Swift fails to fetch Photo Albums Synced using Windows iTunes from External Drive

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Despite numerous attempts, I have been unable to determine the correct syntax to fetch photo albums from my iPad Pro 13.0 using Xcode and Swift.

All the photo album were synced to the iPad Pro 13-inch using the latest versions of Apple iTunes for Windows from an external Western Digital G-Drive hard drive (No iCloud). All synced albums appear under "From My Mac" on the iPad. I only want to access each album's photo and video count.

See sample code snippet below. I have tried multiple subtype options and album types without success. Zero albums are always returned despite having around 3900 albums in the iPad Pro 13.0 photo library. Authorization to the photo library does not appear to be the problem.

PHPhotoLibrary.requestAuthorization { status in if status == .authorized { let result = PHAssetCollection.fetchAssetCollections(with: .album, subtype: .any, options: nil)

if result.count == 0 {
    print("No albums found.")
    return
}
}

}

Any help or suggestions would greatly be appreciated.

ApplePhoto

Configuration Details

iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) (iPad16,6) iPadOS = 17.7 iCloud = Turned Off iPad Pro Photo Library Albums = 3900 iPad Pro Photo Library Photos = 118000 iPad Pro Photo Library Videos = 4800

MacOS = Sonoma 14.6.1 XCode Version = 16.0 Swift Version = 5.0 (Xcode Default)

Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Version = 22H2 Apple iTunes for Windows = 12.13.4.4

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