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Where did photostream and Cameraroll go in iOS 8?

I can't seem to find my photostream or Camera roll albums in iPhone 5 and iPad Air running iOS 8, in addition, the All imported album on iPad, which is the accumulated total images imported to the iPad through the camera connection kit, is now gone, as well.


I have enabled iCloud Drive, but I cannot work out how to use it, can anyone help?


The biggest frustration is actually the missing photostream and camera roll

iPhone 5, iOS 7

Posted on Sep 17, 2014 3:07 PM

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Posted on Sep 17, 2014 3:22 PM

Looks like they were lumped in under "collections."

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Sep 17, 2014 10:41 PM in response to Adam Cao

I also want a return of at least photo stream so I can see which photos are on the cloud and be able to delete the photos from there.

I will /not/ be updating my iPad or iPhone until it's added back in.

I have over 5000 photos and that moments garbage has way too much white space


I sent the following to apple in their feedback form which admittedly is a bit coarse but it upsets me that they'd remove something so basic:


Please add camera roll (and if using it ) photo stream back.

I will not update the rest of my devices while those are missing.

I don't know what kind of shameless cash grab that is to get us to pay you monthly rental fees for our photos, but it's disgusting.


Not all of my devices can go onto ios8, so, I plan on using the photo stream as long as it can be used.


I can't even tell which photos are on the device and which are on the cloud. Nor can I remove it from one spot and leave it on the other. That's garbage. You guys did an awful, shamefully bad job on ios8 photos. It's the ONLY reason I'm still on ios7 on my phone.


Seriously bad job.

Shame on apple for releasing this.

Sep 18, 2014 6:22 AM in response to Skydiver119

It's always the same, why miss-improve something that's working perfect. Yeah, reducing iCloud space. I'm wondering why I only hear from WhatsApp chat backup problems. With WhatsApp you now ONLY can get to the recent photos, no access to Moments, at least on my device. Without the workaround (and I refuse to create a Camera Roll folder and maintain it!) you're stuck to few photos. I'm awaiting Millions of angry WhatsApp users ...

Sep 18, 2014 7:45 AM in response to ShoshTrvls

TThis is my understanding,


Phoro stream is being phased out by icloud photo librsry. When you take a picture it is still sent to photo stream but in order to access it, you need OS X Mavericks, ( iPhoto ) or ios 7 to access it. What Apple seems to do now is it wants to put every single picture you ever taken, and put it in icloud photo library.

The disadvatnage here is you need to pay for more icloud , between 99 cents to $20 a month. Once the pictures are put in icloud library they are deleted from your ios device. Photos that are not synced to iPhoto are not purged from your iOS device.


to access photos stored on icloud photo library you need an ios 8 device,.


photo stream only holds 1000 pictures. And anything over a thousand is deleted from apples servers and there is no way to get that picture back when apple deletes it.


somehow, apple feels that iphoto library is better

Sep 18, 2014 7:43 AM in response to rigormortis

Photos that were/are in your photostream (and not on your phone or iPad) are not accessible from any device running iOS8. My workaround to make sure that I have access on iOS8 to all my currently-existing photostream photos (because I don't regularly download the "keepers" to a hard drive, so I still need to go through them and decide which ones to save -- and I'm assuming many of you are in the same boat) was to do the following:


1. On a device that is still running iOS7 (hopefully you still have one of those), create a new Shared Album

2. Share the album with yourself

3. Upload all 1,000 of your photostream photos to the Shared Album (you can do this easily by sharting from your photostream using the select all option).


In a couple of hours, you should have access to all your past photostream photos on your iOS8 device.

Sep 18, 2014 7:59 AM in response to rigormortis

I honestly don't know how many photos can be in a shared album. My work-around is intended just to freeze photostream so that you can choose what to save and delete before you completely lose access to it. As I mentioned, my general practice is, every few months, go into photostream and save to a hard drive the photos I want to keep so that I don't lose them when they "rotate off" of photostream. Right now, you don't have access to any photos that were not in your camera roll, shared stream, or somewhere else except from a device running iOS7.

Where did photostream and Cameraroll go in iOS 8?

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