Mac Os Catalina do not sync photos with iOS Devices

I just tried another sync with iOS 13.7 and 10.15.6. It's still re-copying music and photos for no apparent and burning my CPU to the ground. Again, I imported 12 photos from iOS to macOS Photos and sync'd, and it's now been 2.5hrs and the sync isn't finished yet. It's been eleven months since iOS 13 and macOS 10.15 were released, AND I STILL CAN'T SYNC MY PHOTOS OR MUSIC!

Finder has been stuck like this for several hours. No status. No ETA on completion.

I just added three more tickets around various problems with photos including syncing. I did a full resync again with macOS 10.15.6 and iOS 13.7 and _most_ of my photos sync'd, but then I resync'd and got missing photos and duplicates once again. It's so infuriating! It's literally been a year, and I can't sync between macOS and iOS reliably.

Had another re-sync error on iOS 13.7 / macOS 10.15.6. macOS copied over 19,000 photos even though only eight needed to be sync'd, and now I have 34,000 on my iPhone when my entire macOS library is 22,438. Also, I'm getting "unable to copy [video file name] because it cannot be played on this iPhone".

For me it is not solved at all. The opposite happened. I bought a new iPhone 11Pro and synced it directly with my iPhone X. The Photos problem is the same as I had before.

But Apple gave me a new Apple-Bug-S.h.i.t problem to solve, I think they want me not only to buy iCloud Upgrades, no now theye want me to buy Music....all my Albums synced with iTunes now are showing wrong COVERS, they are completely messesd up. So I listen to Bach Arias but the illustrations shows me a Sting-Album, or Bob Marley now appears in a completely new Ella Fitzgerald Look.....

My compliments go to the Amateurs of Apple.

Yeah, and add to the fact that on update, macOS 10.15 blows away everything in the /etc directory. I've literally had to write shell scripts to restore my sshd_config and sudoers files because Apple insists on making sshd insecure by default with password authentication being re-enabled and disabling TouchID in sudoers.

Unfortunately the issue for me is still there. What I noticed is that if have photos in more than one album, than they are not loaded into the iPhone. But again this is totally unpredictable. What is the reason behind this bug is to me not clear. But it's a big shame for people at Cupertino! Especially considering that this feature was working like a charme before!

I have been contributing to this thread for the past year. This weekend I thought it was safe to upgrade my iPad Air 3 to iPadOS 14 with the 14.2 variant. Now Photos on my iPad crashes upon launch! I have not tried to sync to my iMac. I can view photos by tapping the last photo thumbnail in the Camera app but no access to albums.

I tried resetting and powering off the iPad but no change. So I started a thread for this problem. Will call Support today. Very frustrating.

hello,

very disappointed !!!

I just put iOS 14.2 on my iPad Pro 9,7"

Stil having troubles syncing my photos library :(

I have about 25000 pictures on the iPad, and all of the albums from my Mac book pro 16" are missing some or a lot of pictures :

album with 52 pict, only 51 on ipad

album with 706 pictures and movies, only 230 pict !!!! on iPad.

and counting ....

but didn't found any double at least !!

Hi all, has any one had experience of Big Sur which releases today. Does it address the issues relating to Catalina or merely introduced new ones. For what it’s worth my iPad Pro & iPhone XR are synchronised with my MacBook Air 2020 all on latest updates available, with no problems at present although I don’t sync then very often for obvious reasons. 😂

I can confirm too. Big Sur did NOT solve the issue. Really same problem as usual.

Is there a way we can get Apple's attention? Someone here on this board must know somebody to get this going, like somebody in the news media world?

How in the F world can Apple F this up so long is beyond me. Can't even do a simple copy/paste task right......

I have a similar question and started a thread here:

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

Not exactly the same issue since I haven't used the Photos app, but it all could be related.

I was just on a chat with Apple Support. The person advised: https://support.apple.com/de-de/HT204063 (NVRAM oder PRAM auf dem Mac zurücksetzen).

I don't think that is going to solve the issue

I never had that problem with iTunes.

They need to fix it because probably all users are effected, and the Apple TV system, too.

So I will stay optimistic :-)

I don't use the Photos app and have a similar problem, so it's even beyond that app.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250716061?answerId=251381429022&page=1

Keep posting and contacting Apple!