Photos keep seeing old pics as new, importing ad nauseum.

I have this exact same issue, it really *****. I also was just clicking on "Import all new photos" hoping they go away.

But they never do, and then later when I went back into my library where those photos are. I see that with every click of "Import all new photos", those photos were being duplicated on import into the library. For some photos I had 30 copies of the same photo! Super annoying. As such I now only selectively import the photos that are really new and try to ignore the falsely reported new photos, not ideal. At this point iPhoto is looking so much better of an app.

I've been having the same problem with Photos, ever since it was launched. I've looked for a solution, and this is the first post I've found. My devices are iPhone 6 with iOS 8.4.1 and Mac late-2012 running OS 10.10.5. I never had this problem with iPhoto. I like Photos in general, but this glitch bugs me every time I connect my iPhone to the Mac. If anyone has a solution, I'd be very grateful.

The workaround until a fix is found is to use Image Capture to download the photos you select to a folder on the Desktop. Once in the folder import into Photos.

Thank you, Old Toad. Much appreciated. I never thought of that, but I'll try it next time.

I've tried the Image Capture trick. It worked for a few days... but then different old photos started showing up as new again. It's odd—the photos in question are old, some not even taken with my iPhone, but scanned in years ago. I have iCloud Photo Library turned on, and the photos are already on all my devices. Yet they keep showing up every time I connect my iPhone to the iMac. This has been happening since the public beta of El Capitan and iOS 8.X as well as iOS 9.

I had this problem and it was around the same time the original poster had it. It was one photo that seemed to come up every time I plugged my phone in. I went to my Photos library on the Mac and saved the photo into a separate file on my hard drive (i.e., not Photos) then deleted it from Photos app on my Mac and iMac, my iPad, and my iPhone. Outside that one folder, I had that photo completely excised it from Apple's photo ecosystem and the issue went away. I went and manually added it back in and did not have another issue until just the past several weeks when another photo did the exact same thing.

It may work for you and I am going to try that method again, but I suppose if this is happening with a large group of old photos, that method would be tedious. If, like me, it is happening with just one photo from 2007, then it is a pretty easy process and it works for the time being.

This problem continues to plague me. Every time I completely remove the photos from my library and all devices, then reimport, they finally go away. Unfortunately, upon doing that, a whole new group of old photos show up as new every time I connect my iPhone.

This is clearly not a hardware problem with the iPhone, and I'm guessing it's not a problem with the Photos app — but I suspect it's an issue with iCloud Photo Library.

If you are using iCloud Photo Library then you should not also be importing from the same devices - that will cause duplicates - With ICPL all changes made on any device including additions, deletions and edits are made on all devices

LN

i have same issue. older 5c iPhone, but brand new Mac book pro(2015). i keep having to delete multiple duplicates from photos library. I'm also coming across many of the duplicates having names similar to:"Original image 464648494949.94949494u7598" the rest of the data looks about right, except i notice sometimes the time is off by 1hr from the actual original hour the image was taken. this occurs mostly with images taken via Hipstamatic, i notice. but, not all. some of the duplicates come from the iPhone as source, or an external camera (leica c). sometimes the duplicates are exactly the same, and sometimes the duplicates have the name stated above: "original image 98585959.9494736256" thing...

i also note: in the import window of Photos, when connecting my iPhone- i do not ever get to see the "action button"(described in some of the other Apple help pages). i don't get the window : "delete images from camera after imported?" (i do get this option when connecting and importing from my leica, just not the iPhone).

Have you found a solution yet?

How frustrating to see that you didn't get this resolved since may... I have the same issue with 133 photos... So you imagine the frustration

From what I can tell, the problem is with iCloud Photo Library and the Photos app. If you're using Cloud Library, some of the photos show up as new when you connect your phone to your Mac. The solution is simple, you have to just ignore them. And really, it's quite easy since all new photos are automatically imported/synced to your Mac anyway.

That being said, this is one heck of an annoying bug that's been around a long time.

Hi Ian

annoyingly I have the same issue, before having it I had my photos in separate albums saved on my hard drive that I then synced with iTunes on each device. I decided start of the year to move them all into photos on the Mac, I believed this would save time and allow me to edit the images and have the changes synced automatically. It was then I started to get the same issue as you, it seems the photos I view on the devices then show again as new! I had 12k photos now over months this is over 13k!! My iCloud storage is quickly filling up and now more duplicates that I can deal with, also, as they were all stored within folders in photos I have lost track of which are in the folders and which have been reimported.

I will make an appointment at a Genius Bar but until then I am having to not import photos which is frustrating as I have genuinely new photos getting lost within the imported ones

Same problem here, except in my case, it's well over 600 photos that keep getting imported over and over from my iPhone, and I have to go through and delete all the duplicates. Extremely annoying!

Just started happening this February 2016, when I fixed another problem with my iTunes account... Surely there is a fix? I'm on the latest revision for iOS & OS X...