Mac Os Catalina do not sync photos with iOS Devices

Hey Squiddz,

I think I get it now.

You don't use Photos at all. You store your images on the hard drive and manage via Finder. You sync to other devices via Finder.

What App do you use to edit your images?

rodm7

Yep, you've got it! 👍🏼

I really don't do much photo-editing. I actually had planned to start using PHOTOS at some point (!) but will certainly wait until I have time and is completely functional (I know, good luck with that).

Hopefully someone can give you the answers you need, I wish you the best of luck!

Thanks Squiddz.

Yeah I've used iPhoto and then Photos for about 10 years no major problems until now. There are much better Apps but Photos is (was!) so convenient (I only do a bit of editing) and "free". I've tried other Apps but eventually there would be some major update and the owner would want a lot more money for that update so I gave up on them and went back to Photos.

I'm sure Photos will be fixed soon, Apple is taking too much flack over this.

All the best Squiddz. Thanks for the comments.

OK, I am done with this ******* ********. I am sick of seeing this crap. Apple, you are a bunch of *****, so please delete my account from this thread because the useless **** keeps sending me every ******* update about your ineptitude. **** you Apple. Fix Catalina *****. And hurry up and delete me. Don't delete the post, because I am just going to keep copy and pasting it you ******* lazy useless *****.

gvd1

Oh yes, you are absolutely right. I think I overlooked a couple of words in your post, sorry.

Bowing out of this thread now and wishing all PHOTOS APP users the best of luck getting this fixed, finally!

Hey Barreldogs,

I'm on my 3rd Apple iMac and 2nd iPhone (over 20 years). I used Windows machines at work for 25 years, and I also use Win10 at home.

There have been times I have wanted to throw my iMac or iPhone through the window (except it's double glazed and probably wouldn't break- the window that is, not my iMac screen :) ).

Then I remember that I get so mad at Apple at these time because normally their stuff works really well (for over 20 years).

And I remember that I DID throw a windows machine out a window once because Windows frustrated me every single day.

Unfortunately I DO think Apple is losing some technical "gloss" now that Jobs is gone.

Sigh bring back the old Unix workstations and Commodore 64s!

All the best Barreldogs.

Got excited today when update to Catalina and iOS released. Had high hopes our issue might have been addressed in this update but sadly it does not appear to be a problem that Apple can fix or even wants to fix

After doing updates on iMac, iPhone and iPad Pro, I decided to test how the Photos app would perform. No change whatsoever! Still stuffing up my albums on iCloud. My solution once again was to repair my photoslibrary. This fixed the iCloud issue but did not sync with iPhone or iPad .

totally disappointed.

Much better syncing with the latest update to Catalina, not perfect but I have managed to synch my iPhone XR, iPad Pro & my wife’s iPad 6th generation. Date ordering of pictures is a little random as are duplicates but 7 out of 10 could do better. I have Mojave time machine back ups prior to the launch of Catalina on an external hdd just in case the next update ***** it all up again. iTunes seems to lose some albums or part albums, most odd.

Thanks heaps JNA2. Great detail.

Dunno if I need help anymore but if it all fails again I will follow your suggestions.

Apple needs to publicise this fix for all the users who haven't yet stumbled across it!

As of the new updates of Catalina iOS 13.4.1. It's crazy, the issue is even worst. My iPad Pro is being loaded the photos into triples time after I tried to plug my iPad into my iMac 2019. And it couldn't deleted the photo loaded into my iPad, while I tried to unpick the album in the iTunes to free up the spaces in iPad. Now I can't do my drawing in my iPad as of out of storage. Apple really drive me crazy as of the issue couldn't solved so far almost half of year.

I have sorted it at last. I took my photos library from a time machine back up before Catalina. I copied it to an old iMac (lucky to have one) running El Capitan and made it the new library for the empty photos app. Then I imported all the photos I had taken since last October. I have now recovered all the photos that the Catalina new Photos app migration lost.

It was a lengthy process as I have over 8000 photos and had to go through month by month back to 2002. I found 200+ really important and sentimental photos that Catalina had just lost.

I will now back up this new composite library and sync to my phone and iPad using iTunes in El Capitan. Then I am going to let Catalina convert this library again and then I will know just how many photos it fails on.

I suppose I am lucky that I have this spare machine to do this on, but it has still been a day's work to work around something that in their own words "it just works". Well heh! surprise! "it doesn't. Probably don't care as already had my money for several computers , phones, pads, watches.

Hi JNA for thew detailed work around.

I sync with a folder not with the photos app. Unfortunatley resetting permissions and reinstalling Catalina did not work for me. I did a resetting of NVRAM and SMC already a year ago with the apple support.

I assume that there are multiple reasons for the problem as some users in this forum have different solutions. Most still have none. Anyway I appreciate all the efforts from everyone to find a way out.

Copperlanding

Hi - FWIW, if you read the first post in this thread, the OP intended this thread to be for people who DO use the Photos app to sync. Most of the people posting here do use it.

If you want to read about experiences NOT using the Photos app to sync, please see these two threads (and I'm sure there are more)! Good luck.

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

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250927454

Thanks JNA2 for your follow up - how did you figure out which images were missing from your iOS devices - I know what you mean about doing a minor touch up which will then “reset it” or refresh it somehow so now it syncs... but I’m not sure how to figure out what is missing in albums that have hundreds of images. Besides fixing or deleting your missing images, have you gotten any duplicates or blanks? Like seeing a solid white or solid black square on your iOS devices in place of a pic or video?

I'm having the same problem reported by so many others trying to sync an iPhone XR on iOS 13.3.1, but am already on Catalina 10.15.4. What is the correct method to sync photos from an iPhone XR to a MacBook Pro when both are on the latest system versions? Thanks.