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Uploading Photos to iCloud Very Slow

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  • 22-05-2017 6:53pm
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    Technique
    Registered Users Posts: 1,385 ✭✭✭


    Ive purchased some icloud space as my iPhone 6 16gb was getting full and i was having to delete stuff. Ive set photos to back up to icloud automatically but it seems very slow. On Friday there were 2255 photos to upload, today there are 2248. Is this normal? My WiFi is slow enough, but I've also got 4g mobile data. Is the lack of free internal memory hindering the upload speed?

    Thanks in advance.


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    jamesd
    Registered Users Posts: 3,441 ✭✭✭jamesd


    If you wifi is slow than I'd say that's the issue, do you leave your phone connected to wifi and charging overnight so it can upload


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    Creamy Goodness
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    Uploads to iCloud will only ever use wifi. I suggest plugging the phone in beside your router. However your broadband speed just might not be good enough and you'll just have to wait for the upload to complete over a couple of nights.


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    Phonicks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 73 ✭✭Phonicks


    Plug the phone into your computer and move your photos across, do this every few weeks

    Seen too many icloud problems


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    RockSalto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 185 ✭✭RockSalto


    Download Google photos. I used it on all my iOS devices. Was using iCloud, but it's a piece of garbage. It's too slow for purpose. Moved everything to Dropbox in the end.

    With Google photo's there's a 'High Quality' option - free but your photos will be compressed. You won't be able to notice it though. They've a really good compression algorithm.

    Then there's the 'Original' option which counts against your 15GB free allocation. If you use up 15GB, you'll have to pay for storage - 20e for 100GB for a year. So better value than iCloud's lower option.


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    Dardania
    Registered Users Posts: 3,612 ✭✭✭Dardania


    Technique wrote: »
    Ive purchased some icloud space as my iPhone 6 16gb was getting full and i was having to delete stuff.  Ive set photos to back up to icloud automatically but it seems very slow. On Friday there were 2255 photos to upload, today there are 2248. Is this normal? My WiFi is slow enough, but I've also got 4g mobile data. Is the lack of free internal memory hindering the upload speed?

    Thanks in advance.
    Creamy Goodness' advice here is good.

    I've also found that if there's a bogey image in the photos (e.g. sometimes a downloaded photo rather than one you take yourself) it can prevent icloud syncing.

    I've used iCloud for years - it works very very well - I trust it completely at this stage, rather than screwing around with local storage, NAS' etc.


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    notahappycamper
    Registered Users Posts: 2,118 ✭✭✭notahappycamper


    Also I think you have to be in photos and have the phone unlocked? Given the amount of photos to upload it might be best to do that?


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    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users Posts: 26,579 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    notahappycamper wrote: »
    Also I think you have to be in photos and have the phone unlocked? Given the amount of photos to upload it might be best to do that?
    You don't. As long as the phone is plugged in and connected to wifi it will upload. You don't need to have the photos app open.

    The same can't be said for other photo apps like google photos which do need you to open the app for it to upload.


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