Photos App On Mac - My Photostream Not Updating

No. I don't have iCloud Photo Library. That is the Subscription Service of uploading every picture you own to every device, correct.

I am only using My Photostream & Sharing. But it still does not make sense. All my other devices & iPhoto on the same Mac have over 800 Photos in their Photostreams. Photos is the only one I have 99 photos in it's My Photostream.

And to add, I shut off My Photostream on all devices & then just turned on Photos "My Photostream" and that is how I got 99. Before that I only had 53 Photos in there. 99 is the most the Photos App has ever had.

I really don't think so. Because in iPhoto you have the ability to add photos to iCloud (My Photostream) and I add photos to it all the time. And that's another issue. I see no place in the Photo App to add pictures to My Photostream. Why not? Did they remove that feature? I used that feature all the time to make sure my favorite photos were always in My Photostream. Also, when I take a brand new photo on my iPhone. The photo immediately appears on all devices except the Photo App on my Mac. That is itself is an indication that something is definitely wrong with my Photos App.

Sure I see one. In left hand column. It's called "My Photstream" but it is not updating to any new photos I take on my iPhone.

I just took another photo & it appeared in Photostream on EVERY device including iPhoto on the Mac. All except Photos on the Mac. I don't know how it chose to just put these 99 photos in there because they are random photos. It makes no sense. Bottom line is any new photo I take on my iPhone should appear in My Photostream in Photos on my Mac, and it does not. But if I Import a random photo on my from anywhere on my Mac that is not in Photos, it will put it that photo in My Photstream.

Are you saying I should no longer be using iPhoto? I have both. But they have 2 separate Librarys in my Mac's Pictures Folder. So they really have nothing to do with one another. And why shouldn't iPhoto be showing the New Pictures I take with my iPhone in it's iCloud (Photostream)? iPhoto is working as Normal. Is there anything wrong with running both of these programs on the same Mac? Since they both have their own individual Library's, I can't see why not.

I do understand that. But they are never open at the same time.

Are you saying I should not have them both installed?

I would hate to give up my iPhoto.

Another issue is, in Photos I cannot add some favorite photos into the Photostream. I could easily do that with iPhoto.

There are certain photos that I always like to have in My Photostream and in iPhpto that is accomplished quite easily.

But I see no way to do that in Photos.

Call me old fashioned but I like iPhoto.

But I'm also a realist & know it will eventually be discontinued. That is why I am trying to get Photos to work for me.

Thanks for sticking with me on this!

laspen, Thanks for chiming in. I'm not saying anything. I'm just waiting for Winston to answer some of those questions. I thought maybe when I installed Yosemite, somehow my Photos App got corrupted when it installed. I talked to Apple on the phone & unfortunately Photos is not available as a separate App. It is installed as part of Yosemite. And Apple on the Phone did not really have an answer as to why Photos is not updating. Since I just did a clean install of Yosemite last week, I doubt that my Photos App is corrupt. But who knows?

laspen, If you take a new photo on your iPhone or iPad, does the photo show up in the Photos App under My Photostream?