Where did photostream and Cameraroll go in iOS 8?

I don't know what's going on here but I keep writing a long post and Apple tells me it has content in it that is prohibited. So quick overview. No photo stream on devices (8.02) to allow me to delete them from the stream. In iPhoto there is now a link to 'iCloud' where "photo stream" used to be - but this doesn't show all the photos that are in the stream. When I use the iCloud photos as a screensaver to my AppleTV I see pictures that I deleted ages ago, So how do I get into the online catalog to delete the junky pictures I don't want?

Turn off Photostream in your Apple TV, reboot the Apple TV, the turn on Photostream on the Apple TV. Also check to see that your Apple TV is updated currently.

Monday new iOS 8.1 update Camera roll is back. Bsydd uk

Yep, Apple listens when a significant number of users want something!

The Photo Steam folder is not coming back -- BUT -- the "Camera Roll" folder is coming back with iOS 8.1 ... being released on Monday!

WELL THAT's GOOD 2 KNOW ... thx

I had to clear out my camera roll to free up space for the d. update, and going back to finish the job I can't see the difference - which are on my phone and which (ex-photo stream) are in the cloud.

Well - I guess I can by date .... but we could have had more info

and vive dropbox !

Kind of arbitrary part of the update that wasn't previously well and clearly informed from Apple. In my "old" photo stream album I had many photos, safely stored as it should be, that are gone now. Any chance to recover those photos?

Thanks!

The only thing about your "storing" pictures in Photostream is that it was never set up for that purpose or intended for storage of any kind. It was a "sharing mechanism" to make the "sharing" of some recent photos easier between devices. It was never permanent, it was never backed up and it was never "storage". If you were using it for that purpose (of "storage") you were using it in a TOTALLY WRONG WAY. It was merely an ACCIDENT that you were able to use it that way.

THEREFORE, Apple only transferred the functionality of a "sharing methodology" into "iCloud Photo Library" ... which does happen to be PERMANENT STORAGE (which Photostream never was), plus having the "sharing" capability.

Of course, there is a WARNING to all who are trying out "iCloud Photo Library" today ... and that is ... that it's currently only a "beta" offering, thus you can only use it as a veta service ... meaning that you are only testing it right now as a beta tester and nothing more!

May be Apple managers want us to migrate to another cloud services, like Dropbox, where there are no need for updates that deletes your "old" photostream pics... It's well known that Apple encourages users to update the operating system. When we made the iOS 8 update, it wasn't clear that it would delete our "photostream" album and merge our photos into collections, erasing the safe copies we kept in the iCloud service offered by Apple. Besides, it should be optional to download files in our Apple devices instead of having them automatically updated – may be we would like manage how save storage space or decide what to have in the cloud and in the devices...

The main lesson: keep copies of everything in pen drives and don't have so much hope in "amazing" OS updates.

Or use common sense and backup your data. 😉

Pete

I don't know what's going on here but I keep writing a long post and Apple tells me it has content in it that is prohibited. So quick overview.

I suspect you ran into the auto logout "feature" of these forums. Unless you do something every thirty minutes you get logged out. The forum software waits to tell you this as long as it can to keep you in suspense 😉.

What you need to do is open some other tab or window and do something every once in awhile. You can automate this by using an auto reload program. I use firefox and reload every.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/reloadevery/

Camera roll now back in ios 8.1 Bsydd uk

Hi, there!
Thank you for your answer, Star Traveler!

It was a very straight forward clear one. Probably I should payed more attention to that long and little type agreements we use to click automatically – as we ever trust in Apple products (since the 90s) – where there must be a longer explanation of the iCloud "sharing mechanism" service than the one you are giving us now.

I love Apple and I am very grateful to all Apple team for the great tools that I can use to develop my work. But, between friends, it could be more clear to users that updating to iOS 8 imply in losing the old "photostream" album from previous version.

May be, in a near future, users would be able to decide what useful stuff to update in the operating systems and what to keep from older versions... (Like in new cars: we like new powerful engines, connectivity, automation, less noise and less pollution, but we still rely one rubber wheels...)

Best regards!

II'm guessing people realize Camera Roll is just a renamed Recently Added. Delete from there, and it's gone from Photostream on all devices.

No, Camera Roll is NOT like the previous album, Recently Added, in iOS 8.02! You are telling people the wrong thing. "Recently Added" only contained your photos from the last 30 days. Camera Roll on the other hand, contains ALL the photos on your iOS device, just like it did on iOS 7.

Camera Roll is simply ANOTHER VIEW of the exact same thing that is in tthe "Photos" tab (at the bottom). Camera Roll's "view" is in the order of it being added, while "Photos" presents the view by the date the photo was produced (Camera Roll by the order it was imported onto iPad). Essentially "Camera Roll" and "Photos" contain the very same photos except for how they are presented to you!

Again ... "Recently Added" is NOT the same thing as "Camera Roll"!