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Major bugs with iOS5 Photo Editing and Photostream

I am having some major issues with iOS 5 on my iPad 2.

1. I imported iPhone 4 photos using the Camera Connection Kit. I use the Photo Edit (native iOS5) capability and it shows my enhanced, cropped and red-eye corrected photo. I save the photo and the changes are visible in Camera Roll, with no trace of the original. Now, I did find that I can revert back to the original, so obviously Apple is not removing the original. However, the problem is that when sync'ing photos back to the computer (PC) or even uploading photos via Dropbox or any other app, only the original photo gets uploaded/sync'ed. I can understand a third party app (Dropbox) not being able to see the edits, but the import of photos via the standard Windows import also does not get any of the edits made. This defeats the purpose of using the larger real estate of the iPad to import photos from the iPhone - one of the main reasons I purchased the Camera Connection Kit. Even Photostream is limited use (except to just see the pictures, but you cannot do anything!). Now the only way around this was to NOT use the iOS5 Edit feature and instead use Snapstream or Photoshop Express and Save As a new picture in the Camera Roll.

I have not found any workaround for this, so would appreciate if anyone has a solution for this as I was hoping to use my iPad exclusively for my photo editing workflow.

2. iOS5 has a new capability to create Albums on the iPad. However, if I select pictures in my PhotoStream and then Add To... an album, it randomly chooses a subset of the pictures, or sometimes even just the first picture from my PhotoStream and then copies them over to the new Album. At times even if I select just one picture to copy to a new album, it copies a different picture.

The only solution I found for this issue was to first select all the required pictures from the Photostream and Save To Camera Roll; then go to the camera roll and add photos to the albums as needed.

3. New edited photos (via third party apps) that are saved to the Camera Roll sometimes just do not appear in the PhotoStream.

So much for cutting the cord; it seems the best way to reliably cut the cord for photo sync is to still use Dropbox and not use the built-in iOS5 edit feature. Hope Apple issues a fix for these issues soon.

btw, if anyone has a link to logging bugs for iOS5 please let me know. Could not find it on the support site.

Thanks

Posted on Oct 18, 2011 12:40 AM

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iRebound

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Dec 23, 2011 11:59 PM in response to Andrew Chesworth

The fix is to email the edited photo to yourself

Dec 29, 2011 2:11 AM in response to iRebound

Sadly that does not work. It retains the edit, but not the exif data.

rraheja Author

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Jan 3, 2012 2:40 PM in response to rraheja

More issues. On a recent vacation, around 18 of 300+ images did not get on to the PhotoStream. There was nothing in those 18 images to suggest why only they were not uploaded, some were shot during 3G, some shot when WIFI was on, some were shot when there was no data connectivity. Luckily I just happened to compare the number of pictures shot vs on PhotoStream to find this out.

No way am I depending on this to transfer my master files now. I since moved on to PhotoSync, which is actually quite good - it is what PhotoStream should have been in the first place. There are other free apps too but they have limitations in terms of number of images allowed for transfer. I have now turned off iCloud PhotoStream...sadly, since I had a lot of hopes on it in improving my workflow.

Jan 15, 2012 10:50 AM in response to rraheja

My issue is related to this one. I have made changes to photos in iPhoto '11 (ver. 9.2.1) - cropping, color, blemish removal. When I sync the photos to my iPhone 3GS (running iOS5.0.1), the edits and changes DO NOT sync. I only see the original photo. Don't remember this being a problem before I started using iCloud to sync photos.

I have an iMac running Lion OSX 10.7.2

Anybody have any ideas? Apple?

Jan 22, 2012 3:17 PM in response to rraheja

Have been experimenting with this - thought I was going crazy so this thread is nice!
Using iphone 4S - do a very tight crop of a photo in photostream. Save it to the Camera roll and it is auto saved to the stream. The edited version shows up with the tight crop in my ipad 2. It shows up on my PC but does not look edited. I open it in Photoshop and it has the edited version that I did on my iphone. I then tried opening it in Picasa and that does not have the edited version either.

So try whatever editing program you have and see if it opens an edited version or not! Of course since photostream on my PC does NOT show the edited version it is pretty much impossible to keep track. I wonder if you uploaded an edited version to say Craigslist if it would show the edits? Am going to try uploading to one of my blog/websites and see what happens... not much use if you edit and then can't use it online...

zero206

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Dec 16, 2012 12:56 AM in response to rraheja

Hi everyone, i've tried remove red eye & crop the picture then save into Camera roll. When i sync it to my PC, it's not edited BUT when i try send it to another phone through VIBER & copy it from the other phone to PC, i got the edited picture. Hope apple fix it soon :-<

Oct 22, 2013 11:41 AM in response to rraheja

A semi-fix to an apparently old issue:

I edited about 50 photos (which took a while) on my iPhone 5 with iOS7 and uploaded them to FB, only to find out that the edits didn't carry over in the upload. Instead of emailing to yourself or saving each one with another app, you can select which photos you want and choose to send to iCloud. Go into iPhoto on your Mac into your shared Photostreams, and you should see the edited pics, not the originals. This is a quicker workaround...but a workaround really shouldn't be necessary. Seems like there should be a setting in Photos on the phone that just takes care of it for you.

Major bugs with iOS5 Photo Editing and Photostream