Often an iPhone or iPad synced to Aperture results in a confusing jumble of photos that aren’t in any sensible order on your iDevice. This is a workaround found by one of our readers, gfsymon, that may work for you.

1. Disable syncing in iTunes and then sync your iPhone. You now have no images at all on your iPhone.
2. Open Aperture and make a new project called iPhone
3. Create a new Album in this project, for each Album you want on your iPhone. Here’s the important bit … make them in the order you want them to appear on your Phone.
4. Drag the images you want on your iPhone (from other projects) into the relevant Albums
5. Quit Aperture to make sure it’s not doing anything in the background
6. Open iTunes and in the Photos tab, select manual sync and then select the checkboxes of the Albums you’ve just created
7. Sync your iPhone
8. Be happy

Another solution is to not use Aperture at all, but instead to export photos to a folder which is synced to your iDevice. If you manage multiple libraries, this is the simplest way to go.