Mac Os Catalina do not sync photos with iOS Devices

Hi everyone.

I have just tried it with latest update to mac, 10.15.5 along with most update iPad os, 13.5. Same result - some black images in my photos.

71 pages, and no sign Apple taking serious. I have a call with them today as have spent over 50 hours, and has gone up to senior engineer team but i am not kidding myself, not expecting much.

I remember the early Apple ads that poked fun at Microsoft. Being in IT I thought that was a bit cavalier. Apple has become just another tech company. Their software quality control, software support and customer support has really suffered. Catalina showed this and Tim Cook pledged that this would be overhauled.

I was waiting to see if anyone had any success too. I may try to rebuild the photos file noted previously and see if that makes any difference. It pains me every time I have to do a sync to get my desired photos onto my iPad. Not the Apple experience I thought I had joined.

Luckily, if you can call it lucky, I never tried syncing my iPad after what happend with my iPhone. While it does not have all of my pictures, It has many more of the albums than what I now have on my phone.

Photos seems ok but iTunes is junk. I can’t even download a new album from the iTunes Store(iPad & iPhone XR have downloaded fine so it’s the Mac OS X) I tried to add music via ext DVD player., no joy, Fault displays. Also some existing albums have been deleted. So for me it’s a retrograde step. I have the previous update on an external drive which works fine plus time machine backups from before Catalina was released on my LaCie drive.

it seems i have a bit of work to do to restore some files, perhaps by reverting to the previous release. I will wait a day or two to see what other mysterious fall out of the ether. Any one had other disasters from Apple. Don’t you just love them to bits😩

No offence Andreahackney but paying for iCloud and it still doesn’t work is even more of a disaster. Now you’ve paid for something twice and it still dose t work. The next $ I throw at this problem is to upgrade to a Synology NAS. At least I won’t have to worry about missing files, photos, documents or media with Apples next OS failure. Time to kill the ecosystem and start fresh. I’m sure you like many of us here switched to Apple because “it just works”. If that is no longer the case there is no reason to pay for the premium.

I thank you for your contribution. Please do not take this post as a negative tone to you or anyone else struggling to find a solution that is only Apples to resolve.

You must have misunderstood my comments re my photos syncing across all my devices at the present time and via iCloud. AsI said above, when I take photos on my iphone they are immediately synced with my iMac and my iPad so my new photos appear on all my devices without me having to do anything..

I can then put these new photos in albums using the photos app on my iMac and they appear in the correct albums on all my devices... this sync automatically via icloud so worth paying $4 a month (less than the cost of a cup of coffee)

The only issue I have now is if I connect my phone or ipad via cable to my iMac it wants to import all my photos again... and I do not allow this to happen as the photos are already there.

For me the problem is nearly solved and I can live with the last little issue now we have ll got used to Apple NOT performing as well as it used to.

Andreahackney

I'm only commenting on your statement: "if I connect my phone or ipad via cable to my iMac it wants to import all my photos again" - I just want to make sure that you do NOT have "Sync Photos to your Device from..." checked (ticked) in Finder when you plug your iPhone or iPad into your iMac. That COULD be why it wants to import your photos again.

If you already knew this, sorry - just wanted to make sure. 😀

Glad to hear that you have a solution that works for you. However, it appears to be off the issue of this forum that you cannot select specific albums on your MAC to sync to your iPhone or iPad which all started with the introduction of Catalina.

It has always been my understanding from conversation with Apple, that when you sync to iCloud, it is either all or nothing. I for one do not want all my photos on my iPhone or iPad. I want to be able to choose specific albums in Finder; something that I could always do until Catalina.

Strangely this time the update screwed up my music, deleting random albums @ tracks, i could not use my ext drive to load music from dvd it did not affect photos as far as I can tell. I have reloaded my mac with a time machine backup then reloaded the update. This time it’s ok, but a lot of messing about.

Catalina downloads appear to be unstable, it did not occur to me to run the latest OS X in its entirety as it might have saved me hours of farting about.🙃

Another great Apple "upgrade." that causes MILLIONS of hours of frustration for their customers. Thanks Apple! I love it when my computer tells me that I am wrong. "Photos cannot be synced to the iPhone “iPhone 11” because your Photos Library could not be found. Open Photos to create or update your Photos Library."

Nonsense. Your OS screwed this up, and we are expected to spend hours of our time fixing it.

Another Apple-****-BUG I just discovered: I tried to cancel an Album in Photos.app on my Desktop Mac after transferring the content in a New Created Album, and rename it with the same name of the old one (in my case “Personal Workspace 2011-19”). And surprise,surprise, the new folder is completely missing on my iOS device after Syncing.......

Yes and as quickly as we can post these comments about Apple and how they do not address users concerns anymore, they erase these posts. It's sad that they refuse to fix but they also sanitize this list of negative comments. There is truly a good reason for these negative comments, but they don't want the world to read them.

I'm still getting duplicated photos and photos failing to sync from macOS 10.15.5 and iOS 13.5.1! Complete MADNESS. I've never seen an Apple release this bad. These bugs have existed since OCTOBER!

still the same problem: ******* catalina (worse than the huricane) 10.15.5 (last one) and all ipad pro and XS max updated and nothing: not all the fotos syncronized. It worked, instead, with iphone pro max 11..

Why it's so difficult to make an easy thing like that work? It ALWAYS worked in years..

I am leaving this forum as posting here is a total waste of time. It would appear that they do not care care enough to read about this problem and fix it. I am very annoyed with the amount of time I have wasted trying to recover my lost photos from old back ups, but also very upset that many photos of people, places and memories have been lost forever as it was after several overwriting backups that I discovered about a 3rd of my photos had been corrupted in the transfer of the old library system. Even the ones I have recovered have been stripped of all metadata, so I have thousands of photos with no dates, locations or camera info. This is really not good enough.

I have for years made several backups of music, photos and other files, but never expected the actual software I was using to cause me this amount of distress. All recovered photos now exported from Photos and will never ever trust another one of their products. And finally NO - I will not be forced into paying more for cloud storage, by factoring in what I can only assume to be deliberate programming glitches. It was the numerous failed syncs with phones and pads that also caused these corruptions, many of which occurred whilst online with a so called expert.

I wish the rest of you the best of luck but strongly suggest you find another platform to store and edit your important data.