Okay, this is driving me nuts, possibly chewing through my battery, and it's not the type of thing I can bring myself to just ignore. Since updating to iOS 26.2, the Photos app has been stuck "Syncing 2 items...". There is seemingly no way to find out which 2 files are stuck without manually inspecting the status of 132,000 photos (an intentional choice by Apple rather than a bug...), and it's not anything that I've recently saved. I'm not even sure if these photos actually exist, or if they're some half-duplicated corrupted zombie files that wouldn't appear on the interface.
I've tried restarting my phone, toggling iCloud Photos on and off, and signing out of iCloud completely, singing back in and waiting 2 days for it to "Restoring from iCloud..." my entire Photos library -- only to discover that it still got stuck once it got down to 2 items. I'd rather not reinstall the entire operating system right now, but it's looking like that might be my only option and possibly still not fix this. My Photos library is also synced to my Mac (also on 26.2), yet my Mac doesn't have the same problem. The devices in question are an iPhone 15 Pro Max and an M4 Max 16" MacBook Pro.
Has anyone else experienced this or been able to fix it?
I've tried restarting my phone, toggling iCloud Photos on and off, and signing out of iCloud completely, singing back in and waiting 2 days for it to "Restoring from iCloud..." my entire Photos library -- only to discover that it still got stuck once it got down to 2 items. I'd rather not reinstall the entire operating system right now, but it's looking like that might be my only option and possibly still not fix this. My Photos library is also synced to my Mac (also on 26.2), yet my Mac doesn't have the same problem. The devices in question are an iPhone 15 Pro Max and an M4 Max 16" MacBook Pro.
Has anyone else experienced this or been able to fix it?