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 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?

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. 😠

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 🙂

Got the same problem.

And also:

Settings >> iCloud | Storage = 18.6 Gb Available

Settings >> iCloud >> Storage | Total Storage = 0 bytes, Available = 2.6 Gb

Why ?

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 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

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

Thanks, This helped me

I HAVE 1 GB on my phone and it STILL won't upload the photos.

Thank you for posting. Where did you learn about the 300mb minimum for uploading photos?

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.