Why does my iPhone duplicate pictures that I have syncronised into a folder on the gallery called Photo Library?

You can't delete the Photo Library or alter it. The iPhone organizes photos the same way that iPhoto does on a Mac. All photos synced to your phone appear in the "Photo Library". The various folders/albums merely contain pointers to the actual photos, which are stored in the Photo Library. They are not duplicated.

The Photo Library has always been there.

This is not true, and I am now having the same problem. Going all the way back to the original iPhone, I have always had one folder created in iPhoto that I selected to sync with my iPhone. That gave me 2 total libraries on iPhone that I've had with each phone/software update; "Camera Roll" and the one I created "iPod/iPhone." Those were always the only two on there. Now, with the 5.0 update, the 79 photos that were in the synced iPhoto library called "iPod/iPhone" are duplicated in a 3rd folder called "Photo Library." This was never there and it is an exact duplicate of the folder I created as it contains the same amount of photos (79) and they are the exact same photos. This has just occured with the new update, so something changed. I'm now trying to figure out how to get rid of that folder as it does not appear in iPhoto as a synced folder and it is clearly a duplicate of the one I do want to keep, the one I've always had.

I'm having the same issue. This was not on my Iphone 3Gs but when I upgaded and synch my new Iphone 5

It created anohter folder, photo libary, with the same photos that's in my Iphone photo folder that I sync.

Hope some one come up with a solution.

What if you check your Photo sync settings in iTunes... deselect all photos you are syncing from your computer to your iPhone. Is that "new" folder still there?

Then re-sync your photos back to your iPhone.

Just saying, sometimes wiping and restarting fixes a problem.

I have the same issue. My phone has duplicates of pics on my pc in the library that I cannot delete. The library wasn't there before this happened. I now have about 2k pics on my phone that I can't get rid of.

I'm having this same issue and I didn't have this problem when I had my Iphone 3GS running IOS 4.3.3 Cydia 1.1.6

I have the same problem. It started when I bought an iPhone 4S and upgraded from my old 3GS. Now I have three albums on my iPhone: Camera Roll, Photo Library, and iPhone Sync (a folder on my PC that I sync to my iPhone). Photo Library and iPhone Sync have the same photos in it. I've tried to figure out how to delete "Photo Library", but haven't figured out how. It seems like some bug in the upgrade created and maintains a duplicate of my original album. It's not the end of the world, but it's annoying.

Update: In case anyone has thought of turning off all photo syncing and then re-syncing to try to get rid of it, it doesn't work. The Photo Library album is just recreated.

Update 2: While I would disagree with WJosten (earlier post above) that the mystery album has always been there, I agree with what he said about it soring all your synced pictures there. To test, I added another synced folder and all of the pictures from my 2 synced folders are also in the Photo Album folder. I have no idea why Apple would display a "master photo folder" and not give an option to hide it. I'm guessing it's an "undocumented feature". haha

hey I am having this same problem, it's quite annoying so if anyone finds a way to get rid of it please post it on here 😀

I have the same problem. I'd also like to know why the photo library takes used less phone memory for the exact same photos. It would be nice to sync back to my phone using only the photo library and save some space. I don't want to delete either folder for fear I might lose my photos.

I don't know if this will work for you guys but it worked for me. Delete all photos in your "Camera Roll" Album on your iPhone. Then go in the "Recently Deleted" album and restore every photo. Looks like this gets rid of all the duplicates in iPhoto.