Letter to Apple - please give us our webjournals back!

Using iCloud as suggested in the link I posted previously iPhoto for iOS (iPad): Share your web journal as a webpage

This used to work well in iOS 7. But we are stumped, because we cannot even launch iPhoto at all in iOS 8, so there is no way to publish the journal.

If iPhoto does launch on your iPad and iPhone, what iPhoto version do you have? I have iPhoto 2.0.1 installed. And what are your settings? On my iPhone and iPad is iCloud Drive enabled.

Apple's Support Document says: Migrating from iPhoto for iOS to Photos on iOS 8

Migrating from iPhoto for iOS to Photos on iOS 8

iPhoto for iOS is not supported on devices with iOS 8 or later. This article will explain how to migrate your iPhoto data to Photos. ......

Here is a better option that I found that works for me. This option is for Mac or PC and not IOS. You need a Google+ account, PC or Mac and Google drive. Download http://picasa.google.com photo manager/editor

Launch Picasa and let it scan your picture folders.When it is done from the list of your photos upload selected photos you wish to use for web journal to to Picasa web album. You will need to enter your gmail or google+ login info. Using your browser login to Picasa web albums and you will have the option to create and share web journal style slide show, movie or blog post with text and multimedia (photos or movies). When ready you can keep your journals private or share it with friends or public. I switch to Picasa web albums today and I love it. not sure if links are allowed here but here couple of screenshots:

Since iPhoto does no longer exist, your proposed solution is no longer viable. We have lost the web journal function.

Have you tried to go back to iOS 7 ? I do not know whether it is feasible, but I once went back from Mavericks to the Cat.

This is an enormous breach of trust by Apple. How, indeed, can we be expect Apple to simply cease other icloud functions ? I, for my part, will certainly draw consequences and not store anything in it. There are plenty of alternatives.

For the future this could be interesting as a replacement for the webjournals:

https://www.storehouse.co

Have you sent a link to the journal(s) to someone ? Those still work.

Have you tried to go back to iOS 7 ? I do not know whether it is feasible, but I once went back from Mavericks to the Cat.

You can downgrade a mac to an earlier system, if you have a full Time Machine backup of the older version or a bootable clone, but Apple does not support downgrading mobile devices to an earlier iOS version.

For anyone looking for something similar to the web journal functionality of iPhoto, Microsoft Sway on the iPad is the closest thing I've found. It does not have the granularity of control over photo layout but there are several reasonable templates that include animations web journals did not have. Text and URLs can be added to. Final designs can be shared via a simplie web link.