Mac Os Catalina do not sync photos with iOS Devices

Thanks. That is encouraging. I may try the iOS 14 upgrade.

I just tried syncing from iMac with Big Sur to my iPhone, and it finally works!!

Looks like Apple has decided to skip Catalina and solved the issue with Big Sur.

Tried several tips, but still having missing fotos in albums, melting pictures in albums coming from others albums

that's very disappointed ☹️

I'm having less troubles than before Big Sur, but still missing some pictures not syncing !!

The good news is that there are no more melting pictures between albums !!!

Unfortunately Big Sur is not an option for me as long as there is that backdoor 😬. Furthermore still too many apps not compatible e.g. MacUpdate Desktop.

Finally solved this after 2 weeks:

1. Updated Mac Mini to Catalina 10.15.7
2. Updated both iPad and iPhone to iOS 14.0.1
3. On iOS devices, Settings > General > Reset > Reset All Settings

After the reset, my albums showed on the Finder - iOS devices - Photos and I could sync my photos to them again!

Yep I am having the same problem in Catalina with my iPad Pro 11" padOS 1.3 and iphone8Plus on ios 1.3

Albums in the root can sync to the device, Albums embedded in folders do not Sync when selected. Clearly a Bug that should have been tested

Since Apple never fixed the sync in the last version of iTunes even though I and many others reported it -

(see thread here:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250270137 )

I don't expect an ETA from them, I'm not hopeful at all. Maybe I'm wrong.

I have had the same issue and it has existed for about 6 months in Mojave and continues in Catalina.

The only way I have been able to sync to my devices is to uncheck photos and remove them from my device; delete the iPod Photo Cache folder from my Mac, and then re-sync fresh. This still takes forever, and you have to do the same step for each device. And tany time you want to resync your device to your Mac, you will have to do it again.

Apple needs to fix this immediately - it is unacceptable.

I also called Apple Support. The analyst I got says this problem is NOT with their engineers because they simply do not have enough user communications stating that this is a wide spread problem. I told her to google it and she will get thousands of hits. Her reply was that they do not have access to google from her work computer. OK, I can understand that since Apple considers Google the Evil Empire, but if you don't have a better option... I even told her about various threads of this problem, including this one, on their own Apple Support site. PLEASE everyone, log this onto Apple Support and mention this "bug", so they can recognize this as a problem. That's the first step before they even consider fixing it. BTW, her solution was to reinstall the upgrade. I do not want to spend 2 hours like some of these other postings with them and end with the same result, so I politely declined. https://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html https://www.apple.com/feedback/macos.html

That's interesting. I upgraded to Mojave when it was available, but did not have any problems with the syncing. The problem didn't start until I upgraded to Catalina. As I noted before, when I called Apple Support, the engineers did not see this as a big issue. Maybe it only happens for a percentage of users?

Apple,

Please, please fix this problem. I really need to be able to organize photos and videos on my MBP into specific folders and then sync those folders to my iPhone accordingly, as I have done for many years until Catalina came out. This is definitely a Catalina OS problem. Please fix this problem ASAP. I am a loyal, committed Apple customer, but this problem is EXTREMELY frustrating. Please get this fixed ASAP!

Hi, I had the same problem however, all that was necessary in the end to do to solve it was to change the Photos settings to sync on iCloud: 1. open the Photos app, 2. go to 'System Preferences' 3. go to 'iCloud' 4. check 'Photos on iCloud'.

The operational system on my Macbook is in Czech therefore I'm not 100 % sure if I translated the individual steps in the process exactly as it is in English but I suppose it won't be too different.

I'm Glad (and disappointed) i'm not imagining things and im not the only one experiencing this. given both my devices exhibit the same symptoms many others mus be experiencing this as well. I'm beyond frustrated with this. FFS this is their (Apple) own IN HOUSE OS's (iOS,padOS,MacOS) , Hardware (MBP,MB,iPhone,iPad) and software (photos app desktop and mobile). There is nothing third party about this and they still manage to F this up majorly. And worse they do not acknowledge anywhere that this is a problem. How did this ever pass acceptance testing and made available for General release. This is such a poor experience but for many users .We simply can't just and easiliy migrate our lifelong collection of memories and media to another platform. We need to have the TRUST that they can deliver.

I too have spent a couple of hours with apple support - upto level 3! with this issue. My original problem was not being able to sync a new album of photos. After two hours of help all my synced albums were removed from my iPad!!

The suggestion was to update both iPad and Mac operating systems so I am now on iPad 13.1.3 and I have updated the Mac also but it still calls itself 10.15.

So I have tried again syncing and it does sort of work but only small sized photos are synced such as one taken on an iPhone or and old camera that only produced 4mb files. More recent photos taken on a Nikon which creates 20mb files were not transferred.

So some improvement but Apple still need to work on this