HT204570 iCloud photo library taking up all available iPhone storage

Recently upgraded from iPhoto to iCloud Photo library. It's great, except that it's now taken up all available storage space on my iPhone and I can't even take additional pictures on it. If I delete any pics from my iPhone (to try and free up space), it deletes them from my library and from all of my other devices (Mac mini, MBP, iPad, etc.). I don't want to get rid of the photos, I just want to remove some from the iPhone so that I can actually use the phone. My iCloud Photo library is rather large, and I pay for additional iCloud storage just to be able to accommodate it, but understandably so, my iPhone storage can't accommodate the full library, and I wouldn't expect it to, either.

I've had a similar problem. For me the best solution is to save the photos to my Mac, and then delete them from my phone. This does not however solve the problem with not wanting them to be gone on other devices. Unfortunately, I do not know of a way to exclude a device from having the photo deleted off of it (Wink*Wink* Apple- iOS 9/OS X 10.11? Cough*Cough*). Anyway as for saving space, for me, if I turn off iCloud photo library and then turn it back on again, it will make a lot of space open up. Note: still not total space. I assume that you have a lot of music/photos/apps or something because I have this problem on my 16 GB iPhone, but I don't see how a 64 Gb iPhone can accidentally run out of room. In conclusion, try turning off iCloud Photo Library on and off again. This is my best solution, and it works for me pretty well. Anyway, I hope this helped.

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Is anyone else experiencing the new iCloud Photo Library taking an unbelievable amount of time to upload photos from their Mac? Granted, I've got a lot of photos to upload - somewhere around 4000 -- but so far I've been uploading my pics to iCloud for well into 4-hours and the number of photos "uploading" (according to my iMac's iCloud "ticker") hasn't changed in over 2-hours. It's been stuck on the same number of photos "uploading" for these last 2-hours and shows no progress at all since then. Anyone have a clue as to what gives?

Csound,
I got over 10.000 photo's till now saved at dropbox. It's over 100 Gb. Point is that the upload in dropbox is within the range of a few (2-3) hours while at iCloud it took me more than 24 hours until only 5-6 Gb is uploaded. Same computer same network and a glass fiber provider with really fast internet. So iCloud will cost me weeks before photos are synced.
Like I said, by far the worst cloud service. It is like being back at the 14k4 modem era. This isn't Apple standard or is it the new standard?

ICloud Photo Library (Beta) not syncing from iPhone

I have iCloud Photo Library (Beta) activated on my iPhone 6 and iPad Air. On my iMac I log in to iCloud to see my photos.
Until some days ago, everything went smooth and every photo I took was uploaded and mirrored to all other devices. All modifications as well.
However, since a week or so, I am experiencing issues: I took a number of photos on my iPhone, and first they were uploaded, because I can see them on iPad and iCloud. I then deleted and edited some of these photos on iPhone - but none of these modifications get reflected on other devices. Instead, the „old“ versions are synced, plus even those I’ve deleted from iPhone library. For days now on iPhone I read „uploading xx photos“. But nothings gets uploaded.
(Even when I sync with iPhoto on Mac, none of these modifications are reflected there, either.)
I have shut down and restarted the device several times, to no avail.
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Ok, so here's a solution to this issue:
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Re-entered all my passwords and such
Now it's syncing again.
The whole procedure took me about two hours.
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I am using iCloud Photo library, and noticed that it was taking up too much of my iCloud memory. I have 4 photos and no videos, and that uses around 300 MB of storage. What can I do to change this? Is this a bug?

If I upload my entire Photo Library to iCloud Drive, then delete photos from my Library (on my computer), can I still access those deleted photos on my iCloud Drive?
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HT204570 icloud photo library, yet storage almost full

iPhone 6, latest iOS. I recently went all in with icloud photo. I pumped over 20,000 photos and videos into the cloud. But it seems that I the automatic allocation of storage space is not getting it quite right. I am talking about space on my phone, not cloud. This morning my phone is warning me "storage almost full". But, photos is using 3.5Gb of space. Seems if my phone is sop low on storage (155Mb currently), instead of prompting me to manage the situation it should free some space by purging old media.
This is a big problem. The other day I was trying to take a video and it refused, stating that I was out of storage space. In the past I used to manually pull all the photos and videos from my phone and put them in my iPhoto library on my Mac. Now I can't do that. So, but purchasing 500Gb cloud storage and moving 20,000 photos into that space, I kind of screwed myself. My wife is going through the same thing. I decided to move us into the cloud to eliminate the headache associated with having to manually manage storage due to photo and video consuming lots of space. Now, because iCloud Photo doesn't manage it correctly I need to manage it manually. Only problem, I can't. This make s my phone nearly useless.
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I've had a similar problem. For me the best solution is to save the photos to my Mac, and then delete them from my phone. This does not however solve the problem with not wanting them to be gone on other devices. Unfortunately, I do not know of a way to exclude a device from having the photo deleted off of it (Wink*Wink* Apple- iOS 9/OS X 10.11? Cough*Cough*). Anyway as for saving space, for me, if I turn off iCloud photo library and then turn it back on again, it will make a lot of space open up. Note: still not total space. I assume that you have a lot of music/photos/apps or something because I have this problem on my 16 GB iPhone, but I don't see how a 64 Gb iPhone can accidentally run out of room. In conclusion, try turning off iCloud Photo Library on and off again. This is my best solution, and it works for me pretty well. Anyway, I hope this helped.

HT204570 iCloud Photo Library Update Failing

I have a large library of photos that I'm adding to iCloud --17K+ from my MacBook Pro (running Yosemite). The upload is failing, though, and I'm getting pretty frustrated. The upload appears to be working for a few minutes and then randomly, and for no apparent reason, iCloud Photo Library disables itself (unchecked) and the updating is paused. I have the ability click the Resume button but it doesn't resume the upload-- it still indicates that "iCloud Photo Library updating is paused". Restarting the Photos app is the only way to continue the upload, but eventually, it fails. See the screenshot attached -- I've clicked "Resume" but apparently the upload is still on paused.
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I've had a similar problem. For me the best solution is to save the photos to my Mac, and then delete them from my phone. This does not however solve the problem with not wanting them to be gone on other devices. Unfortunately, I do not know of a way to exclude a device from having the photo deleted off of it (Wink*Wink* Apple- iOS 9/OS X 10.11? Cough*Cough*). Anyway as for saving space, for me, if I turn off iCloud photo library and then turn it back on again, it will make a lot of space open up. Note: still not total space. I assume that you have a lot of music/photos/apps or something because I have this problem on my 16 GB iPhone, but I don't see how a 64 Gb iPhone can accidentally run out of room. In conclusion, try turning off iCloud Photo Library on and off again. This is my best solution, and it works for me pretty well. Anyway, I hope this helped.

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I am a user of icloud Photo Library Beta. Recently I've upgraded my iPhone 5 to an iPhone 6. My photos from my iPhone 5 are all stored in iCloud photo library , and inherently accessible on my iPhone 6.
I am considering selling my iPhone 5 to a friend. I need to know if I restore the device to factory default before selling it... deleting all of the photos stored on the device. Will I also see those photos removed from iCloud photo library? And inherently my iPhone 6? Or will these photos taken from my iPhone 5 remain in the cloud, and remain accessible for full quality download on my iPhone 6?
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Just as a book is on the Public Library and also in the fiction section, a pic is in your individual albums and the same photos can be accessed from the Photo Library.
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Thanks for your reply.
Just found an informative article by iMore that kind of explained it in more detail. However, no official documentation from Apple regarding this subject at all, which is frustrating. The claim is that you shouldn't ever have to delete photos for the sake of saving space. It'll just automatically manage your storage for you. I still don't know exactly how.
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