Photos often not uploading to PhotoStream

Lately, Photostream has been acting very strange. More often than not, photos I take on my iPhone won't transfer to Photostream. It's not happening all the time, but definitly most of the time. Anyone else experiencing this?

This is happening to me too, also when I try to save to my camera roll on my iPad it sometimes saves some of my selected pictures and sometimes none atall.

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Some photos were not uploaded to Photostream

Photos taken yesterday evening were not uploaded to Photostream. Automatic upload seems to have resumed today, but only the pictures I took today. Is there a way I can get last year's photos uploaded to Photostream without importing them to a computer?

Nope--sorry. I spent 45 minutes on the phone with an AppleCare rep the other day. He forwarded me a bunch of articles from the Apple website explaining what kinds of images were not compatible with the iPhone. None of that criteria, however, matched my photo.
He also had me clear my iPhone photo cache (sorry, I forget the file's actual name). While I no longer get the error message when syncing, the photos still don't sync.
While the error message just listed one picture, based on the number of photos in the album in iPhoto and the number of photos on my iPhone, it was clear that three pictures weren't syncing, but I wasn't sure what the other two photos were. He suggested trying to determine the other two pictures and then seeing what the similarities were among the three photos.
At that point though I just gave up and wrote off the problem as one I'll live with.

TS3989 new photos are not uploading to photostream

i have a iphone 4s, ipad 2 and a MacPro using iPhoto. Yesterday my devices stopped uploading NEW pictures to PhotoStream. I've tested it by taking pictures with each device and waiting to see if it shows up in photostream. Nothing works. Is still have the old photostream pics, but new pictures are NOT uploading to photostream.

Extra piece of information:
now I shut down the Personal Hotspot, bringing back the iPhone to the "suspected" wi-fi network and the photostream on the iPhone immediately showed the pics I took on the iPad (but not those I took on the iPhone, which are present in the Camera roll, but not on the Photostream). Those pics showed up on the Mac already earlier, thru the Personal Hotspot connection on the iPhone
So it seems that this wi-fi network allows for very good download to the iOS6 devices but for some reasons does not allow the upload to the photostream of the new pics from the iOS6 devices.
On the other hand, if the added pictures is on the Mac, then it is uploaded and immediately shows up on the iPad and iPhone.
To make things even more complex, my girlfriend has iphone 4S and iPad 2 both on iOS6, and for her the photostream works perfect with this wi-fi network... really bizarre.
I consider the issue closed: this network does not like me for some reason, I'll be back to my normal network tomorrow and things will be (hopefully) back to normal.
Thank you again.

Photos will not upload to photostream iphone 4

Photostream was working fine for a while and then my photos taken on the iPhone 4 would not upload. I have been trying to solve this for months. Everything is on that should be and I have followed all of the directions Apple has given to get photostream to work. Additionally, photos from iPad and macbook pro upload just fine. I even turned photostream off and back on on the iPhone 4. It turned all of my pictures into grey boxes that said JPG, but did nothing else. I can't find how to make photostream work again anywhere, please help.

Yes it is linked to wifi. Photos have not been uploading from the device for quite some time. I have followed all of the instructions availible from Apple.

Photos do not upload

I changed the upload folder for photostream (perhaps a mistake) and now photos do not upload. What am I doing wrong?

Mary-
Your issue is different from the one above, in which case it is better to start a new thread.
Iphone:
Open the library you want to delete a photo from.
Click on the trash can icon at the bottom of the screen
Select photos to be deleted
Click on remove at the bottom right of the screen
Confirm Deletion
Browser:
Open the library you want to delete a photo from.
Click on select photos in the menu
Select the photos to deleted by clicking on them. You will see a check appear on those selected.
Click on the trash can icon at the top of the screen
Confirm deletion
Mac:
Open the library you want to delete a photo from.
Select files to deete. If you want more than one, hold the command key down to select additional files
click the delete key on your keyboard
See this FAQ for more file info:
FAQ: File Basics: How do I Upload, Download, Share, and Delete files in Revel?
Pattie

My phone photos are not uploaded automatically to my PC

I am using an iPhone 5 and an iPad Air both running on IOS 8.1. The iCloud version I am using is 4.0.3.56 (latest version at the moment).
iCould used to upload all my new photos to the "PhotoStream" folder in my PC but is not working anymore. I tried to uninstall iCloud and it does works for a moment but not very long. The next day when I took some new photos or someone sent me some new photos, these photos are not uploaded into my PC.
I found a solution on this communities. The solution was like 1 or 2 years ago, asking to install the older version of the iCloud. I have tried it but is not working either. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance !

Hi Kevinmvb,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
The article below may be able to help you with this. It sounds like you may have moved your photos out of the Uploads folder where they need to reside.
iCloud: My Photo Stream troubleshooting
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3989
Cheers,
- Judy

Photos will not upload to iCloud in iPhoto can anyone help?

I am unable to upload photos from my events to my icloud photostream. I have reset the photostream and I still show "uploading X photos" in upper right of iphoto window while in the icloud tab in iphoto. photos will not upload. I am also unable to move pictures into icloud on any of my devices. (iphone 5 & 2nd gen ipad) will appreciate any and all help to cure my photostream problem. Thank you.

Hi,
The set up is quite basic, actually extremely basic. I am just using my mac and an iPad to play notes on and using the installed synths that came with the program.
I have 17 different tracks on this piece of music with some of them using the same noise on multiple tracks to play diffent riffs.
If I try and open a new track with let's say for exame the standard piano. Try to record a part. It plays though the system but will not record even though the timing no is red.
I can send you a screen shot later today if needed. My other optioni think is to copy all of the parts into a new project and start again.
Thanks for your time.

Photo will not upload my pictures from the same camera that always worked in IPhoto. Says "could not be imported (may be unrecognized file type or files may not contain valid data). So how do I do it?

Photo will not upload new photos from same camera that always worked in IPhoto. Says "could not be uploaded )may be unrecognized file type or files may not contain valid data). Help!

Try image capture or a card reader - after the photos are safely on your Mac then use the camera's format command to reformat the memory card
LN

HT4623 photo stream not uploading to windows computer

iO6, photo stream not uploading (via iCloud) from my iPhone 5 to Windows computer. All setting seem to be set to on.

Try a Restart.
Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button for a few seconds until the red "slide to power off" slider appears, and then slide the slider. Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button until the Apple logo appears.
Resetting your settings
You can also try resetting all settings. Settings>General>Reset>Reset All Settings. You will have to enter all of your device settings again.... All of the settings in the settings app will have to be re-entered. You won't lose any data, but it takes time to enter all of the settings again.
Resetting your device
Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button together for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears. Apple recommends this only if you are unable to restart it.
Or if this doesn't work and nobody else on the blog doesn't have a better idea you can contact Apple.
Here is a link to their contacts with most of the information below.
http://www.apple.com/contact/

Photos will not upload to store for purchase?

Photos will not upload to store for purchase?

Gee any help - like what version of iPhoto? What happens? what error messae you get? Any shread of actual information that might let someone assist you
LN

TS3989 My photos from iphone did not upload to photostream

I have installed icloud on my pc with windows vista. I want the icloud to transfer photos from my iphone 4s to pc. The icloud installation seems to have worked but the file photostream in my pictures on my pc has not uploaded any photos. The photostream on my iphone is on? I do not know how to upload the photos, they do not seem to load automatically, even though the setting on my iphone says it will push them automatically. any help would be appreciated.

Photostream only uploads the photos taken (or imported to the device) AFTER you enable Photostream. Photos from prior to Photostream being turned on will not upload. You could just take screenshots of the older photos to create 'new' images, or transfer your photos to your computer manually.
Photostream FAQ: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4486

Photos in photo stream not uploading to PC

The photos in the photo stream on my phone are not uploading to my Windows 7 PC. I have checked the iCloud settings to make sure I am using the same account, which I am. I have checked the upload and download directories but can't find them there. I can see that the photos I take are being sent from the Camera Roll to the Photo Stream album on my phone, but they're not automatically uploading to my PC. I have PhotoStream turned on everywhere it should be turned on. I've even turned it off and reset it, only to have the same set of photos show up, but not the newest ones. I have plugged my phone into my computer to try to view & copy the photos from there, but I can't even see them there. What is happening? Thanks, Joni

I have the same problem. I cloud is turned on on my PC. Photostream is on. I have photos in my photostream on my iphone but nothing appears in my pc, ever

Photo Stream not uploading unless photos app is open

I am having issues with Photo Stream. According to Apple--
"On an iOS device, new photos you take will be automatically uploaded to your Photo Stream when you leave the Camera app and are connected to Wi-Fi. Note: Photo Stream does not push photos over cellular connections."
That is fine BUT I took 20+ pictures with my iPhone, came home and of course connected to my WiFi. None of the photos were uploaded. Several hours later I realized this and opened "photos" then they started uploading. So I hit the home button to exit photos and the upload stopped. Apparently the way this is now it is NOT HAPPENING AUTOMATICALLY I have to sit there with my photos app open and wait until it is finished.
Not Cool! Any Ideas?

I have the same problem. I cloud is turned on on my PC. Photostream is on. I have photos in my photostream on my iphone but nothing appears in my pc, ever

Some photos do not upload to iCloud

I took about 100 photos at an event. It was one had a chance to go to on the spur of the moment, and I only had my iPhone (5s, running 8.1.3). Normally for something like this, I would have used a camera, but my phone was all I had.
My phone is set to upload photos to iCloud. But, 36 hrs later, about 20% (18 or 20....I haven't completed the careful comparison yet) of the photos that are on my phone are NOT in my iCloud (as viewed in iPhoto on my Mac; they're not in my PhotoStream on my iPad either so I'm assuming they really aren't in iCloud).
There is no difference, that I can detect, in the photos that did not make it to iCloud (from the ones that did). I transferred a couple to my Mac by Messaging and they have the same characteristics (in "Info") as the ones that came to the Mac automatically.
I tried selecting a couple of photos that did not make it to iCloud on my phone and, with the little sharing icon (up arrow), I selected them for sharing to My Photo Stream. So far (about an hour) they have NOT appeared in my Photostream view in iPhoto on my Mac.
What gives? I definitely have had this occur occasionally before, with a shot or two. Normally I would use my camera for a bunch of photos like this and wouldn't notice the problem. But in trying to bulk transfer slightly over 100 photos to my Mac, I was HOPING that I could count on iCloud photo sharing to do the job for me. Instead, I have a bigger nuisance trying to inventory my camera and make sure I haven't missed manually transferring one or two to my Mac!!
Suggestions appreciated!

Well, during the now 3 day period since the photos were taken, the phone (and camera app) has been closed, powered off, restarted, etc. a number of times. I was outdoors and not connected to wi-fi during the shoot. But my phone went on a charger and connected to wi-fi right after I got home. Since I took over 100 photos at this event, there was a period near the end of the session when my phone battery was low, but some of the photos missing from photo stream are in the first group that I took that day. The phone never "died" or failed to shoot a photo, so the battery was never critically low.
After doing a better count, I took about 120 snaps total. Only about 85 photos seem to have ever entered photo stream, as counted in iPhoto on my Mac. Roughly the same count of missing photos is seem on my iPad which stayed home the whole time and wasn't involved in this except that it shares my Photostream.
Working on the individual photos on my phone, marking them to share in my Photostream STILL does not get them into it!! So, there are some photos that just will not upload it appears. Once into iPhoto on my Mac, I cannot see any consistent difference in the size or technical characteristics of the ones that did not upload as compared to the ones that did.
I have transferred ALL the photos from this session on my phone by usb cable upload to my Mac, so it's NOT a serious issue at this time. However, it greatly upsets me that a major part of my photo set did NOT get uploaded to iCloud for backup purposes. Nor would they have gotten to my Mac where I archive photos if I hadn't taken the time to upload them by cable.
I seriously doubt that my Photostream limit was approached as I haven't used my iPhone camera for anything other than an occasional snap or two per week for months. As I said, I would usually have used a camera for this photo session had I not been caught out with only my phone. But I only took about 120 photos in this session. And the missing 30 or so photos are scattered all through the photo shoot from beginning to end!
So, it's a mystery to me too! About 20% of the photos I took just never ended up getting to Photostream.

What is going on with iCloud? My photos haven't uploaded to Photostream on my computer and I keep getting an error when I try to log in to my icloud account!

My photos from my iphone 4s have not uploaded to my photostream folder on my laptop in over 2 weeks. Also, when I try to log in to my icloud account, I keep getting an error.
Can anyone explain what is going on and when I can expect my pictures to stream automatically again?

randers4,
Thanks for your suggestion. I started to sign off, but was uncomfortable deleting iCal data from my iMac in case there were old entries not sync'd to iCloud. So I decided to only delete Notes data from my iMac.
I first checked Notes on different devices and saw that they contained more data than my iMac, so I was pretty certain this is what I had in iCloud (another way would be to log on to icloud.com). I then unchecked Notes under System Preferences>iCloud, which prompted me to delete Notes from this Mac. I clicked on Delete from Mac, allowed it to finish, then clicked on the Notes checkbox again, and it sync'd the data from iCloud back to Notes on my iMac.

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