How to sync photos in photos library to iphone?

Use Photos app instead of iPhoto.

I had the same issue. My photo library is on an external hard drive. Here's how I fixed it:*

1. Quit iTunes.

2. Open Photos. Got to Preferences and make sure you click the 'Use as system photo library' button.

3. Quit Photos.

4. Open iTunes - you should now be able to select 'Photos' as your source.

Hope this works for you!

* I sync the last years worth of photos but it seems a little buggy to me - lots of erroneous images and wrong date ordering. I guess they'll fix that eventually!

Thanks worked for me !

Sadly this didn't work for me. Still greyed out. When I open Itunes and click on "photos" for the iphone - all I get is a spinning circle and nothing comes up. Doesn't even show me the screen where I indicate which "events" (does it even do that anymore?) I want to download.

When I plug in my iphone to the computer Itunes automatically opens. I can't figure out how to stop that. I was able to upload photos from my phone into Photos (and wrestle with figuring out how to manage them...so difficult now). But I can't even get the photos to give me a choice of what to sync with the iphone.

Any ideas? Honestly - I think this started happening before Photos found it's way onto my computer...so not sure what the cause is.

I have an Imac and and Iphone 5. OS and IOS are current versions.

Anyone have any ideas? If not - any suggestions for something I can use to do all this without Apple's "help"?

So frustrating. Thanks for any ideas! Hate to think my iphone photos are frozen in time now.

Think I figured out how to keep Itunes from opening automatically. But still get nothing in Itunes to sync photos.

I uploaded my photos from Iphone to Itunes also...so now they are in both Iphoto and Photo.

I suppose you can call that progress. What am I missing?

Thanks.

(Would it be better if I started a new question for this?)

Try closing Photos and opening it while holding down the Option key. That will allow you to choose the library that you want to use.

Then open Photos and choose Preferences. That library should appear and you can then click the system photo library button.

Just worked for me.

Thanks, TDB - I think I have managed to get itunes to use my photos ap to sync photos to my iphone... no real idea how I did it tho. The thing that seems to have messed it up was Itunes just couldn't bring up that screen with choices of what photos to sync.

Finally that screen came up - which makes me think it was just loading all the photos or something before it would appear. When it did, there was a choice of which library to use at the top - Iphoto or Photos. I made that Photos. I tried once or twice without success, and kept trying different things before finally, as I type, it seems to loading the photos from Photos. Taking a long time - lots of photos. Hope the outcome is a success. Hope my phone battery lasts through it as I'm using wifi.

I came very close to just using iphoto - but sooner or later I suppose it will go away so figured I may as well dive in and figure this new thing out. I still don't like things about it - but will just have to get used to it....I hope to get to a point where I don't grumble every time I attempt to upload photos. 🙂

That's exactly what happened to me. The only option iTunes was giving me was my Pictures folder and not the Photos library. I would like to think that going through those steps now allowed me to choose Photos from the iTunes sync page, but I'm not really sure. Guess we'll both have to see how it goes in the future. Good luck!

Your solution worked perfectly for me. Thanks for your help!