Problem with year view on shared iCloud library

Since ios16, and after moving most of our collection to a shared library with my wife, I have experienced an issue with the library Year view.

When set to view both libraries, shared and personal, many years have disappeared and there is a blank space where they should be. The years show back up when selecting either personal or shared library view only. Monthly view and all photos view is not affected.

Mac photos does not appear to suffer from this bug and the years show correctly there when viewing both libraries. Is anyone else experiencing this and is there an easy fix?

Thanks.

iPhone 11

Posted on Nov 2, 2022 8:46 AM

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ArthurGaudio

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Posted on Jan 12, 2023 10:26 PM

I had the same problem after going through my entire library and moving most of it to a shared library. I found a solution, albeit somewhat time consuming.

For Mac, you need to close Photos, Command-Option open Photos and choose repair library. And then wait until it is done. Takes a long time for a large library (60,000+ photos and 1,200+ videos in my case).
For iOS/iPad OS you need to go into settings and turn off iCloud Photo sync. Then elect to remove the optimized photos from the device when prompted. Wait a few seconds and then turn on iCloud Photo sync again. And then wait. Again, takes some time

In both cases, I believe I also had to quit the photos app when I was done, but then when I came back, the missing years in the year view were filled in again. I believe I may also have quit and restarted Photos a couple of times during the process in both cases.

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mlogen

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Jan 15, 2023 2:15 AM in response to ArthurGaudio

Thank you very much. This also fixed my issue across 5 devices and 40k photos/videos! I hope Apple take note and fix this permanently their side.

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