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

I have iPhone 5.  i have the same problem as well. I am really angry cuz I can't share photos on Fb or any other application, just the recent album where there r like 20 photos from 1500 photos -_-  not just that but also  problems In the notifications bar and the battery is really short life. Wish they fix it

Did you ever figure this question out? i have the same thing but when i go to upload a picture on instagram all of the photos in my photo stream is there but not anywhere else. I want them back in my photo albums. Any suggestions

ALL,

I don't have photostream never cared for it.  I don't know if this has been answered but my issue is that the ALL PHOTOS folder is gone from the PHOTOS app.  The only thing there is recently added.  It's very hard to look for photos by date which is what it is forcing you to do.  How do we get the ALL PHOTOS folder back?  Does anyone know?

Have you read this thread?

camera roll is not more....

Unfortunately, you can't get the camera roll folder back...you have to use the collections, moments,years, etc...however, you can create a new album and manually save your photos to that album as they do only stay in recently added for 30 days.  just give it a name and you can add each section of the collections area that you want by section, but they view like the old camera roll.

This worked for me, sort of. It didn't start loading immediately, so be patient. But be warned, it appears that the Recently Added in iOS 8 Photos does not go as far back as Photostream did. I still have 1000 photos in iPhoto under iCloud on my Mac (Mavericks), but only 240 on my iPhone. Before I turned off My Photo Stream, there were some different photos on my phone than after I turned it back on. I've always Imported everything into iPhoto on my Mac and removed them from my phone (after a computer backup) and looked at what what in Photostream. Originally Photo stream was supposed to hold 500 photos, but before I updated there were 1000, now there are only 240. It is a bit confusing. Apple appears to be in the process of changing how this works. Just import all photos to your computer, back it up, and they will be safe.

I hope someone from Apple is policing this thread.

I SEE THIS AS A MAJOR PROBLEM. I have been a Mac OS user since System 7 and an iOS user since v2. I was thrilled about camera roll, thrilled about photostream, and I think Apple HAD the best photo organization platform out there with iOS 7. I think iOS 8 is a HUGE STEP BACKWARDS. I see what they were trying to do, but this implementation is downright awful. What's wrong with adding an option for "show photostream album" in the settings??? With this implementation, I have no way to know if a photo has been uploaded to Photostream or not. The only real way to know, is to check and see if it shows up on another device. I also have no way to delete photos from Photostream on iOS. I can only do this from Mac OS X now. I have talked to several long time iOS users and none of them are happy about this.

BRING BACK THE PHOTOSTREAM ALBUM!!!

I agree that this is a lame roll out (no pun intended).  I spoke with a nice girl that was supposed to be a level up from Apple Chat, I think they called them Engineers.  She had not heard of Aperture. Say WHAT!!?  The light is on, but nobody is home.

It seems like Apple has larger fires to fight at the moment.

In the long run, I think the simplification might be nice.

It would help if one could see which items are in Photostream on the device and subject to deletion in 30 days. Also, one should be able to establish the album structure of their choice. The new IOS 8 Photo app is useless.  Frustrating.

I can only second your opinion as the lack of view options under iOS 8 is idiotic. If people want to view photos in a basic scroll-up-and-down folder like camera roll they should be able to do so. To firstly promote the Photostream feature as it was done from earlier iOS versions and then to semi-axe it without warning is outright stupid. There is no reason in this world to deprive iOS users from well liked and well used ways of managing and viewing their photos.

Luckily, I still have the full Photostream functionality in iPhoto on my Mac running on Mavericks, but this does´t help thousands of users who are stranded with the new iOS Photo App. Unfortunately iPhoto is no longer available for iOS 8, which would have been fine if the Photo App hand´t been butchered to bits here. How one can call iOS 8 "the best OS ever" when the functionality gets reduced like this, beats me.

One other thing to add... with iOS 7, when I was low on space, I could check to make sure all my current photos were in photostrream (a feature that's been removed), then delete the entire camera roll. Depending on how many pictures were there, this could gain me back a GB of space or more. How do I do this with iOS 8??? It make no differentiation between what's on your phone and what's in the cloud. The only real way to tell if a picture has reached the cloud is to check on another device.

Also, if you take a picture on your phone, then delete it completely before it has a chance to upload to photo stream (keep in mind you don't have a way to know when it's been uploaded), it will never get to your other devices. That's just bad design. They need to have some sort of indicator as to where the picture is stored. Even just a little transparent overlay icon (of a cloud or a camera or both) on each photo would be a good start. If would be even better if you could click and hold on that icon and open the photostream album. As it sits right now, the only way to tell is to try to edit it, if the photo is not on your phone, it will prompt you to download it.

And before anybody asks... yes I already submitted both of these things to Apple. I'm sharing them so others can do the same, or provide their own ideas.

When this happens to me, I was panic because lots of my photos are precious and I don't konw how to recover deleted photos from iPhone.

StefanyDuggan wrote:

 

When this happens to me, I was panic because lots of my photos are precious and I don't konw how to recover deleted photos from iPhone.

Look in the recently deleted items folder

Regarding the photo stream folder disappearing. Someone suggested logging out of iCloud and logging back in. Did that and photo stream folder showed up and started reloading all of the pictures. Problem solved.

You assume everyone has a Mac or PC that they Sync with.  Not very helpful if you don't fit into that category.  Many may simply have an iPhone and iPad only.