I get duplicate photos when I sync my iPhone 6

Shanny2015's solution also worked for me. Thanks! Finally! This has been a huge PITA!

This solution worked for me, iPhone settings, camera & photos de selected "keep normal photo"

using Lion, new iPhone 6,

iphone 6 here ... this started today, and i've imported lots of photos into iphoto and it didn't happen. followed shanny2015's suggestion, and it seemed to work.

i've also turned off my photo stream because i was getting a message that phone couldn't be backed up since i needed more icloud memory.

I Just Got photo duplicated from MacBook Yosemite to iPhone 6 plus ios8

steps to reproduce

1. Make photos by iphone

2. Import them into MacBook iPhoto

3. Open iTunes and sync all photos. Select folder for sync as iPhoto folder.

4. After this iPhone get all his photos from p.1 duplicated.

5. You can delete original photos from p.1 , but new duplicated photos can not be deleted on iPhone

6. IPhoto in Macbook shows photos are not duplicated.

As far as i understand issue is that in p.2 after importing photos into library, iTunes expect that after import, you select the YES option for delete photos after import.

If you decide to keep original photos you get sync issue.

I Am going try to delete photos after import and see if this solve issue. But it can work only for new photos.

Adding to the list. This is an intermittent issue - dupes for weeks then stops for a while, then starts again. Everything iCloud unchecked on phone, iPhoto, iTunes not syncing any photos. I import by plugging phone into computer, open iPhoto, dialog pops up asking to import. At this point I already have dupes when this is happening.

OS 10.9.5

iOS 8.3 on iPhone 6

iPhoto 9.5.1

This came back early today, which is why I searched to see if anyone had a fix yet. But just now I took 2 images, checked phone - only 2. Plug into computer and only 2 to import. Random. iRandom.

What i'm finding since the OSX update to the new photo app, is that every photo I have ever edited is duplicated on my iCloud drive, thus taking up double of the amount of space. What it's doing is saving the original photos and then adds the edited version of each photo. Why does it not just save the edit on top of the original photo rather than create a new one? Odd

I had this issue as well. Something I did helped.

I connected my iPhone to my Macbook Pro -> opened Image Capture from my utilities folder->Selected my iPhone under devises->Selected all the photos on my iPhone and selected the delete symbol in the bottom toward the left side (The null sign).

For some reason this only deleted the duplicates... I wasn't to worried because I had a backup of all my photos so if it really did delete everything on the phone then I would just reload them. (This is what I was going to do in the first place but didn't need to).

Hopefully this will work for some people.

Hi KiwiniD

Sorry to re-open this again but I cannot see the solution for those that are not connecting their phone to an Apple PC/laptop? Unless I am missing something. I have a non Apple laptop that I am connecting to, I have tried so many things to get rid of the photos but nothing works 😟

This exactly sums up the issue I'm having, except I have photo stream turned on on the iPhone. I think this may be photo stream's incompatibility with the new mac photos app which seems to be pushing users into iCloud photo drive.

I agree. If the boxes are deselected go ahead and select them and then deselect them. This worked for me

Nope, been having the issue for a year. Have done all the steps here, nothing has worked. Don't use PhotoStream, yet still get 2 versions on most syncs. Every once in a while I don't, so I'm not sure what the difference is. It MAY have something to do with those times I send / text a photo as it seems if I just use the camera and sync fairly soon after it is less likely to happen, but I'm not sure. Each sync involves syncing 100 photos for the 50 I took and then manually deleting all the _2 items. Frustrating as its clearly widespread yet Apple seems to be not dealing with it, instead pushing everyone toward the Photos app.

"Me Too"...

My take on this issue is, as many other's have guessed... it is a PhotoStream/Photos bug.

It seems like Photos automatically imports photos from PhotoStream ( but not videos of course ) and then when the iPhone is attached the it does do a 'good' job of recognizing duplication, and suggests ignoring the previously imported pictures ( typically just leaving me with the videos).

However, I was anxious that the PhotoStream copies might not be full resolution, HDR, etc... so I forcibly imported the files from the phone ( despite the 'duplicate' warning) and also used the handy 'delete after import' tool. And then... ended up with duplicates in my library. The stinky part there is... at a glance it is hard to tell which is which... so I deleted one copy of each of the duplicates... and poof ... there went the PhotoStream copies.

I'm trying hard to love the new shiny-ness of Photos and move on from iPhoto... but the new UI does have a bit of unexpected behavior for sure. For now, I'm looking into 3rd party duplicate apps from the Store. Hoping they are a quick way to sort out, tag, and eventually delete duplicates. Likewise maybe dear Apple will figure out a cleaner way for Photos to merge automagic PhotoStream imports, and direct downloads from iOS.