Photos not going to photo stream IOS 15.4

rainbowcat5 wrote:

I've notice the update only partially fixed the problem. Even with high efficiency turned off, Photo Stream only works sometimes.

Same here. No rhyme or reason. I went out on a walk and took a few photos; some went to Photostream and some didn’t.

Oh…and I couldn’t post this via Safari for iPad. It kept prompting me to sign in, even after I had presumably signed in multiple times. Then it wouldn’t accept my reply. I switched to Brave browser and it worked the first time. Nice job, Apple!

I agree. Since I updated, some photos have moved to photo stream, some have not.

I use photo stream to automatically store my photos on my Mac mini. I can’t trust they’ll be there now. It’s very confusing.

Remember that the pictures going up and back to your Mac mini are reduced quality. All my 12mp heif pictures from my iPhone 13 end up just 3mp jpgs on my Mac. That’s fine if you never plan to edit, crop, or print large size pictures.

I have had no issues with photo stream on 15.5.

I’m not sure about the others in this thread, but for myself and MANY other people, Photo Stream has been flaky for a couple of YEARS before this particular issue even popped up. Even when it was “working” it was only half working. It had to constantly be switched off and back on on both the iDevice and the Mac it was uploading to and sometimes even a sign out and back in of the AppleID.

I just used this latest issue as the final reason to just connect my iPhone to my Mac once in a while and import ALL my pictures AND VIDEOS all at once, all in their native format and high resolution. Faster, easier, and more reliable and complete.

I know my way won’t be better for everyone - when Photo Stream works it can be a really sweet transfer/sync method - but Apple is basically letting it deteriorate, and I personally am tired of dealing with it.

Wengro wrote:

I’m not sure about the others in this thread, but for myself and MANY other people, Photo Stream has been flaky for a couple of YEARS before this particular issue even popped up. Even when it was “working” it was only half working. It had to constantly be switched off and back on on both the iDevice and the Mac it was uploading to and sometimes even a sign out and back in of the AppleID.

+1

It seems to be on its way out, but until Apple formally discontinues it, it should work. Wasted a lot of time on the phone with Apple about this before 15.5, only to have the Senior Advisor say it was a known issue.

In past years, toggling PhotoStream off and back on again on the devices running the desktop OS was sometimes enough to resolve the issue - but not always.

Robert Karty wrote:

It seems to be on its way out, but until Apple formally discontinues it, it should work. Wasted a lot of time on the phone with Apple about this before 15.5, only to have the Senior Advisor say it was a known issue.

In past years, toggling PhotoStream off and back on again on the devices running the desktop OS was sometimes enough to resolve the issue - but not always.

Completely agree with everything you said there, but especially the first sentence. Should have included that in my previous post.

If they aren't going to officially axe it, it absolutely should work as intended. I too have wasted a lot of time on the phone with Apple, and here in the forums, trying to troubleshoot it.

I have the same problem. Since the iOS update to 15.4, my iPhone photos don't go to my photo stream.

Why are the photos not streaming with 15.4 when they were on 15.3......I do not like using iCloud to store things.......I manually back up to my iMac.

Please let us know, what Apple Support tells you.

It works perfectly on my old iphone 5 and my wife's iphone 13, but not on the 11. The other 2 transfer them as square with no problems. Icloud photo library is off.

This worked for me. They're now showing up on photostream on my phone.

setting camera format from High Efficiency to Most Compatible works great for me. Problem solved

Thanks, that worked for me!

This worked for me as well. Thank you

Thank you. Your solution works for me!