Photostream not working after Sierra upgrade

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What are your iCloud settings on your Mac and on each IOS device and if you are using iCloud Photo Library what is its status on each device

Your post is confusing - you can not see or access MyPhotoStream on icloud.com - on iCloud.com/Photos you see iCloud Photo Library photos only - and if a device has not completed uploading to ICPL it does not download photos

So to help we need to know what services you are using and what their status is

LN

No i can see MyPhotoStream on iCloud.com. if i take a Photo with my iPhone and then go to www.icloud.com i can see the Photos, meaning the iPhone is syncing(uploading) the Photos to the cloud.

But that is iCloud Photo Library you are seeing there, not My Photo Stream.

iCloud Photo Library is a different service. It does not tell you, if My Photo Stream is uploading to iCloud.

Does the reverse direction work? If you import a new photo to your Photos Library on your Mac, does it appear on your iPhone?

e (but i can see the new pictures under www.icloud.com)

And that means that your setup is not symmetric. You have iCloud Photo Library enabled on the iPhone, or you would not be seeing the iPhone photos there. Why are you using iCloud Photo Library on the iPhone? To transfer the photos to the Mac "My Photo Stream" should suffice on the iPhone.

Yes, that should work. If iCloud Photo Library is enabled, photos are in iCloud and only mirrored on the iPhone, and then they may not show in the Import panel, when you connect to USB.

I found the answer!! (It has nothing to do with iCloud.)

Open Photos on you computer.

Choose Preferences.

Check the box for My Photo Stream.

The photos on you phone will now download from the "My Photo Stream" album to your computer's "Photos" app with no further action required.

(I had the same problem you did when I up graded to Sierra.)

Andy

It's the old 'switch off, switch back' on trick! Switch off PhotoStream on all devices and switch back on again. Your PS folder will magically reappear.

I had the same problem after upgrading to macOS Sierra and found the following work for me:

In Photos open Preferences… and make sure the button Use as System Photo Library (right under the path to your library) is pressed (greyed out). Unless it is, My Photo Stream will not appear in your sidebar under Albums. (Don't ask me why.)

I have read through every post in this (and related threads), but none of the suggested fixes worked (e.g., quite Photo Agent in Activity Monitor, etc etc). The ONLY thing that worked was:

1. Open Photos on your Mac

2. In Photos, go to Preferences>iCloud

3. Disable "iCloud Photo Library" (I have it enabled on my iPhone –

so I just disabled it for the time being on my Mac)

4. Then disable "My Photo Stream"

5. Wait a few minutes and then select/enable "My Photo Stream" again

6. In Photos left tray, select the "My Photo Stream" icon.

... at this point I FINALLY, since upgrading to Sierra, seeing my iPhone pics getting downloaded (somewhat slowly) to my Mac. Granted it's going slowly, but I've had no synching for a month.

Turning PhotoStream off - deleting all photos manually from phone and wala! OMG - It worked!!! Thankyou!!!!

Thank you for this simple fix!! Works like a charm 🙂

1 - you do not use both MyPhotoStream and iCloud Photo Library - use one or the other

2 - If you are using ICPL do not turn it off except as a last resort as doing so will trigger a new total upload of your library to iCloud - that is a last resort step that is very, very seldom needed

LN