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ios - 8 where are the 'camera roll' and 'photostream' albums?

I see the ios8 had done away with the "camera roll" and "photostream" albums and replace them with a "recently added" album. Is there any way to get this old functionality back?

All I want is one folder that contains all the photos on my device and another that contains the photos that I'm happy to share across my devices. I would have hoped I could have create some smart albums, but albums seem to have to be curated manually.

I know I can see all my photos with the photos tab, but there are two issue I have with this, #1 the "collections" interface is horrible – I just want a nice grid of photos like in albums – and #2 my photostream photos are merge within them.

I now have no way of telling if I'm deleting a photo from the phone or the photostream, for example when I'm trying to free up space on the phone.

Would turning on the "icloud photo library" feature help? I would rather not use that as I don't want it to waste all my icloud space.

iPhone 5, iOS 7.0.3

Posted on Sep 17, 2014 12:55 PM

109 replies

Oct 16, 2014 10:44 AM in response to think.different

I see 8.1 is out on 20 Oct, let's see what that has to offer us.

Old Toad

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Oct 18, 2014 1:36 PM in response to think.different

It will include the Camera Roll according to Tim Cook and company inlast Thursdays conference. The link will take you to a video of it.

Oct 20, 2014 4:10 PM in response to think.different

To confirm that the 8.1 upgrade does now bring back the two missing albums; Camera Roll, and My Photo Stream – as they worked in iOS7.

You can now once again curate both these album independently of the other, ie if you delete an image from the My Photo Stream it will remain on the Camera Roll and visa-versa.

The only negative is that now the My Photo Stream album still only shows the photos taken since the iOS8 upgrade, even though there are photos still in the stream that visible on non iOS8 devices.

kyte

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Oct 20, 2014 5:06 PM in response to think.different

I decided to import everything in the stream, to iphoto,then delete from the stream and start over. I have not u/g to Yosemite yet (or rather i did, hated it so much, that I downgraded to Mavericks. Though my personal opinion is that Mavericks was an upgrade.)... I'm now going to wait until the real photos app is released. Seriously Apple, what are you on... that needed to come out with Yosemite!

ios - 8 where are the 'camera roll' and 'photostream' albums?