Shared Photo Stream Size wrong

[Mcrumors David]

Hi

I have 20 Shared Photo Streams on my personal iPhone.

The size is a cs. 300KB (Kilobytes). I have completely reset the iPhone to iOS 9.1 and set it up as new iPhone just to be sure, after a few hours the capacity decreased by a good 10GB while having the "shared" tab open in Photos -> so the Photos did download (not all! which is another problem).

I have confirmed this on the iPad at my work and included a screenshot from it as well as from my iPhone.
The iPad at work has 1 Shared Photo Stream of 50 photos so the size is for sure more than 8KB!

Do you also have this problem?

 

[iphonedude2008]

Hi

I have 20 Shared Photo Streams on my personal iPhone.

The size is a cs. 300KB (Kilobytes). I have completely reset the iPhone to iOS 9.1 and set it up as new iPhone just to be sure, after a few hours the capacity decreased by a good 10GB while having the "shared" tab open in Photos -> so the Photos did download (not all! which is another problem).

I have confirmed this on the iPad at my work and included a screenshot from it as well as from my iPhone.
The iPad at work has 1 Shared Photo Stream of 50 photos so the size is for sure more than 8KB!

Do you also have this problem?

Aren't shared photo streams saved to the cloud? I think that file is just the stream's information file, not the photos themselves.

 

[Mcrumors David]

Aren't shared photo streams saved to the cloud? I think that file is just the stream's information file, not the photos themselves.

Well no, they are also! in the cloud. When I am in airplane mode (as an example) I am able to browse through shared photos no problem, so they must be downloaded locally.

 

[iphonedude2008]

Well no, they are also! in the cloud. When I am in airplane mode (as an example) I am able to browse through shared photos no problem, so they must be downloaded locally.

If you can view them on airplane mode, whats the problem? Its probably just saved in a cache.

 

[Paco II]

I believe shared photo streams act like iCloud Photo Library in that they don't all download automatically.

 

[Mcrumors David]

I believe shared photo streams act like iCloud Photo Library in that they don't all download automatically.

Might be true, however that still does not explain the size showing "kilobytes". Also, if my iPhone downloaded the shared photo streams (at least the photos I look at) then as what do they show up in "Storage" if not in Photos?

 

[Paco II]

So I understand, what action did you take to make it download your shared photo stream photos to your phone?

 

[iphonedude2008]

Might be true, however that still does not explain the size showing "kilobytes". Also, if my iPhone downloaded the shared photo streams (at least the photos I look at) then as what do they show up in "Storage" if not in Photos?

They show up as kilobyte because thats the config file for the stream, not any photos. The photos are saved to a cache that is deleted in low storage events, so the iPhone doesn't reveal the size or location.

 

[Mcrumors David]

They show up as kilobyte because thats the config file for the stream, not any photos. The photos are saved to a cache that is deleted in low storage events, so the iPhone doesn't reveal the size or location.

Ok, that might be. Fact is that in iOS 8 all shared photostreams were viewable offline on my iPhone, now in iOS 9 that is not the case anymore. So that makes it cumbersome to look at fotos on the go (meaning: using mobile data like crazy). If that is the case it makes the Shared photo stream feature - which I have been using since day 1 - worthless to me (us)

 

[Mcrumors David]

So I understand, what action did you take to make it download your shared photo stream photos to your phone?

I simply would click on 1 foto and then swipe through a few hundred, that makes them download. On iOS 8 they stayed locally meaning when I am in the plane (for example, not having service) I could enjoy all the fotos that were shared with or by me. Now in iOS 9 they seem to be stored only temporarily and delete from that space when I restart the phone or do not use the Photos app for a while