakfast and NOT in alphabetical order as on my iMac and as I want to have them.

Photos are on all my devices but not displayed as I want and as they did UNTIL CATALINA UPDATE....

Is. Wasting so much time manually doing what used to happen seamlessly with Mojave.

Surely it can’t be too hard for the software engineers to produce a patch/update to get this working again....

@DJB23

hu and thanks for your post. Just as an information: Apple has collected my data as well approx a year ago. I am not positive that they are working on it now nor will have a solution with IOS14. I have the issue since IOS12.xx. and apple promised to me that ..“with IOS13 it will work as before...“. The issue is ignored completely.

Sorry for having no better news and I hope that I am wrong...

Yeah, shocking, just this problem and thought eh, cripes whats going on? Crackers or what....basic flipping syncing of photos, which has worked perfectly for years, now screwed up. I have no clue whats going on between my Mac Pro and Iphone SE. Come new laptop and phone time, which isnt far off, I will be seriously reconsidering my options.

I can't even get that far. I have a Photos Library of about 55,000 photos, so I keep it on an external drive. Catalina sync with Finder can't find my Photos Library -- it shows no albums to select. The first time I tried syncing it gave me an error saying it could not find the library. This seems related to the OP's question, but is anyone else having the issue syncing libraries on external drives?

REVISED: Severely disappointed. It looked like everything was fixed... then it kept on 'Restoring' and has gone back to duplication city. DID NOT WORK. I'll update if anything changes once MacOS update is applied.

I'm in the process of my first sync post update of both iOS and Catalina. Somethings have definitely been updated, because opening Photos for the first time post update resulted in a short "updating" process screen. And then the messaging during the sync process is different... but still waiting. I have 40,000 photos, so it is taking a long time for what appears to be a full redo to take place

Hi everyone,

1/ duplication not fixed.

2/ sub folders is now synching !

Another thing : when I synchronize, the system erase all pictures in my iPad and then resync...

If I add a single album with some pictures, it resync all pictures... it's boring 😕

And some pictures are not sync, I don't know why...

Hi Crisu

is it working for albums within folders and have they stopped the multiple copy and paste issue when you place photos imported into different folders so it doesn’t copy everything over and over once you have pasted.

I have the update and will do it tomorrow, interesting how one of the biggest glitches isn’t mentioned as a fix unless I missed it!

Unfortunately the issue is not yet fixed with iCloud syncing. Upgraded Mac and both iPhone and iPad to latest software versions iOS 13.4 and 10.15.4.

still does not recognise already imported photos on both my phone and iPad when I connect to Mac photos...it wants to import a major number of my 17000 photos as new when they have already been imported to my photos library.

The other issue relates to sorting albums alphabetically. Once sorted on my iMac this is not reflected on phone, pad or iCloud.

The only way I can get this to sync across all devices is to repair my photos library...a pain to say the least.

So many phone calls, so many logs sent to software engineers and still they have not fixed the Catalina problem.

Extremrly disappointed!

Question to all the people telling that the problem is solved now: does your iOS device show folders with your albums inside, or does it "flatten" the whole folder structure and show all albums on root, like it is on my device?

Markus

Mine works ok but not perfectly. Some pictures which i have organized in Albums that were taken from my phone to archive on my laptop do not sync back to the phone!!

What i mean by this:

Album 1 (Pictures taken with my Canon) - Syncs perfectly

Album 2 (Pictures taken with my Canon) - Syncs perfectly

Album 3 (Pictures taken with my iphone manually stored on my mac) - doesnt sync neither with my iPad nor with my iPhone.

Album 4 (pictures taken with my Canon) - Syncs perfectly

Anyone else having this issue?

Its so totally **** ... updated qt 5pm ... added a nested Folder 2020 with 5 subfolders... they were synced after one hour (images) and 2 tries.

Now moving all my folders I put out in autumn 2019 after this sync starte to get not longer able to handle back in there folder s 2013 ... 2019 ... well its 6 hour's later and I after multiple crashes I have NONE (ZERO) of the pictures. I watched the sync process transfering 40k of pictures but there is none..

Its ****, this is the worst experience I ever had with apple computers

Bad news for me... I updated my 2015 iMac 5k to Mac OS Catalina 10.15.4 + my iPhone 7 Plus to iOS 13.4 Not sure if it’s because of the older iPhone, but nothing has changed for me. All I’m trying to do is sync these four albums onto my iPhone 7 Plus (total of 1394 photos). Nothing has changed since I updated both devices, this afternoon. The four albums sync but only 1055 photos within these 4 albums show up, which means I’m missing 339 photos). I got the same results w the sync before the updates today, so nothing has changed for me. Might be the older iPhone, that’s causing the problem. If I was a professional photographer, I would of did away w Apple. I use to love Aperture and they did away w that App too. #disgraceful 👎🏼