Where did photostream and Cameraroll go in iOS 8?

THANK YOU!!! That works for me.

Correct this took place on my end as well. i had deleted a whole bunch of piks before the ios 8 install. Now recently added only showed 30 days worth of pictures from my camera roll which i assume is like Photostream. The weird part of it is is that i had turned off photo stream and turned it back on. 4 pictures were back added in both collections and recently added. Those were the left over pics that were not deleted from my photo stream that carried over within the 30 days i believe, and when i deleted those four pictures they were never added in the recently deleted because they were photo streamed piks just like if you would originally before delete a photo stream they would be long gone. The worst part now is when you take a pik you have no option of deleting from camera roll and leaving it in photostream like before. a lot of individuals are also highly confused on what is the recently added folder. I have been pulling my hair off since the update and performing testing.

BRING BACK CAMERA ROLL APPLE LIKE C'MON REALLY? WHAT WAS THE POINT IN GETTING RID OF IT? "COLLECTIONS" is NOT A CONVENIENT WAY OF LOOKING FOR OLD PHOTOS

Appears to now be under "Recently Added". I was able to tag photos from there and add to an existing album. It works the same just no photo stream.

The submit feedback button is missing on mine

I am upset about this too. I used camera roll a lot. And yes, they are in "Collections" but I've never used collections and don't particularly care for it either. I don't necessarily know when I took a picture so it's easier for me to find it under Camera Roll. Also, the Collections categories are not even accurate and some are way off. They show certain pictures that I took in a town and at a time I know I was nowhere near at that time! There's no way those pictures could have come from that area, so how did Apple associate that? Who knows, can't edit it. Bring back Camera Roll!

I went through my "Collections", beginning at the date I got my first iPhone. If you burrow down to the single photo view, you will either see, or not see, a heart icon at the bottom. If you see it, the picture was in your Camera Roll and is present on your phone. If not, it's Photostreamed or synced from an iPhoto album. Click the heart and the photo will be added to a "Favorites" album. When you have swiped through all the photos in your Collection, tagging all those with hearts visible, at the end you'll have a "Favorites" album that is exactly the same as the Camera Roll you had when you upgraded from iOS 7 (plus any photos you've taken since).

This system take some time to set up, and will require more real-time maintenance going forward. Also I don't think it solves the problem of local deletions also deleting the Photostream version, but! on the plus side it restores the handy collection of curated photos, neatly displayed, that many of us were storing in Camera Roll.

Personally, I was already aware of the heart distinction at the single level, but if you can't see at a glance then it's a terrible system for huge amounts of photos.

I have been accruing photos/pictures/screenshots on my device since my iPhone 3gs days and have amassed over 5000 pictures.

I should trim it down a bit, but I like having all of those picture local on my phone.

So, any method that requires looking at an individual picture is pretty much worthless and Apple really should have given us better.

I'm not saying that your information isn't good to know, I'm just saying that such any workaround that requires looking at single photos just doesn't scale to thousands of pictures.

Personally, I think we should all tell apple how displeased we are with their terrible changes at https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html as I plan to do bi-weekly.

It might not fix anything, but then they'll at least be aware that people are really displeased with the change.

Though, that page only shows iOS up to 7.1.2 currently. I don't know if there is a better feedback page.

I understand why they got rid of the separated views. Clearly they are trying to either cut down on space used in iCloud or to try to move us to paid storage, but this is a pretty shady and consumer unfriendly way to go about it. They could have just lowered it to 500 if they really wanted to save on storage. I'd complain about that too, but I'd get over that pretty quickly and at least that wouldn't keep me from updating my devices.

Personally, I'm keeping all of my devices pre ios8/yosemite until they fix this.

If they don't then, I guess I'll upgrade when my 5s or iPad 4 are 4 years old and out of support, but not a day sooner.

I'm pretty much with you, koneketron. I only had about 500 photos to cull through (I've been trying! to keep the collection small) and so it wasn't too much headache. And now it's done. But a thousand, or 5000 - no thanks.

Oh, incidentally I just learned that iPhoto for iOS doesn't work - at all - in iOS 8. A little head's up there too would've been nice!

BTW, did anyone else notice that videos kept in camera roll also disappeared? I can't find these anywhere (including in photostream on an iOS7 device, because my understanding was that videos were always kept locally).

Adam Cao wrote:

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

Ha ha... and if you're expecting to find your iCloud photos in iCloud Drive on your Mac, then you're going to be very disappointed.

I have found a way to view something close to Camera Roll. If you go to your Camera app then click on a picture preview in the lower left corner the picture will come up. But more importantly an option called "All Photos" appears in the upper left. Click on it and you can scroll through all of your photos. They are still labeled by date and location, but at least they are all together. Hope this helps. 🙂

It's a shame Apple don't have a guide to help us through these changes, but thankfully another website does... http://www.imore.com/yes-camera-roll-gone-ios-8-heres-where-it-went-and-why

This Is very Upsetting- it looks like not only has Photo stream changed but the whole policy around it too. I would have expected better warning about this from Apple.

Same here- Try a different browser or just hover your mouse pointer to the right of the "policy" in blue at bottom of the form- it looks like the submit button has gone invisible for some reason.