The Settings page says that Photos will automatically by sent to Photo Stream when I am connected to Wi-Fi, however I've waited several minutes and don't see them in iPhoto. I believe they haven't been sent to iCloud yet. Is there any way to force them to be synced to iCloud from the iPhone?
IOS – How to force a Photo Stream sync on the iPhone
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Best Answer
Fastest solution (iPhone restart NOT needed!): I've found that if I open Photos on my iDevice after taking a photo, and then (after the spinning icon goes away) open Photos* on my Mac, the photo appears in my photo stream.
Notes:
This is way easier and faster than rebooting or resetting Wi-Fi.
It's also faster and more likely to work than just killing
Photos Agent
and restarting Photos.(Further evidence showing WHY this works: When I open Photos on my iDevice, I see the spinning icon on my iDevice - IFF I've just taken a photo. If I access my photo stream on my Mac‡ without having opened Photos, the new photo is not there.)
*(or iPhoto if you haven't switched to Photos)
‡(such as by clicking Photo Stream under Media in the standard File..Open dialog box in recent versions of MacOS)
Note: Photo Stream only syncs the last 30 days of your photos.
2020 UPDATE: Recently, Photos was changed; when you open it you may need to take an additional step to cause the upload - but if so, you’ll see a prompt about it.