Photostream folder disappeared in iOS 8, along with all my photos in that folder. Please help!

I had/have this same issue. To go even further into the issue, the "hidden" photos still take up space on your phone.

To check this go to: Settings>General>Usage> (Storage) Managed Storage. In that list it showed my photostream was 109MB. Yet, I did not have any other photos on my phone other than my Stream photo. However, those photos did/do show up in iPhoto >shared Cloud on my Mac. Since I didn't want to waste 109MBs on my iPhone I went into iCloud (in settings on iPhone) turned off Photos. This cleared out the 109MB of "hidden photos". Next, I turned it back on, took a pic to see if it would show back up. While the new photo did "sync" to iCloud (on my Mac), the iCloud directory still does not show up on my iphone.

Very strange.

do not go by that rule, recall if you deleted piks from your photo stream they would not delete from your camera roll of course. i just deleted a few piks on recently added folder and knocked them out my photo album(collection Moments). This is not photo stream i am confused.

It appears the Recent Activity album is the new Camera Roll and My Photo Stream rolled into one. All you your pictures can be seen in the Years/Collections/Moments areas (which is somewhat clumsy to use).

Be sure to report your problems, concerns and feature requests to Apple via http://www.apple.com/feedback/icloud.html and http://www.apple.com/feedback/iPhone.html

Just got off the phone with apples engineer manger and it fixed my photo issue, if you photos were backed up then go to settings icloud turn off photostream then turn it back on and go to you photos app and it should start loading your photos you had backedup. Hope this help and please the information on. Thank you

All my pictures are gone! "iTunes back up" clearly did not back up my pictures. As I was trying to update to the new iOS, towards the end, it stated that there was an error, and I needed to restore my iPhone....

Can someone help us out here?

I don't use iCloud to back up my things, and my iPhoto does not have any recent photos of mine....

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So when it said this will delete all shared photos form your iPhone, you pressed yes?! Then turned it back on?

I have them all on my one drive app, just hate saying yes to questions like that!

If 'My Photostream' and 'Camera Roll' are now one folder (Recently Added). How do we know what photos are stored on the device, and what photos are stored in iCloud? Why do they make this so confusing?

I have the same issue, but luckily I have recovered all my lost photos. Here is how I did http://www.any-data-recovery.com/iphone-data/top-3-ways-to-recover-iphone-photos -after-ios-8-update.html I hope it helps you too.

yes, I did. It does take a while for the photos to start coming back, but they do come back.

so just to confirm. When you shut photostream off you press 'yes' to confirm DELETE.

Then when you turn ON again, you don't lose all those old photos and they start dumping into the 'Recently Added'?

Manchester United Fan wrote:

If 'My Photostream' and 'Camera Roll' are now one folder (Recently Added).

They aren’t.

So, any pictures taken 30 days or more will not be loaded back on to the Recently Added folder? Right? I have no issues as I did download all of them to iPhoto prior to syncing, but just checking.

If they aren't, how do I delete a photo just from my iPhone (locally) WITHOUT deleting it from the "Photostream" or whatever it is called now?
Actually you can't as far as I figured that out till now.

Not really an issue for me with 64GB-iPhone but my Mom only has a 16GB one.

In iOS7 she deleted the photos she took every now and then after they were uploaded to the photostream to gain back the storage on her device - how do you do that now? It seems, now it's kind of an "all or nothing" - having the photos locally AND in the cloud or having them neither here nor there... 😟