My iCloud Photo Stream is not syncing correctly to my Windows 8.1 laptop or my Windows 7 PC.

Thanks for the simple description and fix, XFacter.

Too often, I've seen my clients computers not syncing with iCloud, Photo Stream, etc. and rolling back the software has had the highest success rate for all of them.

Log out of iCloud 3.1

Uninstall iCloud 3.1

Download iCloud 2.x

Install iCloud 2.x using Compatibility mode

Log back in, and it should be working almost immediately.

That is, also, assuming the iPhone/device has the proper settings enabled, is above 20% battery, and is on WiFi somewhere for the best results.

I was wondering if installing the 2.o icloud would have any adverse effects on other Apple systems, I tunes, or on my iphone 5? I went ahead and installed I cloud 2.0 last night and finally after several days and phone calls to Apple, my photostream has started working again. With 3.o it would stop after 80 pics, and would not stream any recent ones. So frustrating. Thanks!

So icloud 2.0 whatever worked for about 12 hours for me, and then stopped working. By installing 2.o it messed up my favorites for the internet on my iphone/ipad. I ended up taking it back off the computer and installing most recent icloud version. I was able to correct my favorites. When I put 3.0 i cloud back on , it still only loaded the same 75 pictures and nothing that I have taken within the last week, so still not working. I ended up calling Apple support. Very nice people, but every call kept me on the phone for no less than 1 hour, and I really should not have spent that much time on this..... but I did. They tried a lot of stuff. I spoke with a senior engineer who had me send a log file from my computer to Apple engineers. They reviewed what my computer had been doing recently. When she got back with me, they wanted me to try things like disabling the firewall, setting up photostream under new user on the computer. We did all of that and still nothing. Only loads the same 75-80 pictures that it has been. In very fine print at the bottom of her email from the engineers, she finally told me that they know this is a problem and are working on a solution, dont know when, but the "work around" for now is just to use put all of your new pics on a "shared photostream". That has worked so far for me. It is kind of a pain to manually add each pic to the shared stream, but at least it gets on computer. I had used Onedrive by Microsoft over the past week while we were figuring this out, but it is not as automatic as it appears to me, and I still had to do some things with it to make sure things were getting uploaded.

I too have had issues but for me any shared album sync'd it was only photo stream that didn't. I stumbled across this article that worked a treat for me so thought it useful to share here in case it helped others.

http://kalpeshpadia.wordpress.com/2013/11/14/windows-7-photo-stream-not-syncing- after-icloud-3-0-solved/

Thank you for step by step instructions. This worked perfectly for me, and I finally have my photo stream back on my PC. Thank you so much!

I have tried everything you have listed here. Step by step. Back on 2.1.3.25 using Win7 and changing to compatibility mode. Still only gives me 43 out of 1000 pictures. What a joke. I am glad it worked for everyone else.

This worked for me on my Windows 8.1 x64 and iCloud 3.1 app:

1. Go to iCloud Control Panel and turn off Photos and Bookmarks syncing.

No need to turn off contacts & calendars sync and no need to sign out as it may cause issues with your Outlook.

2. Close iCloud Control Panel.

3. Press WIN+R and go to this folder: %APPDATA%\Apple Computer

4. Rename MediaStream folder to MediaStream.BAK

5. Go to iClould Control Panel and re-enable Photos (and Bookmarks if applicable) sync.

Thanks. It did not work for me. I am running Windows 7 and the most up-to-date iTunes. I also just installed icloud control panel 4.0 in hopes that it would be fixed. Still only gives me about 40 of 1000 photos. Cheers.

Hi Howard, this worked for me except I download the iCloud 2.1.3 for windows vista and installed that. Working perfect.

Win 8.1 Pro x64

Howard:

There are so many different ways of "solving" this issue, and none of them have worked for me. Can you recommend the method that works the most? Can you tell me the date and time of the post in this thread so that I can follow it step by step to see if it will resolve my issue?

Bill S

info@anywhere-pc.com

For a time being I deleted the iCloud backup of my photos and it worked for a bit on two different PCs. But now for some reason it stopped working on one of my computers. It's such a finicky thing.

Signing out of iCloud and signing back in again worked for me. This is with iCloud control panel 4.0.

I have been trying everything!!! everyone else's methods,,,, I have just tried this and it works

thanks

Same issue here. None of the suggestions worked for me. I have spoken with Apple many times already with no resolution. They don't even call back anymore when promised. I am using V. 4.0 of icloud for windows. I upgraded, at their suggestion, since V3 was not working.

Apple ... anybody listening???

I had the same problem as well . ICloud Photo Streaming would not update my Win7 PC after I updated to IOS 8.1. My fix was as follows. On IPhone (6) go to settings /Icloud / Photos, tap on Photos. Insure ICloud Photo Library (Beta) is in the on position. Give it a few minutes. Check your account @ ICloud.com you should see your photos. Next, sign out of the ICloud control panel on the Win PC. Go to C:\USER\Pictures\ My Pictures\ICloud Photo. Make a copy of your pictures and place in a temp folder. Then uninstall ICloud Control Panel through add and remove programs (Programs Features). Re install new copy of Icloud Control Panel Version 4. Once installed sign in with apple ID and give it a few minutes to download and update the PC folders with the pictures.