Synchronize titles and captions of photos in macOS with iOS

If you want to sync the titles and captions, the keywords, the albums, the folder between your devices use iCloud Photos. Your Photos will be stored in iCloud with all metadata, albums, smart albums, folders, and from there synced across all your devices.

When you sync between two Macs with iCloud Photos, the Photos Libraries on both devices will be identical.

When you sync the libraries between a Mac and an iOS device (Phone, iPad) you will only be able to see the metadata that the iPhone or iPad can handle. The Photos.app on an iPhone or iPad does not support titles, keywords, or Smat albums, so you will not be seeing them on these devices. But you will be seeing the captions you added on a Mac on the iPhone or iPad. And you can even see the keywords, if you search for them.

On my Macs I am always adding the titles of a photo to the captions as well, so I can see the information from the titles on my iPhone and iPad as well. On my Mac I need primarily the titles, because only the titles are displayed below the thumbnails.

With my ability iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (5th generation), I am having difficulties in organizing photos, which are a mix of “how to’s” or screenshots that have nothing to do with memories. There appears that there is not a way to separate these functional jpegs from actual photos of people; resulting in two batches of jpegs. As I am 71 years old, I also have a boatload of scanned photos, to which I am changing the location and date/time in their metadata. I am attempting an ambitious project of creating a memoir of my life through photos with succinct notes explaining what’s happening in the photos to tie all the photos together. Thus far I have 125 albums.

Besides the problem of not being able to easily separate out functional jpegs from photos with people (or scenery images), as you know, a photo could be in just one album, multiple albums or no albums. Since this information on where photos are located is not available (i. e., for each photo, indicating whether it is in no album, one album, 2 albums, or 3 albums etc.) it makes it very difficult for me to keep track of all my photos by simply counting how many photos are in all my albums which cannot be reconciled to the total number of photos in “Recents”.

For a variety of reasons, I am considering a purchase of a Mac, including the Mac’s better photo organizing features. But frankly, I have no idea if a Mac could solve the problem I just described. Please let me know. Thanks