Q: Photos Lost Since Updating To iOS8.
SInce updating to iOS8 my wife has only a handful of her photos on her iPad but she has her entire collection (100s) sitting happily on her iPhone.
How can I safely get the photos from her iPhone to her iPad so that both devices have all of them?
MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
Posted on Sep 26, 2014 3:01 AM
The missing photos were taken on the iPhone.
The missing photos were in Photostream.
That is the problem then. The Photo Stream is buffered in iCloud, and iCloud will only store the photos that have been added during the last month. If you disable Photo Stream (for example during reinstalling), only last month's photos can be downloaded from iCloud again. Photo Stream photos need to be saved on the device they are streamed to, see this links: iCloud: Photo Stream FAQ, iCloud: Photo Stream Troubleshooting. To send them again to the iPad your wife could create a shared photo stream, add the missing photos to this stream, and share the stream with herself.
iCloud: iCloud Photo Sharing FAQ
Just in case: If you have not yet enabled "iCloud Drive" on your mobile devices, don't do it, if you need to sync documents to a Mac. This feature will only work for a Mac, if you are running Yosemite and kill the ability to use "documents in the cloud": It cannot be undone.
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Posted on Sep 26, 2014 3:47 AM