After iOS 15 Update and Mac OS 10.15.7 Update, Photos Are Not Showing on Mac Photos App When Trying to Sync

Hi BRNOllc,

We see after updating your iPhone X to iOS 15, photos you'd like to sync from your iPhone to your Mac no longer show in the Photos app, or are all photos from the Photos app missing?

Additionally, when attempting to sync, are you using the steps outlined in the article below?

• Sync photos between your Mac and iPhone or iPad

Let us know if we understand the issue correctly, and we'll continue from there.

Cheers!

I don’t sync photos this way, so I don’t see your particular problem. But it seems to me that syncing in general is broken now, at least in this combination of macOS 10.15 and iOS/iPadOS 15.

On my iMac, syncing my iPhone or iPad has become rather slow and always runs into a never-ending "step 5 of 5 - waiting for items to copy". When I try to sync many files, I have to switch off all energy saving functions on all devices to even get to that point, because otherwise the result will be a failure message on the way.

Also, the iPhone icon as well as the iPad icon in both, Finder and the Music app have a big question mark in them, which is probably another hint that something’s broken.

Unfortunately, so far, I haven’t found any solution.

(macOS 10.15.7, iOS 15.0, iPadOS 15.0)

Hi,

I have the same problem with IOS 15.0.2 and MacOS 10.15.7 (connected by usb).

1) iPhoto on MAC does not show pictures on iPhone; fixed by disconnecting phone, set it to flight mode, reconnect.

2) when syncing photos, photos are no longer transferred to iPhone; still not working