doveyy04

Q: Some photos not uploading to icloud

OK so I decided to finally use iCloud, specially as I heard if you set to optimise on the photo options you can save storage space by only keeping lower resolution ones on your phone and the original photos on iCloud, perfect for my low memory iPhone. But for some reason photos from a certain folder from our summer holidays will not upload to iCloud!! It states on iCloud.com that the photos are uploading, the blue bar at the bottom moves along as normal but no photos appear on my phone, yet all other photos from other folders upload fine, but this set of photos never does.

 

I Have nearly 1gb of space left, and the photos in question are taken with the same iPhone as the other folders that do work, I've also tried uploading just a couple of photos at a time rather then the whole set, why won't they upload? They are same file format, similar size everything.

 

Also what percentage of space should i save using the optimise option as currently I'm hardly saving any by using this.

iPhone 5s, iOS 10.0.2

Posted on Sep 27, 2016 10:25 AM

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  • by ShagCA,

    ShagCA ShagCA Sep 27, 2016 10:53 AM in response to doveyy04
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    Sep 27, 2016 10:53 AM in response to doveyy04

    I have no answer why your photos won't upload. Perhaps they take a little longer to upload. What I do know is that while technically 'optimize storage' option sounds great, some users say they don't really free up that much space.

     

    The best way to gain more free storage space is to copy photos/videos to a computer and/or to third party (non Apple) cloud storage and remove them from the device.