iCloud "Low Disk Space", not syncing photos

I have 900mb free on my iPhone, 180GB free in the cloud. I deleted some apps, music and pictures to get 900mb free on my phone. The part of the message that said low disk space is gone but it has been uploading 41 items for 2 days now. Can anyone help. I see lots of people with the problem but no real resolution to the problem.

I really hope Apple improves the way iCloud sync communicates to the user about what is going on and gives us some control. It is so frustrating to have no idea when the photos are going to sync. Sometimes you take a photo and want to have it available on your computer right away, but this sync tool can never promise this will happen. It really defeats the purpose.

I had the same issue But I managed to make it work.

The Low Disk Space refers to the amount if diskspace on your idevice.

Apple will not upload any of your photos or pictures unless there is more than 300mb free disk space on your device.

hope this helps

I pay monthly for 200GB iCloud space and nothing works. I have them for nothing because my iPhone has no space left as the photos are not uploaded to iCloud. 😠

Same! Everything with iCloud Photo Library was working perfectly across all my devices until last night.

What has to be to be done for photos and videos to start getting automatically replaced with optimized versions on the phone?

I have this same exact problem. 439 items to upload. Nothing is changing. I deleted some apps, I have 480mb free. Every time I take a few photos it tells me I'm full. Yet I have 16GB free on my iCloud.

Has anyone found a different solution?

How do you free up the disk space? I've been having this problem for the last few weeks.. a popup will tell me that I haven't backed up my photos in ?? days, but I have the '479 items to download'.. try to download.. goes back to the beginning. I have plenty of storage, pay the $3.99 a month for extra iCloud storage. I think I just have to remove some of my other apps? It does show 153mg available storage.

I am sorry to run into such issues again and again with Apple. Still selling 16GB iPhones when digital cams come with 32GB standard; then clients buy iCloud extra storage and run in pitholes.

Why is there such a contrast in the work of that company, having some things so well thought out and some still in the past decade and taking ages to improve? (also refering to software glitches fix rate)

Does one ever listen to the customers?!

S.Jobs' work punished Nokia and PC makers for their ignorance; hope his company stays away from that mistake.

This was my issue too, the below worked for me -

iOS has several low storage warnings it sends to each and every app to clean up cached files and with < 500 MB of free space, I'd wager you've exercised those limits continuously and it's surprising to me if this is the only thing that is broken on your device right now.

I would:

1. Delete one or two large apps that you know the data is safe/unimportant. Try to get 2 GB of free space if you can but 1 GB of free storage should be sufficient.
2. Power off the device and power it on to let system cache files re-generate
3. Open photos on the device and on iCloud and see if normal operations resume. I've had good luck with photo libraries coming back from all sorts of intentional abuse like you've unintentionally performed. It can take 24 hours or more (if you hit any upload limits) for the cleanup script(s) to trigger so you might wait 48 hours to see if the added space lets iOS complete the upload work that is queued.

After days of frustration and bewilderment, I managed to find this query and followed the recommendation of Kieron McK: "Apple will not upload any of your photos or pictures unless there is more than 300mb free disk space on your device." Deleted songs from my music library that I do not listen to, easily got well above the above-mentioned threshold. Error message indicating low disk space on my iPhone then disappeared, showing only the uploading status "Uploading 935 items". Seems to be the fix.

You might want to consider starting a new discussion. Since this one is marked solved, less people are likely to look at it. A new post would be much more visible. You can link to this one.

The upload is very slow, especially if you are uploading videos.

I was having the same issue and I did what one of the previous posts suggested, deleted some apps and now I have 600 mb free and it went from saying "low disk space" to now saying "uploading". Hopefully it works.

I went through my iMessage and deleted all conversations, they take up a lot of space. Also if you have done all of that you can delete one of your vital apps temporarily and then re download it later. Something like Facebook or fb messenger or Instagram use up a lot too but don't lose any of your data when you delete it and redownload.

Same problem here. No matter how much space I free up, still it won't start uploading new photos/videos (especially large videos take very long to start uploading). It may upload when charging overnight, but usually I want to view my new media on my TV or iPad as soon as I get home 🙂

So, what helps me is restarting the iPhone. Sometimes even repeatedly. But it miraculously just starts uploading, no matter how much free space I have on my iPhone (sometimes it's just a few megabytes left).

Hope it helps... 16GB really *****, looking forward to buying a new phone with greater memory 🙂