Q: Photos won't upload to iCloud.

I have a similar problem to this and have been dealing with Apple Tech Support with this since July 2015 it is getting frustrating. They have reset my account a number of times and the problem returns.

I encountered a similar situation.  What helped for me was this -- Use the Photos library repair tool - Apple Support.  I also found that initially, when you're uploading this large a library to iCloud, it will take some time to upload and it's all dependent on your network/bandwidth.  My library which was over 7000 took a couple days to upload.

Try the suggestions in that link and see if there's any changes, and if not, feel free to return to your post to post results.

Hi, I have exactly the same problem. Photo's will not upload on both my iPad and iPhone to the iCloud Photo Library. The Photostream also does not work. I do not have a Mac, so repairing the photo library won't work. As the problem is the same on both my iPhone and iPad, the problem seems to be related to the iCloud service?

Anyone for another solution?

Have you attempted to turn off your iCloud account on those devices mentioned, wait a couple of minutes, then turn back on, and see what happens?

Yes, and that didn't work either.

It remains saying: 'uploading 1.072 items'. It sometimes briefly flashes to something else (not readable).

Seems like something is blocking it from uploading. As this situation is the same on my iPhone and iPad, my thought was that it has something to do with iCloud itself (or my storage in particular).

Sounds like it might be your ISP and your upload speeds.

I do not think that is the case, because the problem exists everywhere, so also at work or at other places.

By the way, at home I have a fiber connection with 50/50Mbs speed, so that should not be the problem either.

Uploading photo's from a browser on iCloud.com does work with me. But it says first: 'initializing photo library'. So it seems that activating photo library on both my PC, my iPhone and my iPad did not activate the photo library at iCloud.com! I uploaded one photo successfully from my PC via the browser.

I then logged of from iCloud from my iPad and iPhone and logged on again. But they still are refusing to upload and download photo's...

What you're seeing is similar to what I saw when our photo/video library of over 7500 was being uploaded.  It'll take some time....

Well, I appreciate your tip, but this problem is persisting now for more than 3 months... And not a single photo has been uploaded/downloaded.

jbenjaminb wrote:

 

I have decided to give up on iCloud Photo Library. After nearly two months of working with Apple support, they have not been able to find a solution to this problem. During this time they had full access to my account. I did not feel comfortable allowing access for that amount of time, and decided two months was long enough. I will return to Flickr for my cloud photo storage.

Kinda the same sentiment I have about iCloud/iCloud Photos as well which is why I primarily use a third-party application for my photo storage needs like you're doing though not the same application.

Uploading photo's to iCloud Photo Library is working again! Some days after the 9.3 update my photo's started uploading to the iCloud Photo Library again!