iOS Photos app doesn’t sync photos instantly, or even after a few hours. It only does it at night (I assume), or at least after a few hours. Every time I go on a trip, click photos, and open Photos 1-2 hrs later, the photos haven’t synced. I have to click “sync now” every single time. I’m always afraid of losing my photos in case I lose my phone during the trip.
Furthermore, I have a new iPhone 15 pro, and the phone is never in low power mode. Battery is 77% right now, battery health is 97%, network is 5G LTE, still doesn’t sync. .
What can be wrong?
I really miss Google Photos from Android. It used to be instant.
Is it “optimizing battery” every time or do you also get “optimizing system performance?”
@sgtaylor5 is right; it doesn’t really have a solution. Everyone is dealing with it in the last year. Maybe try keeping your phone cooler when you’re out and it’s possible to manage that.
Never seen that message ever. Always “optimizing battery”.
My phone was actually pretty cold and only 2–3 apps in-memory.
I’m debating providing Google Photos access to “All Photos” . Android is just so much better in many many ways. I’d have moved to android, if mac worked great with it
Hmm. If you only see the battery message, something sounds bugged, as if another service is making it think a bigger update is always pending than what’s actually there. Shared With You is the only service feeding into photos that comes to mind, though.
Since you prefer Google Photos overall, reverting to that seems easiest. Absolutely safe to give it your photos access especially since you already did that back on Android.
It’s definitely gotten worse in recent years. The only thing I have found helps is to go to that bit you have shown and just leave the app open at that spot for a while.
I’ve even had cases where the phone is at nearly 100% battery and is on strong wifi at home and it does not sync. It almost never syncs on its own within what I term a reasonable timeframe.
These days if I need a photo quickly on the Mac I will AirDrop the darned thing.
iCloud sync in general seems “challenging”. I recently went “all in” on my use of iCloud and I’m mystified by the long delays, often on WiFI. I too often Airdrop photos, files and voice memos to my Mac because I don’t have all day to wait for them to appear.
Shared albums are another source of unreliability. They take a long time to sync and, last time I shared with my wife, a bunch of photos from her phone just never made it into the shared album. I didn’t realise until I was preparing a presentation based on them!
Oh, I know how challenging iCloud Drive can be. 843 days without it working on one of my devices (a topic I have covered many times here).
Don’t get me started on Shared Albums. More like shared frustration. They can’t even do most of what regular albums can do, which is not exactly a high bar!
Some days I think Tim, Craig, Eddy & co must live very simple lives, or they would surely have to experience all the **** we do!
My wife can’t access iCloud notes on her phone despite it being turned on (and off, and on, and off, and on) and despite her being able to collaborate on notes I share with her via iCloud.
Thanks for starting this thread. Now, I realize I’m NOT (necessarily) so inept while setting up/using Photos and iCloud. How can iCloud (and Photos) possibly be so bad after all these years……
I have Google Photos installed on my iPhone and sync to both Apple and Google. And AFAIK Google Photos has the same features on iOS as it does on Android:
I don’t think iCloud cares what you say about it. It’s like having your boss’s child as one of your employees. Some days their work may be good, some days they don’t even show up. Either way there is nothing you can do about it.
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. Android is just so much better in many many ways. I’d have moved to android, if mac worked great with it