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

Also very upset. The new view is TERRIBLE. There are 3 people here with me and all 3 have just updated and we are all angry with the new photo view. Hope Apple is reading these and making some sort of plans to fix it. With the short time iOS has been released (literally a couple hours) there are several websites and posts with people very angry about this. If this stays the same its goodbye iPhone for me.

I think Recently Added means (if you have PS "on" - recently added from any device. Not sure how many images "live" in Recently Added. There is also a "recently deleted" folder to show an "audit trail" of what has been deleted from any device. Ill have to play with this on my PC, phone, and ipad to see how it works.

BTW - There is still an icloud/photos folder on my PC - not sure what it is talking to or how it fits with these other things.

Apple could have explained this better - much better.

This whole "beta" feature thing is news to me and most....I have no clue how to get to it...turn it off etc

On another note..I tried icloud drive.....it has Less functionality than DropBox V1.0 - its horrible - you can only upload files - not FOLDERS....diffewrent thread for that

Say more about what you mean by "Photo View" -

Not having access to the camera roll. Having to sort through a myriad of tags, and dates, or the clunky slow loading map view.

Here is a new twist....scrolling through pix in the Recently Added album. One pic has the "heart" to make it a favorite, another picture does NOT have it !! The ones that do NOT have the heart - when you click on edit...a popup says This photo is not editable. Do you want to duplicate it and edit a copy?" This must have something to do with where the image is NOW, where it came from etc.

They got a lot of explaining to do

I think Recently Added means (if you have PS "on" - recently added from any device. Not sure how many images "live" in Recently Added. There is also a "recently deleted" folder to show an "audit trail" of what has been deleted from any device. Ill have to play with this on my PC, phone, and ipad to see how it works.

"Recently Added" behaves like the Camera Roll in many ways:

That is what the manual says: (http://help.apple.com/ipad/8/#/iPadf8dcf211)

All photos added to your Recently Added album—including screenshots and photos saved from email, for example—appear in My Photo Stream.

Photos added to My Photo Stream on your other devices appear in your Recently Added album on iPad. iOS devices can keep up to 1000 of your most recent photos in My Photo Stream;

Leonie - thanks...but please tell me WHERE I can find the "My PhotoStream" album?

Are you saying that the "photos" tab and the "recently added" album are the photostream now?

It looks like it.  But it may be a glitch and not intended. The documentation talks about the Photo Stream like it were still an album, that can be viewed and edited. On my macs I am still seeing a My Photo Stream album. On the iPad and iPod is the only place I am seeing photos from the Photo Streaming the "Recent" album and in Photos view.

I agree that this is an awful - and unexpected - change.  Please go to https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html and let Apple know what you think about it - our complaining about it only here may make us feel a little better but it won't help change anything!

What I can't seem to understand is where are the pics that are stored on my device? I can't distinguish between local pics and photstream?

When I take a pic, is it stored on my device or on iCloud?

I want each device to have "their own" pics and then the capability of Looking at the photostream from all devices.

if someone can explain this new concept, please do so. Maybe I am just too old school to comprehend what is happening.

This whole change is a HUGE problem. The camera roll is supposed to show images taken with or saved by THAT device. Mixing those images with photos from iCloud is a major mistake from an interface perspective. As a photographer this causes a major problem for me. First, I don't necessarily want every photo I made moving up to the cloud by default. Under this new system I have to either send everything up to the cloud or nothing up to the cloud. Not acceptable. Second, by losing the distinction between images taken with or saved on the device I lose the ability to manage the storage on that device and to determine what photos were made where. I use a bunch of different hardware to make photos, so they're NOT all "created equal" as Apple seems to want me to think they are. I need to know which were made by the iPhone I have in my hand and which were made by the camera around my neck. Removing the camera roll and mixing all the photos together removes the ability to do this. Ultimately this system numbs out the whole process of trying to organize images from various devices and makes it FAR harder to manage and sort photos unless you ONLY use an iPhone to make them and are comfortable having Apple house a copy on their servers. I'm a professional photographer working with copyrighted images. The LAST thing I want to do is have every one of my photos automatically upload to Apple's cloud.

This has to be changed. It's a massive screw-up. Bringing iCloud Albums back online will NOT fix it. We need the Camera Roll back and we need a CLEAR distinction between LOCAL photos and iCloud uploaded ones. We should be able to tell what device made a photo. All photos are NOT created equal, Apple.

I also lost my photo albums "Camera Roll" and "Photostream" and got the lame "Recently Added" and the hidden "Collections".  I do not like this at all, and I feel Apple did not consider the users and how we share photos with our phones.  I want it restored as soon as Apple can get it done (tomorroe?).