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Favorites on iPhone do not sync to Mac??

It seem that if you favorite photos on your camera roll, when you sync them to your Mac the favorites tag is lost and you have to re-favorite them again? This seems odd, am I missing something?



iPhone 7

Posted on Jul 25, 2019 11:07 AM

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Posted on Jul 25, 2019 11:17 AM

How are you "syncing" the photos? If you do it though an iCloud Photo Library, things like keywords and favorites are supposed to sync. If you are syncing them by plugging in your iPhone and having the Photos app import the new photos (I assume this still works as I have not done it from an iPhone, only a USB device) then I don't believe that type of information is copied over with the photo files.

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Jul 25, 2019 11:17 AM in response to Rob Broadbent

How are you "syncing" the photos? If you do it though an iCloud Photo Library, things like keywords and favorites are supposed to sync. If you are syncing them by plugging in your iPhone and having the Photos app import the new photos (I assume this still works as I have not done it from an iPhone, only a USB device) then I don't believe that type of information is copied over with the photo files.

Jul 26, 2019 11:08 AM in response to swandy

To get a perfect sync with all edits and metadata tags then I don't believe that type of information is copied over with the photo files.

You are perfectly right, swandy. When you download using a USB connection, the unmodified originals will be downloaded from the iPhone. The same applies to photos transferred by My Photo Stream.


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