How to sync adjusted time from Photos on Mac and Photos in iPhone

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How to sync adjusted time from Photos on Mac and Photos in iPhone

Hello. I am doing a huge scan/import project of all my very old family photos. I want to keep them in chronological order of when the photo was actually taken, not when there were scanned. I am adjusting them in the photo app on my MacBook Air running OS Mojave version 10.14.6, using Photos version 4.0. I am optimizing storage on my phone by storing my files in iCloud Photos.

My question is: why are some recently scanned photos, whose dates I have changed on my MacBook, still showing up on my phone Photos among my recently taken photos? And how can I fix this problem??

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.14

Posted on Sep 7, 2021 12:29 PM

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TonyCollinet

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Sep 7, 2021 12:44 PM in response to Melinda Lyons

Hi

Are you syncing both the mac and the phone with iCloud?

And is your mac photos library set to be the system library?

Go to preferneces in photos and check that the circled button is greyed out. If not, click it.

In the iCloud tab check it is as shown.

If everything looks ok, check the sync status at the bottom of the all photos view. If it is still ongoing, you will need to wait until it is complete before all data is updated on the phone.

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Answer 2

Sep 7, 2021 1:58 PM in response to TonyCollinet

Yes, both my iPhone & my Mac are syncing to the cloud. Now it DOES seem to be working. I am wondering if the delay in the syncing is due to lack of storage space on both my Mac & my iPhone?

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Sep 7, 2021 3:07 PM in response to Melinda Lyons

Possibly - but more likely if you've just added a lot of images, the syncing is really slow.

How bad is your lack of space - if less than 20Gb on the mac, you really need to do somthing about it.

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How to sync adjusted time from Photos on Mac and Photos in iPhone

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