My Photo Stream makes it really easy for you to share your photos taken by iPhone, iPad or iPod touch or imported photos on your computer across all of your devices. As handy it is, you may find some issues with My Photo Stream every now and then. For example, sometimes photos you take with your iPhone don’t sync and show up on the iPad, or you can’t see any photos in the My Photo Stream album in Photos app on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. How to fix My Photo Stream not working on iOS devices? Here are some tips to fix this problem.
Quick Tips to Fix My Photo Stream Not Working
1. Make Sure You have Enabled My Photo Stream on Your Device
To successfully sync your recently taken photos from one device to other device, you need to make sure you have turned on My Photo Stream on all your devices. You can go to Settings > iCloud > Photos to check it.
2. Make Sure You Have Enough battery on Your Device
My Photo Stream will be disabled temporarily to preserve battery life if your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch is below 20% battery. Therefore, you need you make sure you have more than 20% battery to use My Photo Stream.
3. Close Camera App
Your new photos will be synced to My Photo Stream only when you close the Camera app. So double-click the Home button to check if Camera is still opened, if yes, swipe up to close it.
4. Ensure You have connected you iPhone/iPad/iPod touch to Wi-Fi
Another thing you should pay attention to is that My Photo Stream will automatically upload new photos and send them to all of your iCloud devices only when connected to Wi-Fi. So please make sure you have connected your device to a stable Wi-Fi connection.
5. Sign in with the Same iCloud Account on All Your Devices
Last but not the least, make sure you have signed in iCloud with the same Apple ID if you have multiple accounts.