iOs 8.4 Photos no longer upload to iCloud

Hey there Dave Sag,

I understand that you are seeing an issue with your iCloud Photo Library where your photos will not upload. You may want to review your available iCloud storage, since this would be one explanation for the behavior you are seeing:

What happens when I go over my iCloud storage limit?

If you exceed your iCloud storage limit, photos and videos won't upload to iCloud and your library won’t stay up to date across your devices. To continue using iCloud Photo Library, upgrade your storage plan or reduce the amount of storage that you're using.

Reduce the storage for iCloud Photo Library by deleting photos and videos you don't want to keep from your iOS devices or on iCloud.com. Your device will immediately remove any photos and videos you delete and they won't be available for recovery in your Recently Deleted album.

If you're out of storage, your devices won't back up to iCloud, and new photos, videos, documents, and data won't stay up to date.

Get help with your iCloud Photo Library - Apple Support

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204570

Take care, and thanks for visiting the Apple Support Communities.

-Braden

You know, I hadn't made the connection to the 8.4 upgrade, but now that I think about it, that seems to be when it happened. Sigh. Hopefully 8.4.1 will be out soon to fix it. At least things are getting backed up to Google Photos in the meantime (which is actually generally what Photos should have been... but of course you lose the tight integration with iOS/OSX.

I started having this problem right before updating to iOS 8.4. (I had 8.3.) I had never really understood how iCloud Photo Library Worked; I did some research and got things loading, and it stopped, on both my iPhone and my iPad, and the progress bar went away. Tried all the obvious stuff (like restarting apps and devices), to no avail.

When I got on the discussion boards to figure it out, I saw pages and pages going back to iOS 8.1. People having this issue, no solid solution. I hoped that updating to 8.4 would address the issue--surely Apple wouldn't let a problem exist through three updates without fixing it! But it seems, in fact, that's what Apple has done. They've ignored all the posts on this issue, and just send everybody the iCloud Photo Library FAQ as though that takes care of it. It never does.

It's not the storage. I'm experiencing this too and I have tons of free iCloud storage.

Same issue here. Have had this issue before, but removing iCloud Photo Storage and adding it back would (painfully) fix it. Now it just won't work ever since the 8.4 update, no matter what fix I try.

It really is a pain that a feature that is supposed to be transparent to users (has no upload button, no pause button, no resync button) works so inconsistently.

I have the same problem, but already since iOS 8.0. Ever so often the phone just stops uploading, with no explanation. The solution – which is not a solution to me – is disabling photo library and then enable it again. That process takes a lot of time, and the last time I did that it removed all my albums.

It's a buggy process that has never worked well for me. Like so many ideas Apples pushes out lately, the idea is good but the implementation is incredibly buggy and unreliable.

I Have iPhones 6 Plus on IOS 8.4 I upgraded yesterday and everything went fine.

however today I was trying to browse the web I found the Internet is very slow, after diving around I realized that the iCloud Photo Sharing is uploading around a 1000 picture.

THe the problem is it is stuck and it doesn't finding no matter how long I keep the iPhone connected to the wifi, I also don't understand if it's stuck! Then why the Internet is so slow!

anybody tried anything that worked!!

I Discovered something.

if you tried to randomly delete stuff from your "Recently Deleted" folder, the upload resume again 🙂

IT took almost 29 hours to finish, I guess it has something to do with Apple servers being busy

bbut it is now finished uploading 🙂

Randomly delete something ... empty Recently Deleted folder, etc. and that likely will have it working again ... 😎

This was not a fix for me😢 continues trying to upload and drains my battery!

OK, here's the answer ... it worked for me perfectly though it does take a while > Sign off iCloud on your iPhone, then Sign back in !

I Can't begin to tell you how great full I am! This worked and you all have been so very helpful.

THanks so much🙂