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Q: 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 1:00 PM

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  • by mdlinkous,

    mdlinkous mdlinkous Sep 17, 2014 9:12 PM in response to Surf Monkey
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    Sep 17, 2014 9:12 PM in response to Surf Monkey

    WELL SAID! this is exactly how I feel.

     

    what is Apple thinking.

  • by ChampagneCowboy,

    ChampagneCowboy ChampagneCowboy Sep 17, 2014 10:23 PM in response to think.different
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    Sep 17, 2014 10:23 PM in response to think.different

    i hate that it all has to be categorized in moments by time

     

    sometimes i will email myself or imessage a older photo i shot on my camera (not my phone) to post on instagram or something

    and you have to now scroll thru moments to whenever the date is in the EXIF data of the photo, so dumb.

    i dont care about recently added, when you open the camera roll all of the **** at the bottom is RECENTLY ADDED

    like everyone knows its their phone.

     

    go back to camera roll

     

    also what is the option under settings for photos and camera that says "photos tab summarize photos" on or off?

    what does it do?

  • by ChampagneCowboy,

    ChampagneCowboy ChampagneCowboy Sep 17, 2014 10:31 PM in response to think.different
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    Sep 17, 2014 10:31 PM in response to think.different

    i hate that it all has to be categorized in moments by time

     

    sometimes i will email myself or imessage a older photo i shot on my camera (not my phone) to post on instagram or something

    and you have to now scroll thru moments to whenever the date is in the EXIF data of the photo, so dumb.

    i dont care about recently added, when you open the camera roll all of the **** at the bottom is RECENTLY ADDED

    like everyone knows its their phone.

     

    go back to camera roll

     

    also what is the option under settings for photos and camera that says "photos tab summarize photos" on or off?

    what does it do?

  • by mjsciald,

    mjsciald mjsciald Sep 17, 2014 10:54 PM in response to think.different
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    Sep 17, 2014 10:54 PM in response to think.different

    My only solution to this was turning off "My Photo Stream" under "Photos and Camera" in Settings. Now the Recently Added folder acts the same as my Camera Roll did in iOS7. this is still confusing though....

  • by JonnyB,

    JonnyB JonnyB Sep 17, 2014 11:11 PM in response to mjsciald
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    Sep 17, 2014 11:11 PM in response to mjsciald

    iI'm hoping that when the sun comes up Thursday

    morning that Mashable, Cnet, and other Apple watching sites

    will have this explainEd and sorted out

  • by think.different,

    think.different think.different Sep 18, 2014 12:29 AM in response to think.different
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    Sep 18, 2014 12:29 AM in response to think.different

    Something is definitely amiss in photos.

     

    Ignoring the fact the there seems there should be a "My Photo Stream" album which is MIA, I can't believe that Apple sees no need for the camera roll.

     

    Currently even some of their own apps are unable to see all the photos on the device past what is shown in "Recently Added". Settings > Wallpaper for example can't, plus many third party apps like Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc. But Mail, Contacts and Notes can see an "All Photos" album which seems to be the "moments" feed.

  • by Wickedlyelvis,

    Wickedlyelvis Wickedlyelvis Sep 18, 2014 1:18 AM in response to think.different
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    Sep 18, 2014 1:18 AM in response to think.different

    I'm glad that I only tried ios 8 on the iPad 3 (which doesn't have many pictures) before I even thought about downloading it onto my phone. This makes me not even want to consider the iPhone 6. Not with this UI.

  • by Mitch 751,

    Mitch 751 Mitch 751 Sep 18, 2014 1:39 AM in response to think.different
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    Sep 18, 2014 1:39 AM in response to think.different

    With Summarize Photos (Photos Tab ON) "Setting>Photos & Cameras", viewing all the photos under the Moments of Photos is actually not bad

  • by gabecnc78,

    gabecnc78 gabecnc78 Sep 18, 2014 1:41 AM in response to think.different
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    Sep 18, 2014 1:41 AM in response to think.different

    That's true!!! from the apple manual it seems like THERE SHOULD BE A FOLDER CALLED MY PHOTO STREAM.

    But there's not!

    :-/

    this is puzzling!

  • by gabecnc78,

    gabecnc78 gabecnc78 Sep 18, 2014 1:45 AM in response to Surf Monkey
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    Sep 18, 2014 1:45 AM in response to Surf Monkey

    Totally agree with you! TOTALLY!

    It would just be enough if they would let pleple know what is on the device and what is not.

    Apparently now the only way to know if a photo is on the device or is in the stream, it's to go into the single photo and see if there is the possibility to make it as favourite with the HEARTH.

    BUT... when you have thousand photos in your gallery... you cant enter each photo and check! There should be a quicker way to go and see!

  • by gabecnc78,

    gabecnc78 gabecnc78 Sep 18, 2014 1:47 AM in response to ChampagneCowboy
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    Sep 18, 2014 1:47 AM in response to ChampagneCowboy

    Btw, this Recently added folder is very stupid indeed. Everyone knows that the most recently photos are at the bottom!

  • by gabecnc78,

    gabecnc78 gabecnc78 Sep 18, 2014 2:34 AM in response to think.different
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    Sep 18, 2014 2:34 AM in response to think.different

    This is all insane. Apparently, this is what they have in mind for the future. Also as they presented will be for the application on the mac.

    A whole pot full of photos. All together.

    They think that all together is good.

    But it's not.

  • by Shahry,

    Shahry Shahry Sep 18, 2014 7:17 AM in response to think.different
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    Sep 18, 2014 7:17 AM in response to think.different

    We are seeing only few pics in recently added folder in folders .. There is no more camera roll exist .. But u can find ur all pics in photos .. U will have to select every pic one by one and will have to move them in folders by creating folder ..

  • by Shahry,

    Shahry Shahry Sep 18, 2014 7:41 AM in response to think.different
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    Sep 18, 2014 7:41 AM in response to think.different

    Apple has separated photos and albums

    in albums u will find only recent pics

    and in photos u will find all ur camera roll pics with date and locations

  • by bardhlepaja,

    bardhlepaja bardhlepaja Sep 18, 2014 7:45 AM in response to Shahry
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    Sep 18, 2014 7:45 AM in response to Shahry

    this is a good idea but does this need an extra space to create an album with over 200 photos? i mean if there were 200 photos and they get copied to another album, does these copied photos fill that space, hope i was clear , thanks

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