Okay, phew! That’s great to hear. You’re pictures are safe, we just need them to sync to your iPhone :)

On your phone, open your Settings app. Click your iCloud profile at the very top, then click iCloud > Photos. Is “Sync this iPhone” enabled? If not, enable it. And if it IS already enabled, just for good measure go ahead and toggle it off and back on again. Just to be safe.

After checking all that, all you can really do is wait. Especially if you had a lot of photos, this could take awhile. Put your phone on its charger and make sure you’ve got a good connection to your Wi-Fi. It can take hours for the photos to finally finish restoring, but so long as they are definitely there on iCloud, you’re good. You didn’t lose them :)

Aw, heh, thank you :)

Like I mentioned, I do tech support for a living, haha. And I actually really enjoy doing it..! I dunno, it’s just really fun for me to investigate and troubleshoot problems. Plus I like to help people

I would get on your computer and go check iCloud.com. Login and see if your photos are there on the cloud. If they aren’t, you may be out of luck

Did you have them backed up to iCloud or to iTunes? If not, unfortunately your only chance is to look into paying a third party data recovery service. If you go that route, please take care to do your research first. A lot of them are just scams.

NICE hell yea happy to help!

Check out the other reply I just posted to this thread :) I shared a screenshot and some deets about my fave utility apps

Hell yeah man. Here’s a screenshot of my admin folder:

https://preview.redd.it/ymr35u04ha9a1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=91ec5a0ba2e9d1b66c1b4210a6643828ca7c69c9

1. Fing is a network scanner. You can use it to get information about your current internet connection. It can scan your Wi-Fi to detect other devices that are connected to the network, alert you if any unknown devices try to connect, run speed tests, find open ports and security vulnerabilities on your router, and you can use ping and traceroute tools.
2. Usage - System Widgets will tell you all about your phone’s storage breakdown, memory usage, network details, and tons of detailed hardware and software specs about your device. And you can create custom widgets with any of this information!
3. Network Utility is very similar to Fing, but you can also track data sent and received over a monitored period of time.
4. Net Analyzer is yet another network information app. Only new functionality compared to the other ones is its ability to also analyze any connected VPNs
5. System Status has a bunch of fun technical information it’s great. but my favorite thing is the real-time graphs it provides of your phones cpu and memory usage, and network activity.
6. BT Inspector will scan for any nearby Bluetooth devices, which you can then connect to and interrogate to find out information about them
7. CPU-x will give you super detailed technical information about your phone’s hardware, and it has diagnostic tools you can use to check out how your device is performing. it can also clean up memory usage
8. iCharging will give you tons of details about your phone’s battery, and you can use it to run tests to determine the speed and capacity of your chargers
9. Ampere Test, similarly, can test charging speeds. It can also measure the battery usage of your other apps

Pretty cool, right?? :D …. god im such a nerd lmao

Just wanted to say thanks for helping me find another utility app to download, hahaha. I absolutely love hoarding these sorts of utility apps that show me technical details and stats about my device. Had never seen this one before 👍

Okay. Did some reading on Apple’s support discussion forum. You’re not the only one to encounter this problem, and there’s a couple things we can try.

First off, you should try to sign out of your iCloud/Apple ID on your iPhone and then sign back in again.

After that, we would need some help from your dad since he’s the one organizing the iCloud subscription. It sounds like you’ve already had him try to remove you from family sharing and then add you again, right? Like, he used his own account/device to remove you and then sent you another invite? In that case, the next thing to try would be to ask him to completely disable iCloud family sharing for everyone, and then turn it back on again.

Just have him go into his Settings > Family > Subscriptions, select iCloud+ and then click the button the stop sharing it with the family. He can then immediate turn it back on. A few people claimed that this fixed the problem for them. I think it’s worth trying

Very strange! I’m glad you’ve already tried leaving and returning to the family sharing, because that was gonna be the very first thing I suggested trying. So, that does fix it temporarily, but the problem just comes back later. Hmm..

What is your device?

Oh, really? Huh. That’s odd. So no one else in your family sharing has experienced this problem? Only your device?

You say it happens randomly. Is it purely random, or are there any details at all you can give me about when and/or how often this occurs? Does it go back and forth between 5GB and the proper 2TB on its own? Have you gotten any kind of error message or warning in your iCloud settings when the storage goes down and syncing stops?

If you weren’t able to guess, I do tech support for a living, lmao. I wouldn’t mind investigating a little for ya. Just tell me as much as you can, and I’ll see what I can find out

Are you sure there were no problems with your subscription and payment method? That’s only ever happened to me when I didn’t have the funds when it came time for the monthly renewal charge