chet-nyc
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Q: Photos are a catastrophe

Thankfully every photo that is or was on my iPhone is on my computer.

 

After 24 hours, I love the iPhone 6 and iOS 8 seems fine.  But the transition with photo albums is nothing short of a total, unmitigated disaster.  First, I don't care what anyone says, I am missing photos and videos that were on my phone.

 

Trying to move photos to the phone from my iMac has worked, then not worked, then created the same photo three or four times.  There are six photos that are no where to be found on the phone, but iPhoto says they've been imported.

 

Why did someone try to reinvent the wheel?

 

I have photos that say they are in one place, when they are actually in two different places.  They will have a date from when the photo was edited and not the actual date the photo was taken.  I delete photos only to find they have reappeared- often in several different spots.

 

The organization should be simple- the way it was in iOS 7-  a Camera Roll for photos taken by the phone; a Photo Stream for everything you are sharing between phone, iCloud, and other devices; and individual albums for organization.  That's it. Simple and to the point.

 

What we have now is a mess. It's like an old Kodak processing lab exploded and everyone's photos are all mixed up.

 

PUT BACK THE OLD SYSTEM FOR PHOTO ALBUMS.

iPhone 6, iOS 8

Posted on Sep 20, 2014 5:58 PM

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  • by pedro ramon,

    pedro ramon pedro ramon Sep 21, 2014 11:04 AM in response to chet-nyc
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    Mac OS X
    Sep 21, 2014 11:04 AM in response to chet-nyc

    I totally agree with you.

     

    I found this link :

     

    Migrating from iPhoto for iOS to Photos on iOS 8

     

    It is also clearly said that: "Photo Books, Web Journals, and Slideshows are converted into regular albums in Photos. Text and layouts are not preserved. "


    I am not anymore able to access the web Journals I created which are still published...

     

    iPhotos was a lot better (except location which disappeared).

     

    I hope that the photo version for Yosemite won"t be the same mess...I will wait before upgrading.

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Sep 21, 2014 11:07 AM in response to chet-nyc
    Level 10 (141,304 points)
    Mac OS X
    Sep 21, 2014 11:07 AM in response to chet-nyc

    Your photos are still on your phone.  With iOS 8 there is no My Photo Stream or Camera Roll any more.  The MPS has been replaced with the Recent Activity album.

     

    The CR is replaced by the Collections mode.  The closest we can get to the Camera Roll is to turn off the Summarize Photos feature in the Settings/Photos & Camera pane and view the photos in the Collections/Moments window.

     

    iOS8collectionssummerize.png

     

    The photos will be in chronological order when scrolled up from the bottom of the window.

     

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    The Recent Activity album is showing the photos added in the last 30 days going back to 8/20 (today being 9/18).  In iPhoto on a Mac the My Photo Stream is showing more like 31 days, 8/19 to today, 8/20. It must be how the two devices calculate the last 30 days.

     

    WARNING:  If you use iTunes to sync photos between your iPhone or iPad and your Mac do not activate the iCloud Drive. Doing so will kill the capability of using iTunes to sync with your mobile device and disable Documents & Data syncing for your iCloud account on OS X Mavericks and earlier Macs, as well as iOS 7 and earlier devices.

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  • by bprice,

    bprice bprice Oct 16, 2014 6:19 PM in response to chet-nyc
    Level 1 (4 points)
    iPhone
    Oct 16, 2014 6:19 PM in response to chet-nyc

    chet you are spot-on.   Apple took something that they NAILED in the initial iPhones, offering the best smartphone camera experience, and has overcomplicated it to the point of failure.  All this iCloud nonsense should simply be an OPTION for people to use, or not.  Personally, I have not used ANY of it and that has mostly kept me problem free.  Alas, for some reason iPhoto 9.5.x when importing from iOS 8 using USB sync, seems to import only the ORIGINAL photos, so that any edits made on my iPhone are lost.  Sort of defeats the purpose of all the nifty new editing features in iOS 8 Photos app.   On the other hand, in previous artilcels Apple has stated the edits are simply XMP metadata, so perhaps iPhoto *is* importing the edited version, but just not displaying?  Not sure.  I agree, though, that something which used to be easy is now ridiculously difficult.