The Apple Support Community will permanently close on November 20, 2026. Starting today, the site will no longer accept new posts and is available in a read-only state.

You can continue to find trusted guidance and support on the official Apple Support site.

We want to thank the community members who have contributed their time and expertise to help others with their Apple products.

ivanmoronta Author

Level 1

4 points

iCloud Photos could bot be turned on.

Hello there! I just upgraded my iCloud plan so I can backup my photos on iCloud Photo Library.

But, whenever I go to turn it on (I have it off) it prompts a message quoting "Photos Synced from iTunes will be removed. Syncing photos via iTunes is not supported when iCloud Photo is turned on" X amount of photos will be removed.

I'd agree and click "Remove Photos" however, right after that another prompt shows up "iCloud Photo could not be turned on, try again later". And it won't turn on....

I've tried logging out and back in from my iPhone, disabled photo sync with iTunes. On my Mac, I opened Photos and since I also turned on iCloud Library there, there's a loading bar in the botton of the library stating the amount of photos left to be uploaded to iCloud. I'm not sure if those are the photos from my iPhone or not. As on my iPhone I have around 3,000 photos and on my Mac it shows 2,200.

What can I do? Please help me!!

iPhone SE, iOS 12

Posted on Apr 7, 2019 8:46 PM

iCloud Photos could bot be turned on.

Similar questions