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iCloud photo stream does not show all photos

I have 1000 photos is my photo stream, however on my Apple TV I just setup, I can only get 322 to show up in the iCloud Photo Stream. I've tried restoring and setting it up again, but I have the exact same numbers of photos.


Is there a reason I can only see 322 out of 1000 photos in my photo stream on the Apple TV?

Posted on Sep 26, 2013 12:58 PM

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Nov 10, 2013 1:16 AM in response to Nirvana98109

I am experiencing the same/similar issue. What is strange is my most recent photo on Apple TV is ~1 month ago. On Apple TV it says "Photos From Last Week" are 10/12 when the current date is 11/10. I called Apple support and they said the date issue could be related to my modem or router. My modem displays correct time and date and I bought a new Airport Extreme thinking my old Airport Express was the issue. No resolution. This must be a software upgrade glitch because photostream worked perfect on Apple TV before update.


APPLE PLEASE FIX BUG! Thanks! 🙂

Nov 10, 2013 5:10 AM in response to Nirvana98109

Glad I found this thread. It's been driving me nuts wondering what was going on. Same issues as above but I have less photos on photo stream. All photos show on imac, iPad, and iPhone but not ATV. I only have 238 pics on photo stream total but ATV is only showing 4 of them! It's like it only shows the last 30 days regardless of how many pics you have in photo stream. All was fine till I did an update.

Nov 11, 2013 6:17 AM in response to Nirvana98109

Ok dudes and gals ... i think i found a loophole ... somewhat annoying and not as accurate but at least im seeing more pictures ... so ... i went on my iphone 5 (7.0.3) and within my camera roll went to the "Shared" tab at the bottom and created a "New Shared Stream" then shared it with myself (own phone number) ... then went buck nasty picking almost all pictures in my camera roll ... clicked "done" ... then "share with icloud"


now within your apple tv's settings go to your screen saver settings and choose the shared album which you created ... depending on how many pictures you selected it might take a while ... since i selected over 1000 pics it took till the next day for me to see them on my screen saver.


it still likes to repeat the same images more than id like ... but at least there all getting showed


hope this helps some of you

Nov 29, 2013 8:39 AM in response to Alex Spencer

Alex, I was hoping this was a holiday miracle. Unfortunately, photostream (iCloud) is still not working even after updating to 6.0.2 and following your instructions above.


The same problems exist - photostream only loads about 340 photos of the 904 I have in the stream. iPhone, iPad and iPod all pick up 904. I even removed my pics from the photostream (again) and reloaded them from a backup. All other devices load up 904, Apple TV picks up 340.


Can you confirm that all of your photos are loaded on your Apple TV (and that you have more than 500 photos in your photostream). If you can truely see all of your photostream photos please again expain to us exactly how you did it step-by-step.


Anyone else get their photostream to work with Alex's suggestion?

Dec 24, 2013 8:14 AM in response to Nirvana98109

Nirvana, have you received a fix from Apple yet? I have been waiting for three months from two Level 2 Tier supervisors who have not been able to help.


According to CPELL at Apple dot com, the problem is an "emerging" one that is being addressed with the engineers. No one is allowed to actually talk to the engineers, so he has no other updates.


Have you found a fix?

Dec 31, 2013 8:25 AM in response to pedaltopia

No real fix yet, however if I go into settings and turn iCloud photostream and photosharing off and then back on, it downloads fresh Photostream photos.


It seemd to be working correctly for a while, then all of a sudden new photostream photos stopped appearing on Dec. 24th.


Also, I'm thinking the reason that Apple TV only shows a few hundred photostream photos is because it downloads and stores iCloud photos to internal memory, which can only hold so many photos.

iCloud photo stream does not show all photos

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