iPhone 13 Pro Majority of photos not uploading to iCloud

[AppleTooPlus]

Hi Lunadw. I let it sit for several days but there was no change in the "Unable to Upload" folder in my Photos on my MBP. Additionally, I noticed after the iCloud Photos syncing process was complete that my Mac Photos library had fewer items in it overall by what might have been a couple of thousand. So I turned off iCloud Photos on my MBP, deleted all the photos in the iCloud web portal, and replaced my MBP Photos library with a backup. I haven't tried turning it back on since I have no reason to believe anything would function differently right now.

 

[karinjojo]

Having a bit of an issue. I've upgraded from the iPhone 11 Pro to the 13 Pro, same storage size for both, 512GB. I upgraded my iCloud plan recently to 2TB so that I can upload all of my photos. When I did this, it started syncing ok. I woke up this morning expecting to see everything uploaded but was surprised that out of 26,000 photos and videos, 10,000 were in the 'unable to upload' album and it had actually only uploaded around 5,000.

I've done everything that's been suggested on the internet, toggling iCloud photos, sign out of iCloud and signing back in, restarting the device etc. Each time, it will start to upload again but the majority of the photos end up in the 'unable to upload' album. This is even the case for photos taken today, they go straight into that album. No issues with space on either the phone or iCloud. The phone is connected to power, it's on Wifi and can connect to iCloud.

I also bought the new iPad mini on launch day and it does not have any of these issues, everything uploads absolutely fine.

The annoying thing is, there are no error logs or warnings to try to work through, they simply just don't upload.

Has anyone experienced this issue?

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Hey! I have the exact same problem. 22500 photos on that "unable to upload" folder and also upgraded to 2T icloud storage. I´m connected to a network with high internet speed and I have available more than 73GB of available space in the physical device. I went through the forum thread but still not clear how the issue was ressolved. Can you point out how it was fixed? Thanks!!!

 

[AppleTooPlus]

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a reliable solution that doesn't involve a lot of heavy lifting. I finally gave up in hopes that there might be some bug in either Monterey or Photos (on the client or server side) that might be fixed at some point in the future. It seems like the only methods people have had success with are to either a) follow Apple's instructions and export all those "unable to upload" photos/videos as unmodified originals and then reimport them into Photos (and those new imports should then upload), or b) duplicate all of those "unable to upload" photos/videos (and the duplicates should upload).

I'd be very happy to stand corrected if anyone has found another solution to force an upload of those "unable to upload" items!

 

[AppleTooPlus]

For anyone still searching for the answer to the "Unable to Upload" iCloud Photos issue, I found an extremely easy solution that worked for me.

I tried selecting a single photo in that folder and hit CMD-R (to rotate it) and then quickly hit CMD-Z to undo it. The edit seems to trigger some change in the metadata that made the file almost instantly disappear from the "Unable to Upload" folder and promptly upload to iCloud. AMAZING.

After testing that a few times, I started doing it in bulk, selecting chunks of photos, rotating them and quickly undoing it before they had the chance to disappear. Depending on your timing, you may end up with some files accidentally rotated. But it seems like the most efficient way to reliably fix the issue. I'm so happy!

 

[fatTribble]

For anyone still searching for the answer to the "Unable to Upload" iCloud Photos issue, I found an extremely easy solution that worked for me.

I tried selecting a single photo in that folder and hit CMD-R (to rotate it) and then quickly hit CMD-Z to undo it. The edit seems to trigger some change in the metadata that made the file almost instantly disappear from the "Unable to Upload" folder and promptly upload to iCloud. AMAZING.

After testing that a few times, I started doing it in bulk, selecting chunks of photos, rotating them and quickly undoing it before they had the chance to disappear. Depending on your timing, you may end up with some files accidentally rotated. But it seems like the most efficient way to reliably fix the issue. I'm so happy!

I think I did something similar when I had the issue years ago. I think I added a keyword to all of them then removed the keyword (on my MacBook). A caption would likely work too.