Why Is My iCloud Syncing Always Paused?

When I go to look at, for example, some of my photos on my iPhone or MacBook I always see a message saying that iCloud Syncing has been paused and I get an option to restart it for an hour. Why is this happening? My phone has a stable 5G connection and my Macbook is on my 1GB wifi at home, so I don't understand why syncing is suddenly paused as if there is poor network or battery. Is there a way to turn that off so I don't have to manually sync every time I want to see something across my devices? It was never like this prior to iOS17 from what I can remember. It's very annoying.