Cannot sync photos "iPhoto library is not yet available"

I have the same issue. I have rebuilt apple photos library and rebooted computer and iPhone multiple times and I keep getting.

iTunes cannot sync photos to the iPhone “****** iPhone 6” because your Photos Library is not yet available. Please try again later.

I can sync a folder of images just nothing from 'Photos' I have recently upgraded to El Capitain and this happened straight away. I wonder if its an issue with the OS?

I have also tried this on my iPad and the same issue arises. So it's certainly an Mac OS issue. I hope that they sort this out ASAP as it's a MASSIVE bug.

I had the problem while trying to sync my photos with Aperture and I was able to resolve the issue by doing the following:

Click on "photos" tab in the phone's options within itunes

Change "copy photos from: "(dropdown box) to anything other than Aperture

Change "copy photos from:" back to Aperture

Sync completed

I believe unchecking "sync photos" and then rechecking it will most likely accomplish the same thing, but not definite. I hope this is helpful to someone.

Hi all,

I managed to get the iPhone to properly sync after closing Photos and opening Activity Monitor, then in the CPU tab selecting and closing "Photos Agent" and "photolibraryd" from the process list. You may try that and see if it helps.

Versions: iTunes 12.3.0.44, El Capitan (10.11), Photos 1.1, iOS 9.0.2

did you find a solution? I got the same problem and do not know what to do...

did not work for me :-((((

To be honest, it weirdly sorted itself out, after rebuilding photos, restarting the computer etc etc it managed to sort itself out. weird i know. i'll report if it comes back,

Which option/s have you tried?

I tried a lot of options - f.e. removing the some files in the library with helpful advices of "léonie" - but it regrettable did not work....after trying to "repair" - i did not finish because I have many photos and it lasted ages and stayed some time at 6%.. - today I tried to find some answers in the iPhone forum but could not find any...

After some other trying I changed the address of my Photo Library to the safe copy at another HD. I tried to sync with my iPad and it did not work - even was not synchronizing anything - not even the apps :-( I thought I did something wrong.....but I made an new start and tried to sync with my iPhone and VOILA! it works! Afterwards I made a reset on my iPad and the sync was working too... I do not know what happened...but it seems to be o.k.

Thanks for pointing this out thegoodly. I decided to take the plunge and move 15 years worth of digital photos from iPhoto and Aperture into Photos. To say that the migration path has been a pain in the *** is being too kind to Apple. I'll keep an eye on the Activity monitor and hopefully my photos will become "available" to iTunes soon as I'd like to be able to sync albums to my iPhone again.

false... :-( next day -> same problem! Now I really don't know what to do... :-( :-( :-((((

GermanPeter wrote:

false... :-( next day -> same problem! Now I really don't know what to do... :-( :-( :-((((

Did you try and uncheck and recheck sync with iphotos?

öh.. "uncheck and recheck"? What do you mean? I tried it several times ;-) , I killed the prefs, started again...., tried a repair of the photos library...tried it by relocating to my safe-copy of the photo library and back... last information ist: it was working again. But I am really unsure it next time it won't... :-(

...and so it happened :-( - its not working. The problem to be continued....

I posted the steps above, but basically uncheck sync photos with iPhoto in iTunes with your phone attached. Then recheck sync with iPhoto and give the sync a try.

Well, I was going nuts, but your process helped. Thanx!