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

Hello,

 

I just upgraded my iPhone 5 to iOS 8. I only had about 20 photos stored on my phone, and about 100 photos in my Photostream. After updating to iOS 8, I cannot find any of these photos that were in my Photostream, and cannot even find that folder on my iPhone.

 

Were these photos deleted?

 

Thank you,

Dan

iPhone 5, iOS 8

Posted on Sep 17, 2014 1:33 PM

by Sebasinho,Solvedanswer
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A:

I turned photostream OFF and then ON again and the pictures are starting to reappear  under my "Recently Added" folder. What this means is that the "Photostream" folder disappeared and now all the iCloud/Streamed pictures will be under the "Recently Added" folder.

Posted on Sep 17, 2014 3:14 PM

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  • by Sebasinho,Solvedanswer

    Sebasinho Sebasinho Sep 17, 2014 3:14 PM in response to wright.88
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    Sep 17, 2014 3:14 PM in response to wright.88

    I turned photostream OFF and then ON again and the pictures are starting to reappear  under my "Recently Added" folder. What this means is that the "Photostream" folder disappeared and now all the iCloud/Streamed pictures will be under the "Recently Added" folder.

  • by product_user,

    product_user product_user Sep 17, 2014 3:19 PM in response to wright.88
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    Sep 17, 2014 3:19 PM in response to wright.88

    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.

  • by normanfrommiramar,

    normanfrommiramar normanfrommiramar Sep 17, 2014 3:38 PM in response to Sebasinho
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    Sep 17, 2014 3:38 PM in response to Sebasinho

    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.

  • by wright.88,

    wright.88 wright.88 Sep 17, 2014 3:54 PM in response to Sebasinho
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    Sep 17, 2014 3:54 PM in response to Sebasinho

    This worked for me, as well. I turned Photo Stream OFF and then back ON, and my Photo Stream photos started appearing in my Recently Added folder in my Photos.

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Sep 17, 2014 4:00 PM in response to wright.88
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    Sep 17, 2014 4:00 PM in response to wright.88

    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

  • by Firemen15,

    Firemen15 Firemen15 Sep 17, 2014 4:44 PM in response to Old Toad
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    Sep 17, 2014 4:44 PM in response to Old Toad

    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

  • by dyeisag,

    dyeisag dyeisag Sep 17, 2014 8:32 PM in response to wright.88
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    Sep 17, 2014 8:32 PM in response to wright.88

    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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  • by Luz1978,

    Luz1978 Luz1978 Sep 17, 2014 5:04 PM in response to Firemen15
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    Sep 17, 2014 5:04 PM in response to Firemen15

    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!

  • by Manchester United Fan,

    Manchester United Fan Manchester United Fan Sep 17, 2014 6:11 PM in response to Luz1978
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    Sep 17, 2014 6:11 PM in response to Luz1978

    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?

  • by Jeamesfigh,

    Jeamesfigh Sep 17, 2014 6:35 PM in response to wright.88
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    Sep 17, 2014 6:35 PM in response to wright.88

    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.

  • by It_is_Michelle,

    It_is_Michelle It_is_Michelle Sep 17, 2014 6:36 PM in response to Luz1978
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    Sep 17, 2014 6:36 PM in response to Luz1978

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

  • by mp007,

    mp007 mp007 Sep 17, 2014 7:00 PM in response to It_is_Michelle
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    Sep 17, 2014 7:00 PM in response to It_is_Michelle

    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'?

  • by Chris CA,

    Chris CA Chris CA Sep 17, 2014 7:36 PM in response to Manchester United Fan
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    Sep 17, 2014 7:36 PM in response to Manchester United Fan

    Manchester United Fan wrote:

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

    They aren’t.

  • by wright.88,

    wright.88 wright.88 Sep 17, 2014 8:26 PM in response to mp007
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    Sep 17, 2014 8:26 PM in response to mp007

    Yes, that is correct. Your photos are stored (for 30 days) in your Photo Stream via iCloud. If your Photo Stream photos aren't showing up in your iPhone after the update to iOS 8, you can turn off Photo Stream (you will be prompted to DELETE any iCloud pictures stored in the device, which isn't a problem since they are backed up in your iCloud). Then, turn Photo Stream back on, and your Photo Stream photos should begin to trickle into the Recently Added folder of your Photos App.

  • by Sebasinho,

    Sebasinho Sebasinho Sep 17, 2014 8:30 PM in response to wright.88
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    Sep 17, 2014 8:30 PM in response to wright.88

    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.

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