Photo stream on iOS 7 selectively uploads photos to iCloud!?
Hi all,
Today I took a dozen of photos with my iPhone 4s running iOS 7 while I was outside (without WiFi connection). When I came back home, and connected to WiFi I exected all photos to be uploaded to iCloud (I have Photo Stream enabled and this worked always fine under iOS 6). After having waited for a couple of hours, I noticed that even one photo hadn't been uploaded. I took a couple of more photos to test it and they were uploaded rather quickly. I even tried to take photos without WiFi connection and as soon as I was connected the test photos were uploaded. So why is Photo Stream uploading photos selectively or does any of you experienced the same problem?
Thanks!
this exact same thing is happening to me.
my 2 iphones, ipad, and mac use the same apple id. i updated one of the iphones (both are iphone 5s) to ios 7 and notices that none of the new photos being taken by this iphone was uploading to the photo stream (although it had no problem displaying photos taken by the other devices on the photo stream).
after reading the above post, i tried the same thing. i used the updated iphone to take some new photos and they quickly appeared on the photostream. but only these new ones do, and not the others i took over yesterday and earlier today.
really confused about this selective uploading to photo stream. please help
thanks!
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I've just done the following test:
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On the Mac, I deleted all photos from iPhoto
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A minute or two later, when no more seemed to coming, I found that 103 of the original 109 were in My Photo Stream. So, strangely, 6 photos were missing
Even stranger, in the “Photos” tab, under “Yesterday” 37 of them could be seen. If I understand this correctly (which I may not), that means 37 of them had been copied from the My Photo Stream to the iPad itself. Am I right? Why only 37?
On the iPad, I added a new Album called Summer 2014
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In iPhoto on the Mac, if I click on the SHARED/iCloud entry on the left, I see all 109 photos, which I think means iPhoto has correctly shared them all, so I suspect the problem is with the iPad.
Yesterday, when I was playing with this, the album allowed 68 photos. I tried deleting one and adding one of the missing photos, but it wouldn't allow this either, so I don't think it's objecting to the number of photos so much as disliking particular ones.
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mlvov,
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How to Delete Entire Photo Stream in iOS 6
Here's how to delete and reset the entire Photo Stream in iOS 6.
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Delete the Photo Stream
Note: You cannot have your device hooked up to a PC or Mac during this procedure.
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Reset Photos App
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as advised in FAQ on iCloud.
I cannot find favourites ... sorry !!!
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HT201077 photo Stream doesnt get selected
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i select it then click on option and doesnt do anything.
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HT201317 Photo stream won't sync all photos that I add to it
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Not only that but now that photo stream is turned on, it shows 3 photo stream albums, 1 called my photo stream that i made from my cpu,1 photo library, and 1 called photo stream. when i turn it off, it just deletes the photo stream album and leaves the others. what do i need to do to do this right? i just want what's necessary and to be able to view my photos on itunes or wherever it's suppose to be because i have way too many photos on my phone that i want to take off.
Photostream will only work with photos newly taken on your iPhone. It will not work with photos already on your iPhone. The idea of Photostream is to allow you to take a photo(s) on your iPhone and a copy will be extended to the Photostream album on the iphone as well as other devices(with Photostream turned on) and your PC (with icloud control panel installed and photostream turned on) so that you can copy those files into your local folder.
If you want to transfer old photos from your iPhone, connect it to your PC and there will be an AUTOPLAY popup window for you to select to import pictures to your local folder.
If the Autoplay window dose not showup, you can go to windows explorer to look for your iPhone and right click to select import pictures: -
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You have to reset the device to Factory Settings in order to restore it from an iCloud backup. You probably want to back it up as is before you do this.
To do the reset after you have backed up the current device, go to Settings>Reset>Reset all Content & Settings. This will erase the device. If you are signed onto iCloud with Find My iPhone turned on, go to Settings>iCloud and scroll to the bottom to sign out of iCloud before you do the reset.
Once you have reset your device, you will set it up like a new phone. When it asks if you want to restore it from an iCloud backup, select the backup you want to restore it from.
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GB -
How can I add photos in the Camera roll to My photo stream if they were taken prior to icloud being activated?
You have a couple of options:
Open the photos one at a time and take a screenshot. This will add a new low resolution copy of the photo to the camera roll, which will then upload to your photo stream;
Email the photos one at a time to yourself, then save the attached photos to your camera roll. This will add a copy of the photo at full resolution to your camera roll and upload to photo stream;
Use an app like PhotoSync, which will allow you to wirelessly transfer copies of all your old photos to your computer all at once. Then delete these photos from your camera roll and use PhotoSync to transfer them back from your computer to your camera roll. These will be the original resolution and will upload to your photo stream. (You need an app like this because iTunes will not transfer photos back to your camera roll, where they must be in order to add to your photo stream.) -
Photo stream doesn't show added photos/videos?
Hello,
My wife made a shared photo stream, and I added some photos and videos to it, from my phone.
On the phone, it works. But if I try to go to the stream on iPhoto (Mountain Lion), it only shows her photos. Do I need Mavericks for it to show my photos too?
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BobMac software - OS -- Not IOS
What version of iPhoto and of the OS do each of you have on your Macs?
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My Photos Stream is no longer adding photos to my PC. How do I get my photos from my iPhone 5 ios 7.0.4 to my PC's Photo Stream?
Hi jmy13,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
Try these steps first if the Photo Stream on your PC is not updating:
you can't connect to the Internet, iCloud Photos will not be able to send or receive updates to My Photo Stream. If necessary, troubleshoot your Internet connection on your PC, Mac, or iOS devices.
Open the iCloud Control Panel and make sure that you're signed in to the same iCloud account that you're using on your other supported devices.
In Windows 8.1, go to the Start screen, click the down arrow in the lower-left corner, then click the iCloud app.
In Windows 8, go to the Start screen, and click the iCloud tile.
In Windows 7, choose Start menu > All Programs > iCloud > iCloud.
Make sure that iCloud Photos or Photo Stream is turned on in the iCloud Control Panel. Click the Options button and make sure that My Photo Stream is turned on.
Close and reopen the iCloud Control Panel.
Restart your computer. This may sound simple, but it does reinitialize your network and application settings and can frequently resolve issues.
You can find the article with these steps here:
iCloud: My Photo Stream troubleshooting
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3989
Regards,
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By syncing them from your iphoto using that article
iOS and iPod: Syncing photos using iTunes - Apple - Support
Or if last 30 days of pictures is enough for you, you just need to sign in to your icloud on the phone and turn photostream "ON". -
After upgrading to Mavericks and iPhoto 9.5 my shared photo streams seem to contain no photos when seen in iPhoto. From iPad the streams are fine. How can I get them to be recognized by iPhoto again?
Disable Photo Stream in the System/iCloud preference pane
and in iPhoto's Photo Share preference pane.
Reboot and reenable both respectively. That should jump start Photo Stream.
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