Where did photostream and Cameraroll go in iOS 8?

The easiest way is to turn on the iCloud Drive backup for your photos. But you can also use the followings:

1. Google Drive (15 Gb)

2. Flickr (1 TB space)

3. Copy.com (15GB + 5GB if you go here https://copy.com?r=eTA0s1)

4. OneDrive

5. Streamnation

All of them have iOS App and feature backup from camera roll (though now that 3rd party app cannot see camera roll, I'm not sure what's happening, but at least you can do it manually).

Hope this help,

Chris

I can confirm that Moments can take more than 1000 photos.

Hi Chris

I would be interested if you find a limit of 1000 on moments. I certainly have a limit as you can see from the picture above.

I will investigate the above options... more out of interest than need as I offload onto the Mac using image capture well before I reach the 1000 limit!!

Do you use one of these apps above? Wouldnt it be useful if idiot proof instructions were available somewhere.

Thanks

Great that you dont have this limit. So why is it different to me. I have iPhone 5, iPad Air and Mac. All have photostream turned on.

In Mavericks there is a local copy of the Photostream (with a limit of 1000 I guess.. not that Ive ever checked). I wonder how they will implement the photos app so that the moments transfer? I hope there is a good user guide somewhere.

The local copy of Photostream in Mavericks in the iPhoto library is unlimited and permanently (well, until the library gets corrupted). photostreams are shown by month.

This discussion really leads to the issue of how do we really save all these photos for the futue? Like all those albums past generations made.

Julian,

I've tried them all, that's why I can list them. I did plan to write a post about them in my moblivious.com blog but I haven't got around it yet.

Chris

Julian,

How many photos you have in Recently Added?

Chris

Hi Chris

Yesterday as I added photos using the camera the moments and recently added were both limited to 1000. I loaded 8.0.2 yesterday and now as I add photos the number increments by one in each. So this morning I'm able to add photos without the oldest ones disappearing. I'm glad I posted the picture above so I don't doubt what it was doing! I get the feeling it is all still work in progress. Im sure the time will come when people will begin to notice that some of their old photos have disappeared, but no one will remember this little hiccup.

Back to the subject of cloud storage which of the options above did you find simplest to use?

Julian

***UPDATE***

Chris

Have given the phone a little while to update photo stream etc and now my moments and recently added are back to 1000!

Julian

Julian,

I just posted a tuts on OneDrive, they are having an offer to get additional 15GB (plus the initial 15GB) for mobile upload. Check it out:

http://moblivious.com/tips-tricks/onedrive-cloud-storage/

Cheers,

Chris

The problem is Steve Jobs is gone. Do you he'd put up w/ this crapola?

I agree. Opening camera roll used to be the most attractive screen on the ipad and iphone. Now it's a visual mess and unpleasant to use.

Thanks for the tip Chris. I have 30GB storage now for free :-).

FFrom the Apple Users Guide for iOS 8 for iPhone.minteresting.

What My Photostream Album?

"Manage My Photo Stream contents. In the My Photo Stream album, tap Select.

I just downloaded the Aple Users Guide for iOS 8 through ibooks and it certainly does have it in there.

Maybe this was a last second terrible decision to re-design photos into being a horrible app.

I've already sent apple two different requests to put back the non-hideous camera roll and photo stream.

In the second one, I also asked that if they aren't going to ever put back in something as useful as that to at least let us set what "recent" means.

It would be absolutely trivial for them to set a value in settings and then fetch that value instead of the hard coded 30 days.

If we could set it for 1 week, 1 month, 1 year, 5 years, unlimited then it would at least take care of the awful UI problem.

Sometimes I think that Johny Ive just says things that sound good since he was all spouting all this nonsense about letting the content come through with the new designs, but I don't see how having sometimes as few as 4 pictures on the screen at a time on an iPhone in the photos album counts as letting the content come through. No, you're letting the white space and dates I don't care about come through.

Then there's the whole stupid, useless, and energy wasting translucencies. Yeah, just what I wanted was to have the volume and every other control blurring out the movies that I watch whenever I interact with something. Letting the content come through, I don't think that means what he thinks it means. Though, I'd still be on iOS 6 on my iPad if it wasn't for the FaceTime certificate expiring. I could actually control my photo stream and camera roll and see just the pictures. Why would they think people would want otherwise? I can live with my OS looking like a super bland web page with too much white and windows 7's aero interface blurring crap because it added new functionality and restored lost functionality. But, when they actually remove features. . . Why? I can only imagine it's because they want to push the new photo library method.

Anyway, if anyone here hasn't expressed their displeasure to apple, please do so via http://apple.com/feedback/iphone.html or http://apple.com/feedback/ipad.html. I certainly do.