Photo Stream syncing problem

Photo stream refuses to remove older photos from my iPhone. The iCloud Photo Stream service is supposed to keep photos on your devices for 30 days and then delete them. This works fine in iPhoto on my iMac, where photos duly disappear from the Photo Stream folder one monthe after they were taken. But it does not seem to work on my iPhone, older photos are just stuck there, even after they were removed from iPhoto Stream folder. Right now I have 280 photos in Photo Stream on iPhoto and some 730 in Photo Stream on the iPhone. This is not supposed to be possible. The only way to remove these "stuck photos" is to switch Photo Stream on the iPhone off and on again, foricng it download photos from iCloud anew. But this is hardly a practical solution.
The service works fine in the other sense, ie, photos taken on one device are synchronised and appear on other devices. It is just that, once added to the iPhone, photos are not removed automatically after 30 days.
Anyone having similar problems and / or an idea for a solution?

I understand that. The problem is that the photos stay put on Photo Stream on the iPhone after being removed from Photo Stream in iPhoto. Once a photo reaches it's "due date" it should be removed from iCloud and subsequently from all synchronised devices. This does not happen, it is removed from some but not others. Right now I have 243 photos on iPhoto Stream and 271 in iPhone stream. How come?

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how quickly does photo stream sync for you?

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