When I got home iCloud Photo Library sync’d itself automatically over wifi between iPhone and Mac with no duplicates. I showed earlier photos already on my iPhone 6+ to people while on holiday, and I also took new photos on the iPhone 6+ while on holiday. I have just come back from holiday with family and I did much as you. I assume not or you would not have needed to connect your phone to your computer when you got back. I thought Photos for OS X was designed to eliminate duplicates, therefore, shouldn’t Photos have seen these were already in my Photos library and not flagged them for import? Was the keyword and description differences enough to make them look ‘different’ so Photos would want to import them? If thats the case and the process of downloading the photo into a mobile device thereby stripping some meta data, I will always have to deal with these older downloaded photos? What a pain.Īre you using iCloud Photo Library on phone and computer? Somehow when the photo was downloaded to the iPhone, it must have stripped the keyword and description. The only differences were in the “Get Info” area of the Photos version, the description had the word duplicate(37954) and a keyword of iPhoto Original.
I compared the old photo in Photos and old one that wanted to be imported again and the file name, dates are the same.
Now I have to remove these and I’m worried that in the future Photos will do the same and unless I am diligent, Photos will make a mess of my library. These old photos already exist in Photos, no edits were done to them while on the phone. I also took pictures while on this trip with the iPhone 6+… When I got home, I connected my iPhone to the computer and Photos wanted to import the new and old photos. I recently made a trip and during this trip, I opened photos from different years of our family to show to our friends… I was showing these photos to my friends on the iPhone 6+. Photos for OS X is set to keep the originals.