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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 18, 2014 5:49 PM in response to Adam Cao

Just my two cents ,hate the fact that the camera roll is gone due mostly to the fact that all my photo editors don't

utilize the collections function they look in albums for photos not in commands from ios to get to the collections.

So now I have a copy of all photos and videos in a album named all so I can navigate to it through the photo app wich likely eats up more memory

thanks.

edit. I stand corrected just tried a couple of photo apps and found the all photos shows up when searchin, it didn't do that this morning hu, cool I'm happy again.

Sep 19, 2014 5:59 AM in response to Adam Cao

Apple's changes to how iOS8 on the iPhone handles photos really *****. I can't post pics older than 30 days to Facebook, Twitter or Instagram now. It only allows me to post photos more recent than 30 days. I tried creating a new album on my phone for the older photos, but it doesn't show up when I try posting a photo to Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.

Sep 19, 2014 6:02 AM in response to Adam Cao

So "recently Added" on my iPad contains photos "photostreamed" from another ios device, as well as photos added on the iPad. These all seem to appear in iPhoto under My Photostream.

It used to be that you could delete from Camera Roll and photos stayed in My Photostream.

NSnow if you have My Photostream turned on in Settings, deleting from Recently Added removes it from MyPhotostream. Wonder what happens when I turn off My Photostream.

i did it, and what's left is the old Camera Roll. Turned back on, Photostreamed pics return.

Sep 19, 2014 7:50 AM in response to Adam Cao

For those of you participating on other boards about this topic, you should also remind those people that they should use the apple feedback page as well. I wasn't on my computer and didn't have a lot of time when looking at one of the articles, but didn't see anyone pointing that out on whatever page it was. All I saw was people complaining about the change which is good as it shows to us that that there are many unsatisfied customers, but complaining then sending feedback to apple would be more meaningful.


Though, at this point, I think almost all of us know where the photos went (they're still on the device), that we have to use the grossly inferior moments collection, that we cannot delete photos from the cloud only if they are on the device without keeping an ios7 device around, that we cannot delete a physical copy and leave the photo stream photo behind at all, creating an album that requires constant maintenance is the only workaround for not using the awful moments view (unless copying all of your photos into a new app), and that apple's decision stinks. I'm not sure if the internet needs more articles explaining that your pictures are still there and can be found under the terrible moments tab. I figured out all of these (except the third party apps) on my own during the beta 5 release of ios8, and I think most customers would eventually come to the same realization.


Fortunately for me, ios7 was still being signed; so, I reverted to ios7. I even moved my iPad to ios7.1.2 the last day (probably the last hour as I got the 8.0 notification shortly after) it was being signed. It's too bad as I really enjoyed ios8. It seemed like a hundred good little steps forward, but that last step was into a catapult and catapulted iOS a mile backward. Photos was a total deal breaker and I had ios8 on my phone for only a week before I reverted.


You'd think if apple wanted people to use their product, they'd not make them have to come up with a workaround. When your customers are coming up with a workaround, you've failed at some aspect of your job.

Sep 19, 2014 8:13 AM in response to Adam Cao

iOS 8 photo ***** in some ways!

The fact is that I think iOS 8 / OS X Yosemite iCould Photo Library doesn't exist yet. It's still using Photostream.

I think we have to wait for the Mac version of Photo early 2015.

Well I disabled Photostream on all devices including Mac.

I took pictures and import them to iPhoto using USB cable. After importing I delete pictures in the camera roll using iPhoto.

And I use iTunes to sync photos.

It's old fashion for sure. But I really know where exactly my photos are.

Sep 19, 2014 8:17 AM in response to Adam Cao

Also, I was thinking. . .

You know what would still suck, but would also be acceptable for many people?

LET US DECIDE WHAT "RECENT" IS.

I have photos dating back to 2004 somehow, recent is NOT a week or a month, recent is at least a year.

Just have a slider or drop down selection box that goes from 1 day to 1 week to 1 year to 5 years to forever.

You can probably safely set the forever date point to the unix epoch.

I won't complain about not seeing photos from 1969. I promise, Apple.


It's such trivial fix, Apple could literally do this in a day, maybe even a couple of hours.

1) Add recent length drop down menu in settings for photo.

2) Fetch value from settings to find cutoff date.

3) Use that instead of a hard coded value.

4) Done.


This would satisfy many people who simply hate using moments pretty quickly.

Sure we'd still have the issue of cloud vs local storage, but this would probably make a decent percentage of the people complaining happier.

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