Why is the camera roll album gone iOS 8

Thanks. You've captured my sentiments pretty fairly there. I agree.

(I guess I always considered Photostream to be a kind of sharing system that, if one were reasonably astute, could feed into a pretty effective backup system - keep a desktop always on, with iPhoto always running, and Photostream always on, and wherever you take an iPhone photo in the world, if you can get it to Photostream it'll be backed up at home on the hard drive. But it's only a bridge between your device and whatever mechanism you have for capturing and preserving stuff. Which most folks don't bother with, and so they get caught out. Maybe Apple could have made this clearer somehow, perhaps by deleting Photostream-only images off phones after 30 days; it'd take about 31 days for folks to develop a better preservation strategy! But that's water under the bridge now -)

John Dorsey wrote:

Yeah, I get that Photostream is not really a backup system, and that Apple encourages backing up, and that they're not anyone's nanny, and we're all responsible for our own mistakes. All that. It's why I back up all the time and why I (knock on wood) haven't lost important data in 30+ years of personal computing. I can see I'm not going to gain any converts here so I'll quit, saying just one more time that in light of this talk about Apple making these uncomfortable changes to accommodate the persistent wishes of its customers - even when customers have only themselves to blame (e.g. wanting to recover a deleted photo they haven't got backed up anywhere) - it rings hollow to defend Apple's failure to warn its customers that an iOS upgrade *will cause* certain customers to irretrievably lose data on their phones, if they haven't backed it up. In one case Apple is defended for changing the OS to protect customers from commonplace dopey decisions, and in the other Apple is defended from *not* protecting customers commonplace dopey decisions, because - well, why should they.

Complete nonsense, no data is deleted during the upgrade. Where does this twaddle come from?

The twaddle and nonsense is being reported by users whose phones apparently contained versions of photos that arrived via Photostream but are no longer present in the cloud. The upgrade process - as I understand it - wipes cloud data from the phone and then recovers it from the cloud. Photos that were on the phone, but no longer in the cloud, are thereby lost.

If this is not correct and you know where users can locate these photos you'd make many happy by telling them. It's possible too that they're mistaken, that they didn't in fact have the photos they say they do, but there seem to be a lot of reports of this, at least that I've seen fly by my screen, so in the absence of hard information that this is impossible (e.g. some kind of developer note that photos are removed from the phone when they expire from Photostream and the cloud and the phone are identical) I am inclined to credit them.

While the Camera Roll album is still "gone" the issue with apps not being able to see all photos appears to be resolved with the iOS 8.0.1 update. Apps that were previously only able to see "Recent" photos now seem to be able to see all photos on my device.

That said, there are some people reporting issues with iOS 8.0.1, so be careful with updating.

IMHO the delted folder works as a 'trap' for mistakes, like when you select multiple photos's while prunning you hit one by accident.

Not sure if you can disable this option in iOS as you can in Windows

Alan

Last I checked (a few minutes ago), there is no "submit" button:

Dunno why mine is different

BRING BACK CAMERA ROLL!!!!!! Click here http://www.apple.com/feedback and send in the short form.

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MLB19 wrote:

BRING BACK CAMERA ROLL!!!!!!

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AlleyTay wrote:

BRING BACK THE CAMERA ROLL!

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Pete

Nauris wrote:

GRgrgrgrgrgrgrgggg! All day i trying to understand, where is my photos?! PLEASE BRING BACK THE OLD CAMERA ROLL!

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Pete

Tell Apple, not us.

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