Photos not syncing in iCloud

" ... let’s try turning off shared photos and turning it back on. Go to Settings > Photos & Camera > and turn off iCloud Photo Sharing. Once that’s off, go ahead and restart your iPhone and then turn it back on. "

Awesome, It's working now! Thanks
BTW, it looks like a MS troubleshooting... Restart, and log on again

I have the same problem, in spite of following all steps that there iare, still not working. My pictures from my phone are not in sync and viceversa. Somebody mentioned that this problem started with the 10. Upgrading, and going back to the dates on my pics it looks like that could be accurate. Any advice, please?

what version of the OS and or Photos do you have? What are your iCloud settings and status in Photos on the Mac and on each IOS device?

The most common cause of this is a device or devices that have not completed uploading all items

LN

Same here.

In my case, they are pictures I took last weekend on a DSLR and which I imported to my iMac from the camera SD card. These images are now in my Photos, but they are not in iCloud Photos Library (hence not on my iPhone and iPads. The pics I took *with my iPhone* this same weekend got synced in iCloud Photo Library.

Never happened before. I didn't change any settings on my iMac.

The "Use iCloud Photo library" is on (in Photos prefs). But there's also a progression bar stating it has to upload my *entire* library !!!

This is my main Mac, the one that always had all my photos library. The one I always put my new pics from my cameras in. Why did it stop working?

Why did it stop working? It did not, it is working just fine

The "Use iCloud Photo library" is on (in Photos prefs). But there's also a progression bar stating it has to upload my *entire* library !!!

Then it is uploading and when it is complete everything will be there - uploading the entire library is triggered by user action causing the local library to be disconnected from ICP and then reconnecting - this can be cause by moving the library, turning iCloud or ICPL off and back on, repairing the library or any other action that disconnects the library from iCloud - anytime you do that the library must be uploaded in full to verify library integrity

Leave it alone, keep the Mac awake, powered on connected to the internet so it can finish as quickly as possible - but at best it is a slow process and you should never disconnect it and reconnected it unless it is critical that you do - doing this is a last resort

LN

Thanks for your help, Larry! :-)

I'll do just that, then.

I actually tried that before posting, but after one full day, progresses were very little (still a staggering numbers of pics "waiting" to be uploaded).

Since my post, some new pics showed up in iCloud. And some that were there before but which I decided to delete from my library still were. So it is like the sync goes very, very slowly.

I'll let my old iMac peacefully on for a few days and see what's happening.

I have the same issue. Photos on iPad and iPhone are syncing fine, ones uploaded over last 4 weeks to Photos on iMac from an SD card are still trying to upload (31 items) .

The corollary is that the photos taken on iPad and iPhone are not downloaded to the i`Mac as I understand from last time this happened that uploads take precedence over downloads.

I have tried pausing and resuming, quitting Photos and restarting, leaving the iMac on for 2 days to no avail. Still says uploading 31 items and still doing nothing.

If I upload them from a folder onto iCloud will this free the log jam or just confuse the **** out of the system?

This is definitely not working as expecting. It seems totally random if/when photos will show up or not. Sometimes yes, sometimes no :-/ I've got both devices on the internet, staring at it, nothing. Open/close/open photos app on both Mac and iPhone, nothing. iPhone Settings-iCloud->Photos says: "Last updated 3 minutes ago". Whatever that means? :-( Sigh. This should be such a solved problem; can't believe Apple is getting this wrong! And no way to manually force a sync either?! Why not? :-( Only option then is to hook up a cable but that's sooo twentieth century :-)

There is something wrong with iCloud, and its not very Applesque and user-friendly. I recently purchased 2TB and have had my laptop on for 3 days yet still only 25% of my 200GB photos library was uploaded and now no matter what i try it just doesn't want to finish the rest. I have all the updates on Macbook Pro and iPad Pro/iPhone 6s.

iCloud Drive is a great concept on paper, but apple has done a **** poor job of implementation. I work in software development and if i would ever put out a product with this type of quality i would fire myself. just my 2 cents.

I have tried the trick of deleting the cloud folder in library folder under my user account, and force quiting the cloudd task. Seemed to re-sync my desktop folder but photos is still in limbo land.

Also when i added a document through iPad to desktop folder it never apeared on my mac desktop till i did the above steps. Oh i have 150Mbs Down/20Mbs Up Internet through COX and have tried the syncing through VPN client and with VPN turned off. Same **** poor experience...

Makes me want to reconsider OneDrive or Google Drive...

Exact same here.

Photos on my Mac pretends it has my all library to upload (more than 36'000 pics!). I left my Mac and Photos on for 4 days, but the upload is not progressing.

Meanwhile, none of the new photos I'm taking with my iPhone shows up in Photos anymore. They are in iCloud - they're just not showing up in Photos. It also means I need to go to iCloud to get my "old" photos in HD (to download them or retouch them), Photos doesn't want to give them to me. :-(((

What's happening? I've been using Photos, iCloud for years. I've plenty of space left on my costly 2To iCloud subscription. :-((

I found something interesting....

I have a iPhone SE 16GB, I have installed Whatsapp and its size is 3.2 GB. Every week Whatsapp creates a backup and it's uploaded to iCloud. To create this backup, Whatsapp uses internal memory. Once the backup has been uploaded to iCloud, the "temp file" (you can't see it) is deleted. This process is executed every Wed.

So, I found if the iPhone has less 500 MB storage free, I got an warning message in Photos saying something like: "Low Disk Space - 80 Items to Upload".

Once the Whatapp backup is done, I got more than 700 MB and photos are sync.

It's a pain in the neck, since you need to sync photos in order to use the feature "optimized iphone storage".

I hope this helps.

Same issue here... just trying to share 22 pics with a friend, no way to check status, the workflow is unclear so I try different ways of sharing and now I have 88 pics going to the shared folder (and they still aren't showing up).

So frustrating... time for Flickr

My issue resolved itself after days of playing about turning Upload on and off, leaving the computer on permanently etc etc. Then one day I suddenly found all the devices were in sync. However we have now been away again, photos uploaded onto the iPad whilst we were abroad, are now on 2 pads and the phone and in the Cloud, but will they download to Photos, NO!

Interestingly a shared album I had set up for subset of the photos has downloaded immediately to photos. This was the same on the last occasion and I deleted it in case it was interfering in some unknown manner so i will try that again.

No one's found a resolution (or at least reason) for this? Started happening on my iMac a couple days ago. Photos sync find between by iPhone, iPad, and MacBook, but the iMac (where I need the photos most) won't sync. I've been turning iCloud and Photo Stream on and off for days now, to no help. It's infuriating.

I have the same issue as Nicolas Huber. I left the mac online but it does´t do anything with the uploading. I have verified this on my router. Apple photo doesn't do anything but claims to upload the entire library again for days.

I have restarted etc. Nothing happening on the router.

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