Oh noooo! ... icloud photo library is stuck "updating"

i just updated my imac to OS X 10.10.3.
downloaded over 400G of photos in new PHOTOS app.
chose to use the icloud photo library too.
but none of my photos will upload to icloud photo library.
progress bar just says "updating" and wont budge
yikes. any ideas?
thanks very much!

There's 1.7GB of pictures on the iPad, 5.0GB total on iCloud and 2.6 available. The upload speed is ~5.5MBpS, but all of the photos have been put onto the other device, so I wouldn't think that should be an issue. That said, thank you for the help.

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Hello Welles13,
Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities. iCloud Photo Library beta requires a Wi-Fi connection to upload photos and videos:
iCloud Photo Library beta FAQ - Apple Support
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT6378
When do photos and videos upload to iCloud Photo Library?
When you turn on iCloud Photo Library on your devices, your photos and videos will begin to upload after you connect to the Internet using Wi-Fi. You can see the status on the Photos tab and pause upload for one day from Settings > iCloud > Photos.
Depending on your Internet connection speed, the time it takes for your photos and videos to appear on all of your devices might vary.
Cheers,
Matt M.

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For no apparent reason, on my iPhone 5 (iOS 8.1.2), icloud photo library is stuck at updating 22 pictures to the cloud. I've rebooted twice my device, checked on icloud.com to see if the pictures were there but they are not uploaded their hence they don't show on my iPad Air too. New pict uploads are working from the iPad though but won't sync by to my iPhone 5. So this seems to be a problem on my iPhone 5 only...
How can we fix that?

You shouldn't really lose anything, you were told to back up all your photos when you agreed to join this beta trial.
It would be helpful to know if you do actually have 22 photos yet to be uploaded (shring this type of information, is after all the purpose of participating in a beta program.
My first step would be to turn it off and on again as suggested.

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It was removed from the initial iOS 8 release and demoted to a beta application that is supposed to be included in an iOS 8 update in October. See http://www.macrumors.com/2014/09/12/apple-demotes-icloud-photo-library-beta/.

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Hi VtBoomer,
Lets see if we can clear this up. When you turn on iCloud Photo Library beta, you are essentially switching from a collection of photos that is stored on your iPhone and moving the photos to iCloud. It does actually use iCloud storage when you do this. What this accomplishes is if you have multiple devices, then they will be in sync across all other iOS and your computer. Take a look at the FAQs page below to answer any other questions you may have.
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http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT6378
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Photos for OS X stuck "uploading X items" to iCloud Photo Library

21.5 iMac running OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 (all patches applied)
200GB iCloud Storage with 171GB Free
iPhone 5s running iOS 8.3
When I enabled iCloud Photo Library on my Mac within the New Photos application it uploaded 12,182 out of the 15,125 photos successfully. All 12,182 photos are viewable in iCloud.com and on my iPhone. Photos is stuck "uploading 82 items". I have signed out and back into iCloud on my Mac, rebooted my Mac, rebooted my time capsule, disabled and then re-enable iCloud Photo Library, paused for a day then resumed and left my Mac running for days straight.
iCloud Photo Library works perfectly on my iPhone. When I take a photo it's uploaded to iCloud.com, when it's deleted it's then removed from iCloud.com. Since the Photos application is stuck "uploading" it's not receiving any new photos shot with my iPhone.
Any constructive comments, help or fixes are very welcome.
Thank you

Same here. plenty of storage on iCloud, yet I'm stuck with 500 photos uploaded out of 400 total.
The OS X Photos app is not doing anything and has stopped uploading 2 days ago.
Reboot doesn't help.
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I have 2 iPhones 6Plus's both fully updated. I have enabled them both to use iCloud Photo Library. One has synced up nicely, the other has not pulled any photos down from the cloud and says that it has 2,373 items to upload. Any ideas what could be preventing it? I have tried toggling iCloud Photo Library off and on with no success. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks.

You may not like this solution, but it's the last thing that the apple care support could offer.
Let's say you have a bunch of photos stuck on syncing...
Connect iPhone to a computer via the cable, set iPhone to Airplane mode
Use Photos.app and select your iPhone in the sidebar (enable the sidebar first)
Select the photos you want to import
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Disable airplane mode on the iPhone
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Log out of your iCloud account on the iPhone
Wait till all the photos on the iPhone are deleted as well... delete them manually, also from trash (make sure you have them all in the Photos app on your mac!)
Restart your Phone
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My iCloud photo library is not up loading

my iCloud photo library is not uploading

I think I am one more user that has not been able to successfully upload photos to iCloud Library. I just can't believe Apple released such a bad user experience within a software. No progress bar updating?! no feedback?! app working only when not in background?! hours to upload 4 iphone photos?! no network activity throbber?!
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We could, perhaps, cobble together some solution using sharing to the family library and whatnot, I guess. That may be the only way, but it seems clunky. I will figure it out if I have to.
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I do want my daughter to be able to download apps or updates to existing apps even when she is not with me, but that doesn't seem possible without sharing passwords.
That is indeed not possible. She'll either need to re-acquire all those apps through her own iTunes Store account, you'll have to give her the password to your account, or you'll have to do all the updating for her.
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I really wish I could like iPhoto, but I don't know what in the world it is doing, and by locking me out of the Finder access to the iPhoto folder and doing things like duplicating photos without my asking, I've lost trust in this piece of software.
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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.
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Oh noooo! ... icloud photo library is stuck "updating"

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