how long does it take for a picture taken on i-phone to show in photo on mac

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how long does it take for a picture taken on i-phone to show in photo on mac

I used to see photos taken with my i-phone in "my photo stream" in "i-photo" on my Macbook pro

Since an upgrade to Yosemite which loaded "Photo" vs "i-photo" on my Mac, as well as an upgrade to new i-phone,

I can't seem to get things to sync properly

I am using i-cloud and have everything set to store and retrieve all items (photos) from i-Cloud

When I go into "All Photos", I see photos from 3 days ago but nothing more current.

Am I doing something wrong?

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Aug 10, 2015 5:45 PM

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LarryHN

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Aug 10, 2015 6:51 PM in response to christopherfromharvard

what are your settings for iCloud in the system preferences and in the Photos preferences and on each IOS device - and what it the upload status for iCloud Photo Library (until all uploads complete no downloads occur)

LN

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Answer 2

Aug 11, 2015 3:54 PM in response to LarryHN

OK Thanks. So what is being uploaded ? Photos and videos ? Is it normal for this to take several days ? Is it only uploading when my computer is awake and Photos is open ?

Thank you for your insight ....

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Csound1

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Aug 10, 2015 6:05 PM in response to christopherfromharvard

What version of IOS and OS X are you using, your profile says 10.8.2, but that can't be right.

But assuming it's IOS 8 and OS X 10.10.3 or greater it should be minutes. In my experience after taking a picture on the iPhone the image arrives at iCloud (server, on the web) virtually at once, download to other connected devices very shortly afterward.

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Answer 4

Aug 11, 2015 5:45 AM in response to Csound1

I'm using 8.4 on an i-phone 6 and version Yosemite 10.10.4 on a MacBook Pro. On the Mac, my iCloud settings have iCloud Photo Library, My Photo Stream, and i-Cloud Photo Sharing all checked; I have subscribed to 200 GB; the "manage storage" button says I have 3381 photos and 78 videos stored in i-Cloud

On the i-phone, all photo settings under i-Cloud (Photo Library, Upload to my photo stream, upload burst photos, iCloud photo sharing etc.) are turned on.

As of this morning, when I look in the "All Photos" folder on Photos on the MAC (which I assume functions like "My Photo Stream" used to), it shows a date range of June 12 1999 to Aug 7, 2015 for the photos it is displaying. In other words, it stopped updating 5 days ago for some reason. Also, when I look at the "Photos" folder, it states at the bottom that this holds 3553 photos and 65 videos (different statistics from the i-Cloud settings) and below that it says "Uploading 664 items". This last statistic has decreased over the past couple of days from when it said uploading 1500 or so items.

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Answer 5

Aug 11, 2015 5:47 AM in response to LarryHN

I'm using 8.4 on an i-phone 6 and version Yosemite 10.10.4 on a MacBook Pro. On the Mac, my iCloud settings have iCloud Photo Library, My Photo Stream, and i-Cloud Photo Sharing all checked; I have subscribed to 200 GB; the "manage storage" button says I have 3381 photos and 78 videos stored in i-Cloud

On the i-phone, all photo settings under i-Cloud (Photo Library, Upload to my photo stream, upload burst photos, iCloud photo sharing etc.) are turned on.

As of this morning, when I look in the "All Photos" folder on Photos on the MAC (which I assume functions like "My Photo Stream" used to), it shows a date range of June 12 1999 to Aug 7, 2015 for the photos it is displaying. In other words, it stopped updating 5 days ago for some reason. Also, when I look at the "Photos" folder, it states at the bottom that this holds 3553 photos and 65 videos (different statistics from the i-Cloud settings) and below that it says "Uploading 664 items". This last statistic has decreased over the past couple of days from when it said uploading 1500 or so items.

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Answer 6

LarryHN

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Aug 11, 2015 8:09 AM in response to christopherfromharvard

so that is it

it says "Uploading 664 items"

(until all uploads complete no downloads occur)

LN

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