Photos on Mac (MBP 2011, MacOS 10.13.3) is importing both original as well as edited copies of photos from iPhone (6 and X, iOS 11.2.5). This was not a problem for last 3 years but is persistent since September/October. I want only one copy of photos on my iPhone to be imported - edited or original, whichever is on my iPhone too. Any advise would be appreciated! Thanks.
iPhone X, iOS 11.2.5, null
Your system versions do not match. With an iPhone running iOS 11 you should be running High Sierra on the Mac. The problem is, that Sierra does not support the effects created by the camera or Photos.app on an iOS 11 device. Since Photos 2.0 on Sierra cannot recreate the edits applied by a camera on iOS 11 it has to send two photos, one with the effects and one without. if you upgrade to High Sierra with Photos 3.0 the two Photos versions should be compatible again.
If you are importing photos using a USB connection, Photos will import all photos that have been saved to the camera roll. Are you using a photo editing extension to edit the photos? That will save new photos to the camera roll.
You will also see duplicates you used filters, that are no longer supported im MacOS 10.13 High Sierra. The old filters will result in additional versions.
This worked. I had updated my MBP to High Sierra a couple weeks ago and made the first sync today and voila - the photos dont duplicate anymore. Thanks, Leonie!
P.S. My old photos still have duplicates, the ones from pre iOS11 generation. Can I fix that on Photos 3.0?
You will have to delete the duplicates manually, because they have been imported as second original, so they will not show, when you search for "Photo is edited" in a smart album.
The edited versions should be showing an "E" appended to the image number in the filename, if I remember correctly. Perhaps you could search with a smart album (File > New Smart album")with the rule "match all:" "Filename includes E." and "Camera Model is iPhone 6"
Edit: I checked the software installation history and turns out I had updated to MacOS Sierra (10.12.6) on 26/09/2017 and I have been noticing the duplicates since almost then. However I could not find any Photos related update in the update note. (
How exactly are you importing? If you use iCloud Photo Library and sync that will not happen - depending on exactly you are doing it may be normal or may be a problem of somesort
LN
I am using the USB to sync my photos. I do not use any third party editing tool and use only the Apple Photos editing capabilities on my iPhone.
I just checked the old photos on my MacBook - every photo Ive ever imported from my iPhone is now split into original and edited. It is probably some setting on MacBook level that is causing the issue, however I have made changes to none.
Photos is part of the OS and therefore each OS upgrade also upgrades Photos
LN
Thank you again! Will try this now.
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Photos importing both original as well as edited photos.
