Why is the camera roll album gone iOS 8

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Why is the camera roll album gone iOS 8

Updated to iOS 8 and the camera roll album is now gone, and all you have is recently added photos and an album for deleted photos which I think completely defeats the purpose of deleting photos. To see the rest of your photos, you have to go to memories or collections or something like that and have to scroll through extremely messy date stamped albums then click on them and it takes you to a map that takes forever to load then you have to zoom in to find the picture you want. This is probably the dumbest thing I have ever seen come from Apple so far. Bring back the old camera roll album and don't force us to use photo stream or iCloud sharing photos or whatever it may be. I want the ability to simply see all of my pictures in one place and scroll through them and if I want them on my Mac I will plug up my phone and sync it. Until then, I'm going to try to go back to ios7. Also after the update my not abused iPhone 5 with 32gig memory is much slower, the apps fade in and out much less smoothly, added more apps from apple that I don't want nor can I delete, and made it ignorantly hard to go through your photos. Very disappointed

iPhone 5, iOS 8

Posted on Sep 17, 2014 2:23 PM

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Sep 17, 2014 2:30 PM in response to jarrod136

Totally agree with you my first though was all of them were going to be able to be accessed through icloud drive. i also dislike the collection stamp based finding. I want camera roll back.

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Sep 17, 2014 2:31 PM in response to jarrod136

I absolutely agree with you. I was enjoying the update until I opened my photos and now I am highly reconsidering getting a new iPhone. I currently have the 5S but I will not buy a new iPhone if I have to use the "collections". Why on earth did Apple think that removing Camera Roll would be a good idea? Just horrible.

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Sep 17, 2014 2:39 PM in response to jarrod136

I 100% agree with you, especially the "Recently Deleted" folder that I am unable to delete. If I delete something, I wanted to delete it and not have to see it again. I really just want camera roll back.

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chadPFC

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Sep 17, 2014 2:39 PM in response to nathan0536

I'm not a fan either, yet, but I think they plan on you pressing 'favourite' on every photo you want to keep handy which will in essence become the camera roll album. That way you won't get a camera roll album full of some photos you want to keep forever and some you just forgot to delete...
Just a thought, but it MAY become a good thing...

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chadPFC

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Sep 17, 2014 2:40 PM in response to MaxximusPrime

You can go in to that folder, and delete them from the album and then they are gone forever.

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Sep 17, 2014 2:48 PM in response to chadPFC

So you're telling me that instead of deleting my photos in one folder and being done with it, I now have to delete it once, then go to another folder and delete it again? Thank you for enlightening me. Sure is an efficient way of deleting things.

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chadPFC

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Sep 17, 2014 2:52 PM in response to MaxximusPrime

That's only something I've just learned, don't shoot the messenger!
By the looks of it, you can leave them and they will auto delete after 30 days anyway, with a little countdown of 'days left' before deleting on each photo.

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Sep 17, 2014 3:06 PM in response to chadPFC

Also angry with this. HATE the new view. Give us the camera roll back!

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Answer 9

Sep 17, 2014 3:16 PM in response to jarrod136

also noticed were is the photo stream folder is it the recently added ??? photo stream folder does not show

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Akib35

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Sep 17, 2014 3:17 PM in response to jarrod136

They need to bring the old camera roll album back and make an option to hide the "Panorama", "Slow Mo", and "Recently Added" albums

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Sep 17, 2014 3:22 PM in response to jarrod136

Also, my photostream and my camera roll mix together in that stupid collection view. So I have two versions of every photo in that jumbled mess.

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jarrod136 Author

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Sep 17, 2014 3:31 PM in response to nathan0536

agreed, I will not buy the new iPhone if this is how the photos and camera are going to be handled. You would think one of the highest grossing and most intelligent electronics company would have seen how terrible of an idea this was during their many months of development. Hopefully this will be seen along with others who feel the same and apple can give us the camera roll album back, thats seriously all I want in my pictures. I don't want to know when I took it, or where, or have pictures organized by these criterion, or several albums to hold other useless stuff and copies, we just need the camera roll.

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MLB19

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Sep 17, 2014 3:46 PM in response to jarrod136

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

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ChrisJ4203

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Sep 17, 2014 3:39 PM in response to MLB19

You are addressing fellow users here, not Apple. If you want to tell them, then go the feedback page HERE. Then click on the appropriate link.

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Answer 15

Sep 17, 2014 3:40 PM in response to jarrod136

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.

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