Why won't my iPhone upload to my iCloud photo library, even though it's turned on in my setting and I have enough spare storage in iCloud?

If I sign out of iCloud to try to sync pix, Im afraid I'll lose data (photos) since it warns that all will be deleted. I know they're either out there somewhere or residing on my phone but do I run the chance of pix going bye-bye?

Hi I had the same problem.The storage was all used up and there was no more space to load the pics.you have to delete some of the pics or buy more storage for the iCloud.I know how frustrating it could be .hope this would help.thanks

I am having the same problem and tried signing out and then signing back in, but lost pretty much ALL of my pictures. Prior to signing out, it has been saying 'uploading 7,715 items' but wouldn't ever upload them. After signing out and back in, I have hardly ANY of my pics/videos on my phone and it now says 'uploading 1,391 items' but they still won't upload.... PLEASE help!!!! Starting to worry just a bit!!!

I have absolutely the same problem. In my mini ipad and iphone 7 didn't manage to upload any photo.

I did sign off and sign in, reset phone. Still have a problem

Dropbox and Google works properly.

Apple - solve this issue please!

I hope new release (iOS 11) will have fix of this issue. For now I found a great solution for me photos.google.com. It has unlimited photo/video storage and very user-friendly what I can't say about icloud.

I am having the same issue with my iPhone 6s Plus iOS 10.3.3! My iPhone told me it could no longer back-upload photos/videos to iCloud because my initial 5 GB iCloud storage was getting full. So I went ahead and bought the 50 GB storage at $.99 per month. But after buying more iCloud storage, my iPhone still will not resume uploading backup copies of my photos and videos to iCloud. I tried completely turning off the iPhone and then rebooting. No success. I then tried sliding off the iCloud Photo Library tab within setting in the hopes that this would re-trigger the sync process. No success. I don't know what to do and am getting very frustrated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for your response.

I don't know how to "sign out of iCloud and then sign back in."

I am on vacation in France and taking a lot of photos and videos with my iPhone 6s Plus. A few days ago a message came up telling me my iCound photo library was getting full and would stop uploading unless I got more space. I went onto my MacBook and bought more iCloud storage. But the iCloud Photo Library did not resume the uploading backup process and, when I went into settings it told me there were 17 item that were not being backed up. I went the Apple support thread and followed the advice of the original postings. I turned off the iPhone and rebooted. That made no difference. I then tried sliding the green button to "off" corresponding to iCloud Photo Library. When I slid the green tab back on, the text immediately underneath said: "uploading 599 items " I waited overnight and the message did not change and no recent photos or video has been uploaded into iCloud Photo Library. I have taken a bunch more photos and videos and now the settings message says: "uploading 677 items. " But still the iCloud Photo Library backup process is not uploading. Last night I plugged my iPhone in to the charging cable, I made sure wifi was on, but nothing changed overnight. The settings message still says uploading 677 items and no new photos or videos have been added to the iclound photo library as viewed on my MacBook.

I am willing to try signing out of iCloud and signing back on if I can find out how to do it and am assured I would lose any of my photos or videos on my iPhone.

Thanks.

Don't sign out of iCloud yet.

How much free space do you have on the iPhone? Check Settings/General/Storage & iCloud Usage/Storage. If you are low on space, to increase space available, go Settings/Your Name/iCloud/Photos and select Optimize iPhone/iPad Storage. That will reduce the space required by about 90% when fully effective.

That should be enough to allow for syncing. Settings/General/Storage & iCloud Usage/Storage - how much total iCloud storage do you show? 50 GB? If your iCloud storage was full when you upgraded, based on some other posts, it may take a couple of days to get syncing working agin.

I too have had many upload and synch issues between iPads and the iCloud library, and also have plenty of paid for unused space. Often the synchronizaton process appears to get stuck on iOS devices, and Apple support staff at the iCloud online desk never have a clear answer for why or for what to do.

One action I was walked through was to sign out of iCloud services (at the bottom of iCloud settings) being careful to keep your data, wait a bit, and then sign back in to iCloud services. This wakes up the library synchronization. And for me it kicked off days of re-sync'ing, with 40,000+ photos.

I have found that simply turning off or rebooting the iOS device will usually wake up the sync activity, and seems as effective as recycling the iCloud service settings.

However, after weeks now, 2months maybe, I still have a couple of devices that appear to be fully synchronized, and keep synchronized when I edit or delete photos, yet still show 200-sh photos to upload, and are just stuck there, never changing.

Fortunately my Mac, once it was done clogging the network with uploads, seems to have no sync problems. I did opt to keep a full copy of all photos on the Mac (Optimize Mac Storage: no). Even though my internet connection and wifi are pretty fast, iCloud is often slow (or stalled) to offer up photos to iOS devices. Seems like there are various performance issues. So keeping a local copy on the Mac has helped me keep reasonable photo editing performance.

Best of luck to you. I hope the iCloud library settles into a more reliable and performant service; the idea of it is great.

I am having the same issue. Did you happen to experience the issue after saving a photo to your library from a third party app like pro cam or Photogrid after editing or creating a new photo? That seems to be the common thread both times this has happened to me. Resolved it the first time by deleting that photo (also from the Recently Deleted album). But that doesn't seem to be working this time.

I'm also having this problem ever since updating to 10.10.4 - frustrating! I didn't change any settings on my mac or my phone. Hopefully it will get worked out soon!

I am having the exact same issue and it really is frustrating. I wish something would be done about this.

Try Settings/iCloud and slide off syncing. Wait a few minutes and then resync.

Have you tried signing out of iCloud and then sign back in?