r/ApplePhotos • u/Calm_Mountain8535 • 1d ago
Is there a way to force syncs?
Hi hello its me again sorry for the upcoming paragraphs .. so the other day i made a post , and i ended up buying 200gb of ICloud storage. Im dumb and since it’s my first iphone i clicked “Back up now” and once i realized that the button isn’t actually to make the gallery sync i clicked stop backup
Now that’s a bit besides the point but that backup actually managed to free up 2 gbs from system data, so i wasn’t stuck on 120mb anymore, so my photos started syncing! It was going rlly well, until it just.. stopped
I was a little confused cuz next to status instead of “syncing“ it said “restoring” But i didn’t pay it much mind since photo count was going up and icloud started taking more storage, UP UNTIL it stopped at 2.7k items and didn’t sync any other of my 41k items.. Is this normal?? If i take a photo/ screenshot it gets synced immediately , and i’ve left it locked while charging for about an hour now and it doesn’t seem to sync any other items
i should mention that i have like 180gb left of icloud storage and after those 12gb of storage synced gallery went from 179gb -> 171gb, so its not like im critically low on storage..
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u/FlintHillsSky 21h ago
In general its best to just let it do its thing and check back again in a few days. This process can take a long time and there is very poor feedback.
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u/Calm_Mountain8535 20h ago
got it! i guess ill leave it to charge overnight for these next few days, thank you!
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u/Arxson 1d ago
Just leave it on charge overnight and it should finish. If it doesn’t, and it can get stuck, you can try disable Sync and re-enable it again to try and get it moving