iOS 8 camera roll is missing!!!

I know exactly what she is saying, Collections and Moments are not useful, and usually incorrect, and add tons of unwanted, unhelpful white space

why can't there be a "please don't go thru the EXTRA step of sorting these photos into groups I DO NOT WANT" ?????

what I want being the thing I would hope Apple would care about, not what they want

How do you "create" an album in the Photos App on the iPhone??? And, can you "move" photos of your choice into said album?

Delete works like this now - regardless of whether you have Photo Stream turned on or not:

When you delete a Photo, it puts it into the Recently Deleted Album where it will remain for 30 days or until you go to that album and delete it from there. If you do delete it from the Recently Deleted folder you will get a message prior to the delete processing that warns you that this action cannot be reversed. You press OK if you permanently want to delete it entirely.

Photos in the Recently Deleted Album can be recovered. It gets moved back to where it was deleted from:

- If it was in Recently Added, it will be put back there, and can also be seen in the Moments for that date

- If it was an older photo, it gets put back into the Moment for that date

There is really only one copy of the photo on your device. It can be seen in the different photo levels and in the Recently Added if it was added within the last 30 days. It can be seen in the different photo levels alone if it was added over 30 days ago.

GB

Go to the Albums view, click on the Plus sign at the top left, type in a name for your album. It will then go to the Moments view, and you just tap on the photos you want in the album. When you have selected all the ones you want, click on Done in the upper right-hand corner.

Cheers,

GB

Thanks, Gail....appreciate your help.

Anna

Most welcome MistyLady! 🙂

Cheers,

GB

I'm saying that "Camera Roll" is not an available option now in Photos, via the Albums view. Not at all. The list starts with Recently Added, and then there is a list of other folders. Via the Photos view, Collections takes you only back as far as the By Year sort. You can not see everything on the entire Camera Roll in one view, at all, from within Photos. Camera Roll used to be there, and contained all photos. It is not there any more.

This is a problem because with Facebook (for example) you can choose a photo to upload by selecting it from a list of folders, (which looks just like the Albums view of Photos). I have more than 2,000 photos on my phone and used to be able to select any of them to upload to facebook by choosing the Camera Roll folder and scrolling down until I found the one I wanted. Now Camera Roll is shown, but it only contains 139 photos. It isn't really showing the entire Camera Roll, it is actually showing Recently Added. I assume that because it is at the top, it is called Camera Roll even though it isn't. There is a list folders below what is labelled "Camera Roll" which contain a grand total of 838 photos. Those, plus the "Camera Roll" folder (ie Recently Added) only total 977 photos. There is no way to get to the rest of the photos on the phone.

I know that sounds wrong, and you probably think I'm over complicating things or missing something. But I'm not. It really isn't there.

I flat out don't want my photos in the cloud, and don't want them in photo stream. I have never set it up to do that, and don't plan to change.

You can keep your photos completely separately on each device. Just don't use the cloud. If you don't set up iCloud Drive. Everything will work (More or less) as it did previously.

You can keep your photos completely separately on each device. Just don't use the cloud. If you don't set up iCloud Drive. Everything will work (More or less) as it did previously.

That's what I'm trying to point out, it isn't working as it did previously. I can't access all my photos anywhere except in the Photos / Collections / by Year view, and even there I need to open each year individually, which breaks it up even more, into specific date ranges, which turns it into the Moments view. By selecting a photo there, I can scroll through all 2000+ photos, each one individually.

There used to be a folder called Camera Roll in Photos. It is gone now. Without it, I can't access any photos that aren't in specific folders, in other apps, or even in Photos itself.

exactly

sorting into collections/moments is not useful

Yes, I know it isn't there. The issue you are having with Facebook is that is is not giving you the option to access your Photos view - which is where all of your photos are. I would imagine that before long, the Facebook app will be modified to utilize this new structure....

Cheers,

GB

It is not just a matter of iCloud Drive. The entire structure has been modified, so even if you don't have iCloud Drive enabled, if you have Photo Stream enabled on iCloud, it will have all of the photos that are showing in the various Album and Shared views on iCloud.

GB

I really think you are making a major deal out of nothing. The photos in the photos view are all of your photos in chronological order. The Collections and Moments are simply labels to make the locating of photos easier. Maybe it would be a good idea for you to suggest to Apple that in a future iOS release they have the option to sort photos by Collections/Moments, or the option to simply show all photos in chronological order with no labels at all....

Apple - Feedback

GB

Doubtful that Facebook modifying their app will fix a problem originating in the ios8 Photos app. Hopefully Apple will issue a fix soon. If this isn't actually "broken", meaning it is how it was designed to act, I guess I'll go back to using my PC or God forbid, look at android.

not hopeful on a fix, they think this is the way you ought to want it