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Acquire what to do if photos aren't showing up in My Photograph Stream on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, or Apple Television set.

I don't see photos from My Photo Stream on my iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, or Apple TV

If you turned on My Photo Stream on all of your devices, your last 30 days of photos are available in the My Photo Stream anthology so that you can view or add together them to your library on each device.* If yous recently created your Apple tree ID, My Photograph Stream might not be bachelor. Utilise iCloud Photos to keep your photos and videos in iCloud. Learn more than about iCloud Photos and My Photo Stream.

If you tin can't find your My Photograph Stream images in the Photos app, follow these steps on each of your devices:

iPhone, iPad, or iPod affect

  1. Tap Settings > Wi-Fi on all of your devices. Check that Wi-Fi is on and you lot have an internet connection.
  2. Tap Settings > [your name] > iCloud > Photos. Brand certain Upload to My Photograph Stream is turned on. If you don't see this selection, plough on iCloud Photos to proceed your photos and videos in iCloud instead.
  3. On the device that captured the photo that you're looking for, close the Camera app. (Nothing uploads to My Photo Stream until you do.)
  4. See if your iOS device is below twenty% battery power. If information technology is, My Photograph Stream disables itself temporarily to salvage battery life.

Mac

  1. Brand certain that your Mac is continued to the internet.
  2. From your Mac, choose Apple menu  > Arrangement Preferences, and then click iCloud. Make sure that y'all're signed in with the aforementioned Apple tree ID on all of your supported devices.
  3. Open the Photos app. And then choose Photos > Preferences. Click iCloud (or Photograph Stream).
  4. Brand certain that My Photo Stream is selected. If you don't see this pick, plow on iCloud Photos to keep your photos and videos in iCloud instead.
  5. On the device that captured the photo that you're looking for, close the Camera app. (Nothing uploads to My Photograph Stream until y'all do.)

Apple Idiot box

  1. In Settings > Network > Wi-Fi, check that Wi-Fi is on and you have an internet connection.
  2. In Settings > Accounts > iCloud, check that My Photo Stream is on.
  3. On the device that captured the photograph that you're looking for, close the Camera app. (Nothing uploads to My Photo Stream until you lot practice.) If you still don't meet all of your My Photograph Stream photos, it might exist due to storage chapters on your Apple Television receiver.

* For iCloud to share photos or videos with your other Apple tree devices, you lot demand to sign in to iCloud with the same Apple tree ID on every device.

I encounter different photos in the My Photo Stream album on each of my devices

Your device keeps up to 1,000 photos, even if they're older than 30 days. Photos older than xxx days are removed from iCloud, so depending on when yous enabled My Photograph Stream, your devices might not have the same photos. Due to capacity, your Apple TV might display only your most recent photos.

Follow these steps to delete older photos from My Photo Stream and put your virtually current photos on all of your devices:

  1. If you accept photos in the My Photo Stream album that you want to continue, save them to your device. Then salve copies of your photos and other data.
  2. Turn off My Photo Stream. Hither's how:
    • On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, tap Settings > [your name] > iCloud > Photos and turn off Upload to My Photo Stream.
    • On your Mac with macOS Catalina or later, open the Photos app, then in the menu bar, cull Photos > Preferences. Click iCloud, and turn off My Photograph Stream.
    • On your Apple Idiot box, go to Settings > Accounts > iCloud and plough off Upload to My Photo Stream.
  3. Confirm that you want to Delete Photos.
  4. Turn on My Photo Stream again.
  5. Repeat these steps for each device.

I don't run across my imported photos in My Photo Stream

  1. Make sure that your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac has an agile internet connection.
  2. Bank check if you're using iCloud Photos in the Photos app. If you turned on iCloud Photos, photos from other devices using My Photo Stream won't appear on your device.

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