Where did photostream and Cameraroll go in iOS 8?

The issue about Photo Stream or now Recently Added being limited to 1000/30 days is not about that it's hard to set it, but rather how much iCloud storage that it will occupy 😉 Apple doesn't want to pay anymore Free storage than it prepares to give us. They don't need to. As somebody here said, Photo Stream was only designed for 'temporary' storage. We were supposed to back them up ourselves (if we care about the photos in there) to our PC or Mac (which is not limited by number nor time).

I do still agree that Camera Roll or an equivalent of it should be available, I don't see any reason not to have it back.

Cheers,

Chris

II'm betting they rewrite of the guide just missed this this. but a major change like this should have gotten more editing.

TThe writer of the guide probably didn't understand where the camera roll had gone or why on earth you would want to get rid of it :-D

May I add to this thread - it's entirely down to the change, but how you use it on Windows 8.

If I take a photo on my ipad or iphone, it shows on either device.

But I have iCloud on my laptop, yet it's completely confusing.

Whereas we use to see it all in My Photo Stream - upload to there and it appears on devices. Now, you have Uploads, Shared and My Photo Stream. And in the ICloud software link, you have Activity as well.

So it's gone from ONE folder, two FOUR.

The confusing begins here really. If I upload a file to Uploads, it appears on both devices. If I delete it from Uploads, it remains on both devices. If I delete from the devices, it remains on Uploads.

My Photo Stream - I don't know what that is for anymore. It shows only old photos - nothing that is newly taken or uploaded.

Activity - that shows photos I took at the weekend, but isnt showing anything I took as a screenshot on my ipad.

So while all the positivity surrounding it made it appear like they have needed this for years, it's completely cocked up all understanding of how it worked, and I Want to know how you use it effectively. How you avoid double storage use (my photo stream and uploads for example), and how you find a photo in iCloud on your PC, to drag and copy to PC for backup use.

During iOS7, I knew how. In iOS8, I haven't the foggiest!

Hi Simon,

Just wondering where do you see Uploads? In the iPhone or in the PC?

Cheers,

Chris

It's on my PC.

I can access pictures/icloud photos. In there is My PHoto Stream and Uploads. both with about 470 pics in them.

Funny, I only have My Photo Stream, but not Uploads. Did it just appear after you upgraded to iOS 8, or has it been there since iOS 7? Do you have iCloud Drive on?

Chris

I have iCloud Drive on, yes.

It's only been there since iOS8 and the iCloud updated on my laptop.

Before, it was just My Photo STream. So I could Add PHotos, and they would appear on all.

Now I have Uploads, and all the others I expressed.

Maybe if you could explain how you add files to My Photo Stream or iCloud, and what the difference is between the two, that may help me.

As perhaps I can just delete the Uploads folder!

The really nice thing about photostream was that it was simple. You didn't have to do anything. Take a pic on one of your Apple devices, and when you enter a place that has wifi, it shows up on your other Apple devices. Then you'd have the pic for whatever use on multiple devices. What is really confusing is I have a 3GS phone that stopped updating at iOS6 and an iPad that's updated to iOS8 and it's not so simple to move the pictures over to the tablet from the phone.

Personally I would not have updated it to iOS8, if ur other devices cannot work on it - as the two Pghotos area are very different.

The old version being much much better and simpler than this down right annoying new version. which even Apple cannot yet resolve for me.

Well, I'm sure if people would have known about the change in advance they might not have updated. This seems to have come as a complete surprise. I've never had any problems with the updates before.

Simon,

Unfortunately I don't have iCloud Drive turn on yet. As I am also on a Mac, I need to wait for the new OSX to arrive to take advantage iCloud Drive fully. But yes, I know that it's already available in Windows.

The new iCloud Drive is a proper icloud storage, think about it as that OneDrive you just got yesterday. On a PC side, as usual you can have a local copy of everything which is sync to the 'cloud'. Unfortunately there is no such 'Web Access' to it like OneDrive has, so you can't really see these file on the web. To make matter worst, there is no such a thing as an iCloud App for iPhone 🙂 You can only access iCloud files via third party app, like Pages, etc. Adding files to iCloud Drive is just a matter of Drag and Drop to the folder (it will be sync to the cloud).

As for My Photo Stream, as far as I know, it's still working as before, and it has nothing to do with the iCloud Drive. I did try just now to upload photos to my Photo Stream via iPhoto in my Mac, but it doesn't work 🙂 Downloading however still works as I wrote on this article:

http://moblivious.com/tips-tricks/photostream-to-pc-or-mac/

To be honest, I never use Photo Stream for anything, I backup all my photos to my Mac and PC on daily basis, and if I want to upload photo to my iPhone, I use email, iTunes sync, or one of the 'proper' Cloud Storage as I mentioned previously.

Sorry I can't be more help.

Ok I think I have managed something. I uninstalled, deleted it all, and then reinstalled icloud but wihtout icloud or bookmakrs. jsut photos.

That's done the trick,

But in the Photo Stream app thing on windows, how do you change the ORDER they are viewed?

You mean in Explorer, or in iPhone? In Windows, just go directly to the folder, don't use the special shortcut. In iPhone ... who knows 🙂 I think it's FIFO, First in First out.

HTH

Chris

What's the difference between My Photo Stream on PC, Recently Added on iDevice... and Collections?

Can Collections be edited from PC, since it is on both Apple devices.