My photos are staying in Photo Stream longer than 30 days

My photos are staying in Photo Stream longer than 30 days. Aside from the annoyance of not being able to delete them in the first place, on my iPhone they never go away!
Anyone know why this is happening and/or how to fix it?
Thanks!

Gotcha, thanks Winston Churchill. I guess they haven't enabled that.

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I migrated my iPhoto library to the new Photos. I did not turn the upload to the iCloud option because I didn't have sufficient storage.
Later I upgraded my iCloud to 200GB and I turned on the iCloud Photo Library option.
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I have about 1,200 photos and I had the same problem. Here is what worked for me.
I have an iPhone 6 an iPad and a iMac. I shut down all open and or running applications on all devices. I then rebooted all three devices. I then disabled sleep and auto-lock on all devices. I then opened Photos on all three devices. All 1,200 photos uploaded in about two hours.
this might not work for others but it worked for me.

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Can anyone tell me why my PC doesn't automatically update with my photos. I' m pretty sure I have all the right setting on. When I go to iPhoto's there's nothing there. I have my photo stream folder with pictures I have had to transfer in. The photos don't show on my PC and my recently acquired iPad. Only on the original iPhone device.

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When I delete photos from my Camera Roll on my iPohne 4 they are not deleted from the photo stream (icloud)....is there a reason for that?
Can I make it so photos i delete from my Camera Roll will also be deleted from photo stream or there is not such an option?
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4486?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
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i have to get a new iphone because my speakers are blown and i was double checking to make sure all my stuff was backed up on my icloud and i noticed that all my pictures show up in the photostream album on my phone but the last 20 pictures are nowhere to be found in the photostream folder on my computer.

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hi,
i am no apple genius so i need help...
i had a iPhone 4s worked fine. downloaded ios6, completely corrupted it kept crashing etc, took it to the apple shop he gave me a new iphone but with ios5.1.1 and "set it up" with it putting all my pictures back, simple pimple.
okay so my problem is in the shop my photo stream on the new iphone was updating with all the pictures i recently took (picture 94 of 1294), it was taking its time so i left the shop, however i'm now at home and that's exactly where it stopped. on picture 94. i have 1294 pictures. where are they? logged in to icloud.com, cant find them there. i have no mac or ipad or nothing just my iphone. so its not like there anywhere else, i then tried to reset the phone and back up from icloud (after googling) but still.....nothing, same 94 pictures.
how do i get the rest of my pictures (from old iphone) back and on my new iphone? do i need to download ios6 again? then will all my pictures come back? b4 i gave him my old phone my pictures were all on that photo stream, but they haven't come on to this new one why not?
if anyone can help me i'll be truly grateful, i just had a baby and all her new born pic's where on there

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