Q: Why are photos being automatically deleted from my photo stream?
I have three iDevices that use the same Apple ID: an iPad 2 running iOS 7, an iPad 4 running iOS 6, and an iPod Touch running iOS 6.
Up until a few weeks ago, they all lived happily together. Whenever I saved a photo on any one of these devices, the photo would show up in the photo stream for all three devices.
However, recently the iPad 2 has been mysteriously showing less and less items in the photo stream. More and more photos disappear from the photo stream every day (only on this iPad; the other iPad and the iPod have all the same photos in the stream.) The iPad 2 now has only 100 photos while the iPad 4 and iPod have 800+ in the stream.
Why am I losing photos from the stream in the iPad 2, and why aren't the other devices behaving the same way? I'm not deleting anything (at least, I'm not deleting the images that are mysteriously absent from the iPad 2), and there are no device storage space issues (plenty of space on each device).
The iPad 2 seems to keep only about a week or two's worth of photos in the stream. Does this have something to do with the versions of iOS that the devices are running? I don't understand why this behavior would have suddenly changed within the last couple weeks, though, since the iPad 2 has been running iOS7 for quite some time. It just seems to be arbitrarily happening now.
How can I make my iPad stop removing photos from its version of the stream? I'm an artist and use all my devices in back and forth fashion, so I need to them to all have the same photo stream content.
MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
Posted on Jan 14, 2015 6:36 PM