Albums in Photos not showing up on iPhone

I am using iOS 11 on my iPad mini 4. I have had inconsistent luck with syncing photos. When I synced my latest album, it didn’t show, but did when I searched it. I moved the album in my Mac Photos to be with the other albums that did display. This time the album showed. I tried synching another album that was on my Mac near the “display” albums, but it didn’t display unless I searched for it. I unchecked that album, synced my Photos. Then I checked that album and synced again. This time the album showed. Like I said inconsistent.

You could try unchecking your “Family” album, syncing, and then checking it again and resynching. It might work.

Thank-You! I created a new album in photos on my iPhone with nothing in it. I then searched for the album that was not showing up after a sync in iTunes. When it appeared I selected all the photos and was then able to add them to the empty album I had created.

Thanks Jay Ducharme. I had found that the albums still existed if I access the photos on my iPhone via Instagram, but was frustrated that I couldn't see them directly through Photos. Glad to find out that just doing a simple search reveals them. But... I wish Apple would just make it as it used to be so the Albums are just there without having to look for them.

I have the same problem. I created folders in sync image pages. None of these pages appears in Iphone. The funny part, when I open the app "Photo Cast", to cast pictures in Chrome Cast, all folders synced appears there as folders like the folder in computer.

In the past, Apple put all folders in the end of first page of Photos app. Like "synced with itunes folders", and all folders where there, impossible to edit.

But now no. No folders more. only the pictures appears and its hard to find among thousands os pictures.

Go To IPHONE Settings - Photos - Summarise Photos - Just Click on the Tab for 2 or 3 times - Your Problem Should be Solved

I've had the same issue. I sync iTunes to my Pictures folder; my Photos library is on another drive, and I keep only certain pics I want in Pictures so that my iPhone isn't cluttered. In past versions of iOS, the folders would be organized into Albums on my iPhone. But now apparently Albums are hidden; they're still there, though. The only way I've found to access them is through the search field in Photos. If I type the name of the Album (i.e,, "Family"), then that Album indeed shows up. So it could be your synced photos and folder structures are really there; you just can't see them. I have no idea why Apple made this change. But with the upcoming iOS 11 and the new Files tool, it might change again.

Aaaaaack! wrote:

So, I can't have my nice album structure from Photos on my Mac appear the same way in Photos on my iPhone?

It will depend on your album structure. iTunes will not reproduce nested folders of albums, but you can sync albums, if they are at the top level of the library. I am using iTunes sync for my albums all the time.

See: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201313

1. Click the box next to "Sync Photos." If instead you see "iCloud Photos is On," all of your photos and videos are already on all of your devices that use iCloud Photo Library. You don't need to sync them through iTunes.
2. Choose the app or folder that you want to sync from.
   If you choose to sync a folder with sub-folders, the first level of sub-folders will appear as albums on your device.

I tried for over 3 hours to do what you are saying you want to do and I agree. Also when you download photos from iCloud it changes the date info from the date taken, to the date downloaded! Not very good tutorials out there, so stuck in this dilema like you. I also can't find out if photos in the photo app are permanent or not. Apple has horrible support articles and rely on ppl like Larry who are quite defensive but don't help, Someone needs to make a step by step tutorial for us on this new app and iCloud crap. :I

I have an iphone X. Photo syncing to my albums worked the first few times and then 11.2.2 came out and all the sudden it syncs, but the new photos don't show up in the albums. I find it ridiculous we spend over a thousand dollars for a phone with over 200g and I can't sync my photos to my phone. There's zero reason this should happen and Apple should fix this issue ASAP. I'm over it. At first I just thought it was my previous phone, because when I got the new one it worked, until the update. Whatever the problem is it supposed to be a simple feature that I shouldn't have to spend hours trying to get new pictures to sync. Funny how years ago it worked no problem, and now while I have face recognition, which is cool, but pointless, i can't get my pictures to sync. Regression if you ask me.

This helped but this is really a bug, this has been happening for a while now, I was able to do as you explained, but the album is still not appearing as it should, in any case thanks for the workaround.

Gustavo

I am experiencing the same problem. I have the latest OS High Sierra on my MAC and just purchased the new iPhone 10 (and just downloaded the latest IOS version to my iPhone 10 which came out on April 24, 2018). So everything is up to date. However, when SYNC'g from Photos to iPhone using iTunes, I too see the selected Albums showing in the iPhone upon completion, however the number of photos in a given album that now appear on the iPhone are "equal to" or "less than" the amount of photos which are in the respective album on the MAC. Maddening indeed. I was on the phone with several Apple Support persons over the past 2 days. No clear answer or explanation was given as to why I am experiencing this. The Apple Support person helped me create a data file for Apple Engineers to evaluate. I was told it will take 3-4 days for them to evaluate and get back to me. Based on reading previous threads here, I am not feeling confident they will provide a solution.