Why is the camera roll album gone iOS 8

MLB19 wrote:

BRING BACK CAMERA ROLL!!!!!!

Submit your feedback directly to Apple using the appropriate link on the Feedback page:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

I can't believe they would do something this unintelligent. They need to bring back the camera roll and make it possible to disable the Recently Deleted folder.And to top it all, apps can't access all photos anymore, they can only access the "recent photos" album. I love Apple, but this is so not like them. I won't be getting another iPhone if this how it's going to be.

Meg St._Clair wrote:

MLB19 wrote:

BRING BACK CAMERA ROLL!!!!!!

Submit your feedback directly to Apple using the appropriate link on the Feedback page:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

They don't have an option for iOS 8 yet.

Stop shouting. I replied to one of your other posts. You are not addressing Apple here. No one here on the forum can change that.

obsidianspider wrote:

Meg St._Clair wrote:

MLB19 wrote:

BRING BACK CAMERA ROLL!!!!!!

Submit your feedback directly to Apple using the appropriate link on the Feedback page:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

They don't have an option for iOS 8 yet.

So pick something else and explain it in the comments section.

Every release of every iOS or OSX over the years, no matter when or where will always throw up a few people who are not happy with changes. Unless those people are the vast majority or at least representative of a large percentage, then the changes will stay. These posts eventually drop off as most users get used to the changes. If you are not happy you can either direct your scorn at them feedback

or stop using their products.

Cheers

Pete

That's how it works on the desktop, both in Windows (Recycle Bin) and in OS X (Trash). It's also how deleting voicemails has worked on the iPhone from the first day. And it's how deleting e-mails work on any platform; you delete the e-mail and it goes into the trash and then either trash automatically gets emptied (usually after 30 days) or you manually empty the trash. Maybe Apple is just trying to unify the file deletion paradigms?

I am aware. I have since submitted feedback to Apple. I only have one previous post btw so it was only someone that had quoted me or something...

"Other changes in the Photos app are primarily cloud-related. The default Photo Stream functionality has changed in a way that regular people will probably like but that we personally find annoying. iOS 8 does away with the concept of the "camera roll," the album of photos taken locally on the device you're actually holding in your hands. Now iCloud photos and local photos all mix together into one continuous stream.

"Many will like this because it makes all of your stuff available everywhere, and it means you won't have to poke around in different albums to find a picture if you don't remember whether you took it on your iPhone or iPad. If you're taking a few hundred screenshots for something like this review, though, it's a little irritating to get screenshots from multiple devices plus pictures from iPhoto all mixed together. You've got to turn Photo Stream off if you only want to see the stuff that's actually on your device.

"Finally, there's that iCloud Photo Library feature Apple talked up at WWDC, which has made it to the GM build of iOS 8—but only as a disabled-by-default beta version. It's similar to Photo Stream, but it differs in a few key ways. Both offer to sync photos between your various Apple devices using iCloud, but Photo Stream will only save pictures for 30 days or until you upload more than 1,000 photos, whichever happens first. iCloud Photo Library won't delete photos automatically. Photo Stream photos don't count against your iCloud storage space, however, but iCloud Photo Library pictures will. You'll definitely need to pony up for more iCloud storage space if you're anything more than a casual photographer.

"If you still want to use iCloud Photo Library, there's nothing here to stop you. However, that "Beta" tag means "proceed with caution, because we aren't ready to promise that this thing won't eat all your pictures." You're prompted to back up your iPhone's local photo library to your computer before getting started, and you should be extra attentive to performing those kinds of backups for as long as that beta tag applies (we'd look for it to be removed either when Yosemite releases later this year, or when the OS X version of the Photos app comes out early next year)."

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/09/ios-8-thoroughly-reviewed/9/#pics

obsidianspider wrote:

While the lack of an album is one thing, the fact that apps can only choose photos from albums is a problem. There needs to be a way for apps to be able to grab from ALL photos, not just recent ones or manually created albums. Is this a way to force developers to implement PhotoKit for even simple messaging apps? The Apple made "Messages" app has an option above all of the albums for an "All Photos" album, but other apps do not.

After some playing around it seems like some apps (like Instagram) can access all photos, so even though there isn't a Camera Roll album, apps can access them, it's just going to require every app that wants to access your photos to update or be forced to only work with recent photos.

Yeah, I bet we get it back in an 8.x update. I swear, every time there is a major update, they always take away one or two really simple and usable features for the sake of their design philosophy. Last year it was the ability to scale your wallpaper to your exact preference, this year it's being able to view your photos in one album wothout all that date and location nonsense breaking everything up.

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

I Love the new panorama, time-lapse, etc. smart albums but I completely hate how my camera roll is gone! That's absurd! They need to bring that back in the next update.

and when I tried to post a picture on facebook of a photo that wasn't in my recent photos but only in my collection, I couldn't post a thing!

I did that, and I can't share them on twitter or anything. That folder like disappears when I try to share a photo