How can you create a photo Album on your iPhone and import that Album onto your computer (in my case a PC)? It appears you can only sync from the computer to the iPhone, which is the opposite direction of what's desired in this case.

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How can you create a photo Album on your iPhone and import that Album onto your computer (in my case a PC)? It appears you can only sync from the computer to the iPhone, which is the opposite direction of what's desired in this case.

It appears that sync'ingis pretty much one way, from the desktop to the device. If you create a folder on the desktop that is synced through iTunes with the iPhone, that folder appears as an Album in Pictures on the device. But on the device you cannot add photos to that synced Album, so there is no way to use the desktop-based Album as an evolving target for new pictures on the phone, unless you do all the additions on the desktop software.
This really isn't "syncing".

Further, if you create a new Album on the iPhone, it doesn't appear in the sync'ed folders on the desktop.

The configuration for this discussion is iTunes 11 on Windows PC, iPhone 4S, and Windows Photo Gallery for picture editing on the PC.

I'd like to have Albums and PC-based Picture Folders truly sync'ed. Am I missing something or is this truly an iTunes Photo Sync'ing deficiency?

iTunes sync with iPhone pictures

Posted on Apr 20, 2014 12:47 PM

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Answer 1

roaminggnome

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Apr 20, 2014 12:57 PM in response to rhayesroth

The camera roll is not part of the sync process at all.

You should be importing these photos to your computer regularly as you would with any digital camera. Youc an organize them on your computer and sync the to the iphone if you wish.

The photos sync from the computer to the iphone is one way.

The iphone mirrors the selected content of the computer to which it is synced.

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Apr 20, 2014 12:59 PM in response to rhayesroth

You can use 3rd party apps and cloud-based photo storage. The app MyPics lets you create photo albums in Google Picasa from your iPhone, which you can then access with any web browser on a computer or with the Picasa app on your computer. Shutterfly has a similar app and capability.

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rhayesroth Author

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Apr 20, 2014 5:39 PM in response to Lawrence Finch

This is a good crisp answer.

I think this is a misfeature of iTunes and would recommend to Apple that they do a better job of symmetry "syncing" which, after all, is what syncing means.

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rhayesroth Author

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Apr 20, 2014 5:39 PM in response to roaminggnome

I think this pretty much missed the point, which was about syncing Albums, not syncing with Camera Roll.

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