I have gotten several questions and many searches to my blog by people that wanted to know how to add photos to their new iPod Touch. I have decided to put together a simple guide for those who haven’t figured out how to do this.
The steps are listed in order below.
1. Open up iTunes and plug in your white syncing cable.
2. When you see the above window pop up click on the Photos tab.
3. Select the folder that your pictures are located in. Once the proper folder is selected iTunes will give you the option of selecting all of your photos or you can pick selected folders and pick only what you want to add.
4. Once you are satisfied with your selection click the sync button. iTunes will optimize your photos for your iPod Touch and then copy them. Be patient, it will take several minutes this task, especially if a large amount of photos has been selected.
5. Once the sync is done you can check to confirm that the photos were copied over.
You should now see the addition of Photos in your Capacity bar.
6. It is now safe to eject your iPod Touch and check out your photos!
September 28, 2007 at 8:27 pm |
Nice to see someone put this together. I’m sure this will help many people.
September 28, 2007 at 9:09 pm |
Thank you for this
September 28, 2007 at 9:42 pm |
It’s the same way as adding photos to any iPod isn’t it?
September 28, 2007 at 9:54 pm |
It is the same, but a lot of first time owners who bought the touch have been trying to figure out how to do it.
Figured I would lend a hand!
September 29, 2007 at 4:54 pm |
cool tutorial , though it’s possible to check your Ipod to make sure the photos transfered while it’s still plugged in , you don’t need to eject it if it’s a touch
September 29, 2007 at 6:25 pm |
I agree, cool easy step by step walkthrough
October 1, 2007 at 5:52 pm |
While I admire your willingness to help, I think you’re missing the point. People aren’t asking how to add photos to their Touch because they’re morons who can’t find the “Photos” tab. They’re asking because iTunes throws up an error about 99% of the time upon hitting the Sync button. For example, every time I try and Sync my photos tab, I get an error that says “File was not copied because it can’t be viewed on your iPod”. The funny thing is that this error is totally arbitrary. You can have two .jpgs of exactly the same image, in the exact same format, with the only difference being the name, and iTunes will sync one, but not the other. I’ve only been able to get it to sync maybe TWO photos out of the dozens I’ve tried.
October 2, 2007 at 6:55 pm |
That’s weird, what file extension are your pics Maven?
I think these guide is good for new iPod users who just want to know how to add photos. For problems like your you may want to call Apple support?
October 3, 2007 at 5:07 am |
Half my pictures throw an error, there seems to be no rhyme nor reason to which work and which don’t. And many end up completely distorted, although between syncs some may undistort and others may become distorted.
Basically, the photos isn’t working at all correctly…
October 6, 2007 at 7:17 pm |
How can I add photos at full resolution without iTunes optimising them?
October 8, 2007 at 4:31 pm |
Just last night, I tried to load .jpgs onto my touch and had the same problem. The 1 of 30 it said it could use was digitally scrambled. I went to the web site and downloaded the instructions PDF. In the photo section, it said something about MAC only for loading pics. Has anyone else seen this?
October 8, 2007 at 7:46 pm |
It said only macs could put photos on the iPod Touch?
October 8, 2007 at 7:47 pm |
Biddy, I don’t think you can do that. The reason iTunes optimizes the photos is so they look the best on the touch. Is there some reason you don’t want ti optimizing? Is it messing up your photos?
October 9, 2007 at 2:57 am |
Not so much messing them up, however when you zoom in on a photo on the Touch, you are zooming in on a low res image and you lose the fine detail.
September 15, 2009 at 5:44 am |
You can add photos at full resolution directly to the DCIM folder on the itouch. You if you dont make thumbnails a blank on will appear but the photo will be fine. I put in a few 10meg pics, but it takes a while for each picture to appear, about 10 secs. initially.
October 9, 2007 at 11:07 am |
Biddy, when it optimizes them it makes them smaller?
Maybe they just do it to conserve space on the touch?
October 10, 2007 at 8:46 am |
Did itunes optimize the photos for the older iPods such as the 5G? I don’t remember ever seeing it doing that, but maybe I missed it.
October 23, 2007 at 3:13 pm |
thank you very much
It has solved my problem in minutes..
October 25, 2007 at 3:18 pm |
hi, i have problems syncing photos to my ipod touch, they apear on my ipod with lines and points, the photos are bad, and in my computer i have like 400 photos, and itunes just sync like 50 and itunes show that some photos cannot be sync because they cannot be seen in ipod touch, please help me, what can i do
June 27, 2009 at 12:30 pm |
I just got a fix by calling apple while I was in midst of a sync. Select a file for snyc which
include no pictures and sync. That does some kind of reset. The select the file including
your photos, resynd and voila. . . perfect! Apparently two successive sync’s to the same file
causes the second one to think that those pictures are already on the Touch and so it does
nothing. You have to do a fake sync to make the Touch think that the sync is bringing in
different images. Anyway it worked perfectly for me.
October 25, 2007 at 6:39 pm |
Alwin, what is the file extension on the end of them? Is it jpg?
October 30, 2007 at 8:16 pm |
I assume that you use NTFS. It seems that Itunes can sync only from FAT16 or FAT32 without giving errors. Try to sync from a drive with FAT, like a flash drive and voila!
November 4, 2007 at 6:24 pm |
hi, I am having similiar difficulties with the pictures on the iTouch. The pictures will not properly display or upload to the iTouch.
Example: Tonight I uploaded 89 photos, out of all 89 photos only 11 pictures showed up on the iTouch and only 5 pictures are viewable the others have lines and distortions in them with different colors shooting through. I am getting an error message saying iTouch can not show some pictures as they will not properly display on the iPod.
I am unsure if this is a lemon iTouch or if there is a program I am suppose to use. I read all the instructions and sync the pictures correctly. I read that if you are using Windows to use the Adobe Photo Elements so I downloaded the trial version to see if this would fix the issue and if so I would purchase the Adobe software for the pictures but all the same problems are happening.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you for your time and help.
June 2, 2009 at 12:41 pm |
I wondered if this has been answered? I am having the same problem. When I first got my Ipod Touch photos were being synched and displayed with no problems but it seems following an update (can’t remember if it was an iTunes or Touch update) I now get this problem. Hardly any of my photos sync and many of those that do are distorted. I haven’t changed anything about how I store my photos on my PC (I use Adobe Photoshop album) so the only thing that has changed is the Apple updates. Any ideas?
June 27, 2009 at 7:15 am
I, too, am having this problem. I’d downloaded a slew (700) photos successfully but then realized that I had to get them into files so I could selectively look at them. I spend a few
hours doing that, and then resynched them all only to find that after about 50, one picture
was half-composed, half-garbage. When I called Apple, I was told to retry it but now that
I hear about so many others having the problem, I’m not very assured. I can’t immediately try to re-snych, because I had to uninstall iTunes and go back to the old version due to a bug
in the newest version that bombed iTunes when it tried to access Gracenote; thus no loading
could be done on my Nano. Now, since the Rel 3 of the OS is incompatible with the back
release, I can’t get iTunes to access the Touch. Solution, is load up my Nano, update
iTunes, and forget about putting anything on the Nano until the Gracenotes bug is fixed.
Meanwhile, I’ll update to the current release to use my Touch. Surely there must be a
better way but Apple knew of no way to keep two versions of iTunes on one PC. I’m
WXP, not apple and all my images are .jpg. Nothing tricky about them. . . some are
edited by Photoshop 7 and some are directly from my camera.
Any suggestions on how to escalate these seemingly high level problems to Apple?
November 5, 2007 at 3:57 pm |
Geri66, what is the extension on the pictures? I have a mac and I didn’t have any problems. Just plugged in my iPod and had iTunes copy them over to my iPod Touch. What is the average file size on each photo as well?
November 5, 2007 at 7:06 pm |
Hi, I’m having a slightly different problem to the rest, every time I sync a new set of photos, they delete the previous ones from my touch! Any ideas?
November 5, 2007 at 7:26 pm |
Are you using a mac or windows Paul?
December 1, 2007 at 9:34 pm |
Hey,
Thanks for the insight on how to add photos to my ipod touch.
You’re awesome. Have a safe holiday season!
aloha!
shaun
December 1, 2007 at 11:57 pm |
I’m a moron. Thanks for this tutorial, forgot the tabs….geh.
December 26, 2007 at 1:00 am |
k well i know how to do that but when i go to add them it says…”some of your photos including “001.jpd” were not copied to the ipod because they cannot be used.” i used my digital camera and they were pictures that were saved on my computer. any ideas???????? need help
December 27, 2007 at 12:13 am |
whenever i click the ipod icon in itunes it just brings me to a license agreement page which i agree to and save but still can never get past that screen…..could u help me out
December 28, 2007 at 4:41 pm |
yes! im having the same problems with the ipod saying the pics a re not viewable. i have a hp with vista on it, and my pic sizes are 1000 + kb because they are from my camera. the format obviousle is .jpg the most common one. so yea if there is some patch or some way to make the pics go into the ipod then i would love to recieve an email about it, also i would like to know if it is true thats only in the mac that the photo section works. because if it is im returning this baby lol.
thanks happy new year
Machters
December 31, 2007 at 4:44 pm |
When I open Itunes abd click on my device THERE ARE NO TaBS AT ALL MUCH LESS A PHOTO TAB!!!!!
November 2, 2009 at 6:51 am |
I have the same problem..thougth i was just stupid..is there new version of i tunes available?
December 31, 2007 at 4:45 pm |
When I open Itunes and click on my device THERE ARE NO TABS AT ALL MUCH LESS A PHOTO TAB!!!!!
January 17, 2008 at 12:00 am |
god how can I be so blind and didn´t noticed the photo tab I was about to download Photoshop haha thanks mate!!!
January 20, 2008 at 1:42 am |
i dont know if its just me or every user of ipod touch has this problem. the thing about syncing the photos is that the current photo contents of the ipod gets deleted everytime you add new batch of photos. Is there a way to prevent this? I gets so depressing why does ipod designed that way?
January 26, 2008 at 3:33 pm |
so back to Luis’ question… when iTunes is opened and the iTouch shows in ‘devices’, those tabs are NOT showing up. Any advice? Is there something I’m not doing correctly or do I need to call the Apple folks (hang out on hold for the afternoon)? hoping someone can help me.
February 19, 2008 at 6:34 pm |
Hi Already worked out how to put photos on – made a new folder and just selected that one. However, now need to know how to remove them. Want a change! Is the only way to erase all contents and settings? Seems rather drastic!
March 8, 2008 at 9:50 am |
Same problem – no tabs showing up. No photo tab. I’ve gone into preferences and nothing is showing. Can anybody help?
March 16, 2008 at 8:44 pm |
For you having trouble syncing photos its because your names are to long (ex2) the file system MAC OS uses can only see normal characters and no symbols such as -. Where as NTFS can support the longer filenames and certain special characters. Also someone mentions it only working from FAT filesystems thats because FAT has the same restrictions that ex2 has NTFS is the newest and supports better labeling
March 18, 2008 at 8:21 pm |
OK, when I try to load pics or music I dont get the option of where I want to get the items from until I click a lil thing telling me I will lose all of the items alreayd on there first. I get that inbetween your step 2 and 3 … what do I do? I had a few songs and when I DL’d one from itunes it deleted the others I had! HELP this things is about to go to the trash compactor!
March 23, 2008 at 3:57 am |
Thanks for the infor on this site
March 25, 2008 at 10:51 pm |
same prob about syncing the photos. the current photo contents of the ipod gets deleted everytime you add new batch of photos.
Please someone answer why and how to solve.
Thanks,
March 27, 2008 at 8:41 am |
What about bypassing iTunes completely…using Vista, the moment I fire up iTunes I lose my DVD/CD drives and have to go into the registry and then reboot to get them back. I’m sure people are going to blame Windows, but until then, I just dont use iTunes. Is there a way to get photos to the iTouch without it? (BTW, I use MGTek to get music to the iPod and it works great)…
March 29, 2008 at 11:47 am |
If it was that easy I would have done it hours ago. My photo tab is grayed out. Only by pressing sync first, which then will delete all existing photos can I proceed. I have an ipod-touch which says the same for trying to add movies if i press syn it will delete all my tv shows songs and more. Do you know why? Apple site no help at all.
April 13, 2008 at 1:08 pm |
how do you set up where you can put videos upp and syn thm into the ipod touch
May 28, 2008 at 1:15 pm |
Wow,
You are such a retard. Everyone knows how to sink photos unless their handicapped. What they want to know is how to add photos without syncing, so they can get all their family and friends photos that they want. duh.
June 17, 2008 at 2:18 am |
I have a different problem with the photos. I have figured out how to upload multiple albums, but one and only one of the 8 albums uploaded had the pictures in a completely different order than what they are in my PC. It is a album that needs to be viewed in a specific order and on my PC-correct order, on my itouch- mixed up? Help!
July 4, 2008 at 8:45 pm |
this is very helpful. i didnt even know about that photos tab =)
July 8, 2008 at 2:50 am |
I am experiencing the same problem as Amber. I prepared a sepaerate folder containg those photos that I wanted to download to my iPod touch. I made sure that the photos in the new folder were in the order I wanted then in. The folder downloaded OK to the touch but the photos are completely jumbled up with no logic to the order. It’s a mess and makes a nonsense of any side show which moves from one subject to another. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
July 10, 2008 at 1:50 pm |
the problem i am having is that all of my photos are on my laptop, but my latop’s motherboard has broke, i have also just broken up with my partner, and want to delete some pictures but i dont want to loose all of the existing pictures i had on there as there is no longer a way of getting them back, so is there a way of deleting one or two pictures without sincing my ipod touch, also i need a way of adding more pictures without deleting the ones i already have
do you have any idea how i can do this?
July 11, 2008 at 3:31 pm |
I have found one way to get around the problem of itunes ignoring some photos or movies when adding to itunes library or when synching. Now every photo is synched without displaying any artifacts or distortion. Every movie is accepted. I have iPod classic and Windows XP. In itunes I enabled disk use for my iPod. In My Computer I create directory on iPod hard drive and copy all my photos to that directory . Then I add those photos to itunes library not from my PC directory but from the newly created iPod directory, then sync. Works every time. I do the same for movies because itunes doesn’t accept them from my PC directory either.
July 15, 2008 at 8:54 am |
I just found out a pretty nice program that actually transfers your iPod pics from and to the computer. And it works with the iPhone too!
Have a look at it. It’s worth it: http://www.copytrans.net/copytransphoto.php
July 17, 2008 at 11:49 am |
Mike: In order to have your photos on the Touch display in the order you prefer, go to your folder(s) containing the photos, and then put the following in front of the description for the first photo you want to see. For example, if you want to see “David.jpg” first, rename the photo “AAADavid.jpg”. If you want to see “Alice.jpg” next, rename the photo “AADAlice”. The Ipod Touch sorts the photos alphabetically. If you didn’t put the letters in front of the photo names, the Touch would display “Alice.jpg” first, and then “David.jpg” second, etc. The reason why I use three letters preceeding the photo name (AAA) is to make sure that I don’t run out of letters when I have 75 or 100 photos in each folder. The reason why I use AAA for my first photo, and AAD for my second, and AAG for my third is because in the event that I want to insert an additional photo at a later date (For example- Billy.jpg), and I want it to be displayed as the second photo between David and Alice, I would simply rename the photo “AACBilly”, and when I flipped through the pictures I would see David as photo 1, Billy as photo 2 and Alice as photo 3. What you are currently experiencing on your touch is the alphabetic sort which shows Alice first, Billy second and David 3rd — and no matter what order the photos are in your folder, the touch will still display them alphabetically. Please excuse the length of this post — I just wanted to be as clear as possible. Hope this helps!
July 28, 2008 at 6:57 am |
thnaks for the tutorial. it helpd me a lot
July 28, 2008 at 1:24 pm |
I cant see any tabs there.. i have clicked on devices and on the ipod logo.. but still no tabs show at the top. this aint so straight forward.
Hmmm.. Help..
July 29, 2008 at 9:40 pm |
How do I get the folders I created to show up in the list in iphoto? The folders listed for me to add are not the ones i created.
August 2, 2008 at 9:37 am |
y the heck is it that my ipod touch isnt showing the photos thingy at all? i know i didnt delete anythingg. help plz.
August 3, 2008 at 3:04 am |
You may have answered this already and so apologize if I have not looked closely enough at the other comments but is there anyway to get my pictures from Adobe elements 6 to my ipod touch?
Thanks for the tutorial. It answered the problem I was having in a very simple way and it was CLEAR.
Heather
August 4, 2008 at 2:21 pm |
Is there a way to add just individual photos from a folder instead of having to add ALL photos from a folder?
August 7, 2008 at 7:33 pm |
FINALLY! Someone explained how to sync photos in an easy to understand way. I searched and searched to find it. Apple’s site has nothing!
Thank you so m uch
August 13, 2008 at 9:19 pm |
on your itouch, where do you go to look @ the pictures?
August 15, 2008 at 1:22 pm |
@Bubba and others:
To save a single photo to your itouch or iphone, email the photo to yourself. Once you have open it, press and hold on the photo to then save it to your Saved Photos folder.
August 27, 2008 at 10:26 pm |
is it possible to use someone elses iTunes to place photos on your iTouch without altering the music you already have on your iTouch? or will the music from another persons iTunes replace your own when trying to add the photos?
September 1, 2008 at 12:58 am |
Hi!,
September 1, 2008 at 12:59 am |
Hello!,
September 5, 2008 at 5:39 am |
hey guys!
i’m havin similar problems with some other ipod touch users.
whenever i tried to put photos on my ipod,the same error comes up sayin that they cannot be displayed on my ipod.
i reloaded my itunes,recreated a folder etc and it just doesn’t work!!! they’re all jpeg.s
could you help me please!!!!
thanks
September 7, 2008 at 12:24 am |
Hey your site was really helpful thanks heaps
September 9, 2008 at 12:30 am |
you have a lot of cruise pictures.
September 14, 2008 at 2:34 am |
Many thanks for this simple instructions on how to add photos in an Ipod. I’ve tried adding JPG’s, BMP’s and GIF’s as well and they all looked nice to see on randomly showing while i’m listening to music.
But how about for those who don’t have an iTunes on their PC’s? Is there any possible to do that?
Anyways, thank you very much for the help!
Peace out!
September 17, 2008 at 7:59 am |
Hey. So I was just wandering, how do you get your ipod to save the order of your photos?
Like i’ve figured out how to upload photos, that’s all good, but once i’ve uploaded them on my ipod they’re in a different order from what they were in in the folder on my computer.
Help?
September 20, 2008 at 2:14 pm |
Got a new itouch (20/09/2008) working with itune 8. Cant put pics on my itouch. Working with a pc with xp. There isn’t a photo tab. Can you help
September 23, 2008 at 3:11 pm |
hey guys… i appreciate all the help you’re all trying to give, but i still don’t see any options for my ipod touch. no photo tab in itunes, no sync options… the only thing i’ve been able to do is drag songs to my ipod tab to sync them… i have some photos i’d like to sync, but i don’t know how…
i have itunes 8 on windows vista. any help? thank you!
October 9, 2008 at 9:32 pm |
hey evryone i was wondring..like for ipod ttouch i uploaded songs and photos and evrything……and i forgot the applications…..so i plug it in to my computer and i just selected the application so that would delete my music and videos and evrything…..so evry time i want to put in a new file i have to sync evrything that i want on my ipod touch…please reply at jay_rock_11@hotmail.com
like so let say u download another song frmo itune and you want to add it do you have to sync all the existing files on it tooo…..?
October 10, 2008 at 1:34 pm |
photo icon doesn`t appear on ipod screen
October 12, 2008 at 4:47 am |
thankyou so much, you made it very straight forward.
i have been trying to do this for years
October 19, 2008 at 1:04 pm |
I do not have a photos tab under preferences, any help?
Thanks
October 24, 2008 at 7:20 pm |
Thanks, Just the info I needed!
October 31, 2008 at 11:49 am |
I get errors when I try to drag and drop photos to iTunes, but when I sync them, no errors occur.
Thanks
November 2, 2008 at 11:51 am |
I kn0w how to do this. My problem is more than one album. I have figured out how to do it but itunes will not give me the option of the albums I want.
November 8, 2008 at 9:38 am |
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November 8, 2008 at 12:02 pm |
THx dude that was so simple!! thx a lot!
November 9, 2008 at 9:49 pm |
thanks!!!!!
November 14, 2008 at 12:23 am |
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November 21, 2008 at 11:23 am |
Hello, I am having trouble as I see others are too.
whenI add new photos the previous ones dissapear how can i remedy this? thanks for
any help on this problem ,can not find help any where.
November 21, 2008 at 2:22 pm |
For the people that doesn’t see the photo tab on itunes. I have a pc and windows vista itunes 8. I tried and I looked everywhere no answers if someone know what to do please post a comnent, I was able to transfer photos but on my friends Mac.
November 23, 2008 at 9:40 pm |
OMG THIS REALLY WORKS THANK U
November 25, 2008 at 6:33 pm |
Thanks a bunch. It helped me alot.
November 28, 2008 at 3:54 am |
Nobody ansvered
Why are older pictures deleted after sinc.
If I want to add only one picture all pictures in iPod touch will be deleted and there will be only that one picture.
November 29, 2008 at 7:13 am |
I anyone is having trouble adding pictures to the ipod make shu youre ipod supports pix! I know the ipod classic supports it, i’m using ipod touch, and if there is still no photo button (or its greyed out) try out syncing them with a mac and if that works you may consider buying an old cheap mac on ebay / amazon or on apple.com.
December 3, 2008 at 5:58 pm |
this is understood.
But is there any way of adding only the selected pics from a folder to iPod.
also is there any way of creating folders on iPod so that different pics can be accumulated in different folders.
would be glad if u mail me your response.
Thank you
December 4, 2008 at 12:51 am |
For all having trouble finding the tab,
you have to click on your ipod picture in the side, then if the mobile me thing pops up scroll to the bottom and say no thanks then you can see the tabs.
hope this helps
December 9, 2008 at 2:50 pm |
Anyone know how to add photos to an I Touch without using itunes on the home computer? The photos are not drm and shouldn’t be “protected” the way music is.
ED
December 10, 2008 at 12:08 am |
so im fine with all the pics and music and stuff but i cant get to my apps…the tab is grayed out…idk how to get it to work
can anyone help?
thank you
December 14, 2008 at 10:46 pm |
Hey,
The update on how to add photos is very helpful, thanks.
Now I’m curious, how do I see what the contents of “Other” sync category are?
Thanks!
December 17, 2008 at 6:10 am |
you can only synchronize your ipod touch to itunes, but how to add new photos to existing photos on your ipod?
December 20, 2008 at 9:03 am |
thank you I actually used the touch to figure it out.
December 21, 2008 at 11:08 pm |
Had the same problem with synching photos. What worked for me is to copy the pictures I wanted to transfer to an SD card (a digital camera memory card) for which I have a slot in my laptop. Then to tell iTunes to copy pictures from the SD card (not the laptop’s hard disk). Hope this helps
December 23, 2008 at 6:28 pm |
thanks
). Merry Xmas 
it seemed really obv when i worked out how to do it haha. and i remember looking at that yesterday as well
am well chuffed with my iPod touch, my boyfriend got it me for xmas and i’m so in love with it (and him
thanks again for your help
December 29, 2008 at 11:12 pm |
My question is not on HOW TO SYNC PHOTOS INTO MY IPOD? BUT…… HOW TO KEEP ADDING PICTURES AFTER HAVING INITIALLY SYNC PHOTOS WITHOUT HAVING UR IPOD ERASE THE PREVIOS ONES?
January 1, 2009 at 7:18 pm |
I have the problem as Deny, all my pics are removed when I add new ones! Dumb, dumb dumb. It there any way to prevent this?!?!?
January 4, 2009 at 12:22 pm |
Im having problems adding photos to my i pod touch.
Every time i press sync it says The I pod “Sarah’s I Pod” cannot be synced. The required file cannot be found.
Is there any way to fix this?
May 17, 2009 at 10:00 am |
I have the same problem did you get it fixed and how. Thanks maurice
January 5, 2009 at 1:59 am |
thank u so much for this!!! really helped
January 9, 2009 at 6:27 pm |
Thank you so much for putting this together. As an older “non techno savy adult” I had no clue how to put the photos in. A Big Thanks!!
January 10, 2009 at 12:55 pm |
My problem is i can’t find the photo tab. Could you help me PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 12, 2009 at 12:33 pm |
heeey
i was just wondering if this question is answerable or not:
I have already uploaded photos onto my ipod, and then when i went to upload more, a day later, and on a different computer it says it will delete my previous photos,…is there anyway around that?
I know some other people have been having problems with this as well, as i have read.
Thank you very much!
May 29, 2009 at 3:58 pm |
I am looking for an answer to the same question.
I am not technically challenged. I have had other MP3 players and know how to move files and music and pictures around, and I’ve even figured out how to do the basic “sync” on my ipod- BUT- how do I add just one file/picture/song anything from say, a friend’s computer WITHOUT it deleting everything that’s there?
I have looked at numerous tutorials, I’ve clicked help buttons- I can’t find my answer. This is just one of many sites I’m searching at….
January 14, 2009 at 8:43 pm |
I can’t seem to be able to put more than one folder of my photos, or select individual photos to sync with my ipod touch. I can only select the which folder button. Please help
January 19, 2009 at 6:27 pm |
Thanks 4 this… Helps a lot!!!!
January 19, 2009 at 8:59 pm |
im trying to find out how i upload photos to my ipod touch. I have gone on photos, but it says sync photos from photo shop element, i don’t even have the program and i cant change it! help please!
January 19, 2009 at 8:59 pm |
im trying to find out how i upload photos to my ipod touch. I have gone on photos, but it says sync photos from photo shop element, i don’t even have the program and i cant change it! help please!
January 31, 2009 at 1:16 pm |
wow!!!!!!! thank you so much man!!!!!!
February 1, 2009 at 8:37 pm |
thanks!!!
February 2, 2009 at 8:54 pm |
Thanks very much for this. I didn’t know I had to go through the iPod screen. Would have taken me forever to figure this out on my own.
February 11, 2009 at 6:11 am |
I use copytrans photo. you should give it a try
http://www.copytrans.net/copytransphoto.php
February 13, 2009 at 3:28 pm |
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February 15, 2009 at 4:21 am |
I tried everthing to syn my photos to my ipod touch a window come up saying that proper file can not be located what’s wrong
February 17, 2009 at 9:59 am |
why has apple made this process complicated. it was a simple case of drag and drop before. after about 2 years of trying, i finally give up trying to sync photo’s to itouch.
February 19, 2009 at 6:30 am |
Hey “ME”,
You r a genious!I did what you said about the pop-up window and it worked out!Now, I can see the tabs!!!!!
Thanx a million!
February 24, 2009 at 9:07 pm |
the ipod options button doesn’t appear at the bottom right of the itunes screen, i can’t get to the photos tab…what’s going on?
March 9, 2009 at 12:58 am |
when ever i start to sync photos the whole itunes system crashes, every single time. any ideas
March 14, 2009 at 7:34 am |
I see others have posted by problem, but I don’t see any answers. I
want to upload a small album of photos to iPod Touch. If the iPod is connected and I’m in iTunes, I see the window with the tabs. I can see my iPhoto albums listed, but they’re in grey. The only active button is the one that would sync all my thousands of photos, which I don’t want to do. Why can’t I activate the button for a specific iPhoto album? thanks
March 17, 2009 at 11:08 am |
Anns, you need to tick the ;sync photos from’ box at the top and it then give you the options to choose your photos.
March 19, 2009 at 4:42 pm |
Ivee added pics in the past fine but on my brothers laptop when i try adding them it says it will delete all photos already on my ipod. why thats??
March 21, 2009 at 5:54 am |
Nice tutorial. I was getting confused when the drag/drop wasn’t working!
Cheers
March 22, 2009 at 11:01 pm |
omgg thanks soo muchh… i needed to add photos and quick and i had no idea and this really helped! thank!
March 26, 2009 at 6:20 pm |
many thanks , i couldnt get the photos i wanted , and you made it so simple. i.e. click on itunes before plugging in white wire
March 27, 2009 at 9:03 am |
I just bought an iPod touch 2G. I am using iTunes 8.
There IS no Photos tab.
March 28, 2009 at 2:55 am |
thank you , helped me out!
March 31, 2009 at 12:17 pm |
Please, can’t find the answer everyone is asking, Every time I download photos it deletes the previous photos that were downloaded. Help!!!!!!!!!!!
April 10, 2009 at 10:14 pm |
Has this been answered????
Please, can’t find the answer everyone is asking, Every time I download photos it deletes the previous photos that were downloaded. Help!!!!!!!!!!!
April 11, 2009 at 2:06 pm |
ty dis help me alot
April 11, 2009 at 9:09 pm |
thanks a million!
April 13, 2009 at 4:11 pm |
dis thing really help tyyyyyyy and your right man ppl be givin u comments
April 17, 2009 at 9:16 pm |
I don’t know if this is helpful but this is what I did. I had the same problem,everytime I was adding pictures the ones that were on the iPod were gone.
If you already have pics on your iPod that means you have the folder named iPod Photo Cache. Copy your photos in this folder,you can make different folders in it of course. Make sure that when you hit apply the folder from the pod will sync is iPod Photo Cache.
I know my English is not very good but I hope you’ll understand. Bye.
May 1, 2009 at 10:30 pm |
Thanks for the info!
May 27, 2009 at 1:45 am |
when i go to add photos on to my 3rd genreation ipod touch it just always says “optimizing photos to ellas ipod” the in says 1 out of 1440 photos. is that to many photos to be adding at once? but it will only ever say 1 out of …. never more than one. so i dont know if it is optimising properly. it is really annoying and if anyone knows how i can put my photos back on my ipod agian it would be muchly aprreciated =] plesase comment and help me
June 4, 2009 at 4:12 pm |
how do i create audio book stuff, can i use those photos for the pics in my albums?
June 4, 2009 at 5:37 pm |
yay this really works thank you so much
June 10, 2009 at 11:23 pm |
I have a 2nd gen. touch & try to avoid itunes as much as possible. To get a few pictures at a time onto your touch, you can do this:
Email the picture to yourself. When you have the picture open on the touch, tap and hold your finger on it, and you’ll get a “Save Image” dialog that lets you store the picture in the “Saved Photos” folder on the touch.
You can also do the tap and hold on any image in Safari, so if you have your pictures on the web (like in flickr) you can do the same thing.
June 14, 2009 at 11:42 pm |
thank you, dude.!
June 20, 2009 at 4:48 pm |
Thanks a lot. I am a novice on using these gadgets. spent hours before i finally got to your website to upload my pics. thanks a lot.
i have my ipod touch 2 gen. regret that i bought it at all.
June 22, 2009 at 4:34 am |
That iPhone 3G S really looks neat, just hope I can get a nice AT&T plan with it.
June 23, 2009 at 11:12 am |
[...] her a couple of the apps that I have on there. She instantly saw that the background picture was a photo of her and got all excited. So I spent the next hour in the doctor’s office going through [...]
June 24, 2009 at 2:16 am |
Hey everyone, I am the dork of all dorks. I also, had no photos tab, but I was looking for it under devices, on the left side of the screen. It’s at the top of the screen!
I clicked Bruce’s iPod and there it was.
I maintain my Dork status however.
June 24, 2009 at 11:50 am |
Thank you, I was going nuts trying to figure this out!
June 26, 2009 at 11:36 am |
i don’t have a “photos” tab anymore. i used to, but now it’s nowhere to be found. i’m pretty sure my brother accidentally deleted it, and won’t admit it. any suggestions on how to get it back?
June 26, 2009 at 11:37 am |
nvm! i found it! yay!
June 27, 2009 at 7:29 am |
omg. Thank you so much. I’ve been searching for the answer to this question and you and your well designed website have been the only one to correctly answer it.
June 27, 2009 at 1:39 pm |
Thanks … from a moron who didn’t realize she had to select “Photos”.
July 13, 2009 at 12:47 pm |
This really helped me…I keep thinking it’s only sync with adobe photoshop or iphoto… but now i know how to do it without that..thanks…
July 15, 2009 at 2:05 am |
@Bruce: Dude!!! I have been Googling and looking in Help for hours. Thank you!! I was looking for the Photos Tab under Devices as well, seemed like the obvious place to put it, but as they say in Arrested Development: “it wasn’t.”
July 16, 2009 at 11:26 am |
Thanks for all your help.
What is best sizing (ie pixel width/height & resolution to save jpegs for the iTouch?
July 24, 2009 at 10:37 pm |
thank you!!!
July 30, 2009 at 10:47 am |
Thanks a lot.
August 7, 2009 at 9:37 am |
As a Blackberry Curve owner and long time Microsoft user I have to say the itouch is truly a slick little device. However, look at all the posts asking how to do such basic things or how impossible they make it to import “didn’t pay Apple for” data. Oh, don’t get me started on itouch OS upgrade fees.
Problem is Apple’s hardware proprietary strategy, its laughable laptop prices will be its demise when it comes to increasing market share. Is it the inability of Apple’s developers or their marketing folks myopic view of reality that’s the problem?
The itouch only supports one photo library???
You can’t import existing MP3 files off another brand MP3 player???
Sure the itouch is really slick but Apple makes it impossible to use it to replace existing tools/toys. Bang bang bang….Is this mike on??
August 9, 2009 at 9:36 pm |
Thank you for the Guide To Adding/Syncing Photos to iTouch. I had been trying and was having trouble getting this.
Your site was a big help!
August 15, 2009 at 4:34 am |
Thank you for the helpful info. I still have a problem: I can’t see the names of the photos. I have lots of students pics and I’ve named the photos after the students in order to quickly find them back. Unfortunately the iPod touch doesn’t seem to display text info about the photos, which is a bit of a bummer. Do you know a workaround?
September 2, 2009 at 8:14 am |
Why don’t I have a PHOTOS tab!? This is frustrating!
September 20, 2009 at 1:32 pm |
Thanks, this add really helped me out.
October 12, 2009 at 1:22 pm |
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1678
October 13, 2009 at 8:43 am |
I always get the “Not enough free space” error.
I have 200mb left.
My photos are 10mb.
Whats up?
Using update 3.1.
October 18, 2009 at 2:15 pm |
Hi all.
I have a problem loading pics to my itouch. I see the button “Photos”, but the button ” sync photos from ” is grayed out. Can some one help please.
October 28, 2009 at 6:51 pm |
you kick ass i was able to chnage my background from that gay ass earth one
October 30, 2009 at 10:54 pm |
Fine tutorial with one problem… if you don’t get the synching options bar, then what…? I saw it once, the first time the unit was attached to the USB port and then never again. Convoluted and unnecessarily complicated.