Photo stream missing with iOS 8.3 on ipad

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Photo stream missing with iOS 8.3 on ipad

I Installed iOS 8.3 approximately three days ago on both my iPhone 5C and my iPad Air. I noticed that my iPad no longer had photo stream but that my iPhone did. I thought nothing much of it until today when I took a picture with my iPhone which didn't sync over to my iPad. I have iCloud Photo Library on and upload to my photo stream on for both devices. Both devices have been connected to wi-fi for all but a couple of hours these last several days. I do see that my iPhone is about a third of the way through trying to upload 868 items ... either it's going to take another six plus days for the rest to upload (assuming the upload continues at the current sloooooow rate) or the upload has bogged down and won't complete. Any advice?

iPad, iOS 6.1.2

Posted on Apr 11, 2015 3:53 PM

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Nanato4Ts Author

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Apr 11, 2015 4:00 PM in response to Nanato4Ts

On a whim, I just took a photo with my iPad. It didn't sync to my photo stream on my iPhone which is now missing.

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Short812

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Apr 12, 2015 3:14 PM in response to Nanato4Ts

I Have the same problem with my ipad mini. After installing ios 8.3 when I opened photos it asked if I wanted to use icloud to store my photos. I replied yes and then Photo Stream completely disappeared from my ipad. I have no idea how to get it back, I know it's there cause i can access it from my computer but I can't get it with my ipad so I can't see any of my pictures in photo stream from my ipad.

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Apr 15, 2015 3:22 AM in response to Short812

Actually, I have the situation exactly the same as yours. How did you sort out? And can anyone give an answer? Thank you. 😊

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Nanato4Ts Author

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Apr 15, 2015 4:17 AM in response to Nanato4Ts

Overnight, I plug in my iPhone and iPad to an electrical outlet to charge up. One morning, after they'd been plugged in all night and were fully charged (and connected to wifi), I discovered that they had synced photos. Now instead of Photostream, everything is in All Photos. I'm not sure if all 3 conditions (plugged into an electrical outlet, fully charged and connected to wifi) are all required for syncing to occur (obviously I'm sure wifi is). Nor do I know if syncing will happen instantaneously or on a "schedule" ... assuming the required conditions are met. Give plugging in your devices and charging them to 100% while connected to wifi a try and see if you can find the photos that had previously been in your Photostream.

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julhic

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Apr 16, 2015 12:29 PM in response to Short812

Go to Settings then Photos on the iPad. Click "Download and Keep Originals" and your photo stream comes back. Click "Download and Keep Originals" along with "iCloud Photo Library", "Upload to My Photo Stream" and "iCloud Photo Sharing". When you download version 8.3, it defaults to "Optimize iPad Storage"

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julhic

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Apr 16, 2015 12:30 PM in response to julhic

Go to Settings then Photos on the iPad. Click "Download and Keep Originals" and your photo stream comes back. Click "Download and Keep Originals" along with "iCloud Photo Library", "Upload to My Photo Stream" and "iCloud Photo Sharing". When you download version 8.3, it defaults to "Optimize iPad Storage"

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julhic

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Apr 16, 2015 12:58 PM in response to julhic

This didn't work as expected - I'm lost and losing patience...

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Short812

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Apr 17, 2015 5:36 AM in response to julhic

Spent awhile with apple on the phone. The tech finally went to a higher up and told me to shut off icloud photo library under settings/photos & camera, then reboot the ipad. Said it would take upto 10 minutes, after about 30 minutes of the ipad spinning a wheel in front of me I figured it was locked and exited settings and rebooted. Now I have photo stream back, but I can't get access to the pictures that were already on it, just new one's. If I turn photo library back on photo stream disappears again, so I guess I have to live with it like this. It's a real bummer, but at least I still can get the old pictures from my windows computer. I hope Apple fixes this problem with their next update!

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Apr 17, 2015 2:18 PM in response to Short812

This same exact thing happened to me today! The only pictures left on my ipad are ones I took with my ipad. And when I take new pics on my phone, they don't go to the ipad. Photostream and wifi are on all devices. Rebooted several times. Nothing.

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Apr 19, 2015 11:55 AM in response to Nanato4Ts

Same issue here.

New photos from my iPhone (iOS 8.3), Mac Mini (OS X 10.10.2), or MacBook Pro (OS X 10.10.3) show up in the iPad's "My Photo Stream" Album. Existing photos that are in my Photo Stream will not download to the iPad, no matter what I try. I tried rebooting, a hard reset. Syncing with my Mac Mini told me that the photos already on my iPad were already imported, do you want to delete them ? When I answered Yes, to delete them, they stayed on the iPad. The only way to delete them was to delete them manually from the iPad.

iPad running iOS 8.3:

Settings -> iCloud -> Photos:

iCloud Photo Library: OFF

My Photo Stream: ON

iCloud Photo Sharing: ON

Settings -> Photos & Camers

3 settings above - same

Photos Tab, Summarize Photos: ON

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gabymuse

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Apr 19, 2015 5:56 PM in response to Nanato4Ts

Has anyone sorted this out? I have this exact problem and tried everything mentioned so far, but my photstream folder is still missing

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Nanato4Ts Author

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Apr 19, 2015 6:06 PM in response to gabymuse

Evidently Photostream has been eliminated, which as it turns out wasn't really my original problem. My problem was the missing photos that used to be in my Photostream. Those photos are now on both devices and both devices sync, as long as they're both charged approximately 90% or more. I can live with that.

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