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move photo's from camera roll to photo stream

I am confused. I have a number of photo's in Camera Roll. They apparantly do not back up to iCloud as part of Photo Stream. Is there a way to move them from Camera Roll to Photo Stream so they will be available to my other devices, or do I have to manually copy them to my desktop to make them available? If the latter, what is the best process for this?

iPhone 4, iOS 5.1, Sprint

Posted on Apr 17, 2012 8:00 AM

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Posted on May 7, 2012 2:27 PM

Work around: first view the pic on your camera roll, then snapshot it by using home and sleep button at same time. Your pic is at photo stream now :)

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Sep 14, 2013 3:18 AM in response to LDMartin1959

Help

My iPhone4s will not download photos to PC.Something with the connection it doesn't recognize the phone. I am getting new phone and want to save my existing photos.I hoped to put on iCloud somehow to save the existing photos and have them available to new phone but seems to only work with new photos. Any ideas how to save the old photos to iCloud or any other method to save to PC wireless transfer doesnt seem to work.So slow.have over 3000 to download

Oct 29, 2013 11:57 AM in response to LDMartin1959

Why doesn't Apple just make it TOTALLY simple by selecting ANY photo in ANY album and then click on it to copy or save to Photo Stream??? Why is it so hard to be able to do that?? All these 'back door' options are just a lot of extra steps. Why does it only work with pcitures you take after you turn on Photo Stream?? This should be all you have to do: go to Photos, click on Camera Roll (or any album or photo for that matter), select it, choose the options button, click on Add To or Copy To or something along those lines and then be able to select Photo Stream. It's not that difficult. Come on Apple?!?!?!? Really? Make it work!

Nov 2, 2013 3:18 AM in response to Red_Bunches

Red_Bunches wrote:


Oh, it's easier than that. Connect your iPhone to your PC via the USB charging cable. Open PC Folders and double click on the iPhone. Just keep double clicking through all the sub folders and hey presto - there's your Camera Roll photos.


Yes it is possible on Windows to view your camera roll photos by doing this:

1.) Click start

2.) Click computer

3.) Scroll down if needed to find "Portable Devices" and your phone should be listed there

4.) Click on your phone icon then continue to click until you reach more than 1 folder.

5.) One of the folders has every picture the other might have 1 or 2 or a video taken.


Red_Bunches wrote:


I don't have any films, music or anything else on my phone right now, but I presume they'll show up too.

However this statement is false. It will not show music, videos, apps, or anything except for photos/video taken as stated in the steps above.

move photo's from camera roll to photo stream

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