why are only certain pictures from my camera roll showing when i want to upload on instagram?

HI! I am facing the same problem! Is it ok for you now? How did you manage?

Have you enabled the "Summarise photos" option?

With "Summarise Photos" on, you will only see a subset of your photos in your "Moments" view.

You may want to disable it.

By default, Photos displays a representative subset of your photos when you view by year or by collection.

To see all your photos, go to Settings > Photos & Camera, then turn off "Summarise Photos".

Yes I am having the same issue with an iPhone 6Plus. Any ideas how to resolve it? Instagram just seems to 'not see' certain photos in your camera roll. I have tried adding the photos again and again to camera roll but it seems to go blind to certain photos. Maybe it is an instagram issue?

I had the same problem where Instagram was only "seeing" certain photos in my different folders. It turns out it was caused by have the iCloud photo library being turned on. Instgram was only able to "see" the photos saved on my phone, but having iCloud turned on confused it somehow so it wasn't even seeing all of the photos saved on my phone and I also didn't know what was actually on my phone and what was in the cloud.

After going into the Photo and Camera setting, I deactivated "iCloud Photo Library", "iCloud Photo Sharing", and "My Photo Stream" for good measure. Then I was able to access all of the photos that were saved on my actual phone and not in iCloud. I now have "My Photo Stream" active again and that hasn't caused any issues. Now I just know I have to actually put the photos on my phone that I want to upload into Instagram which is sort of unfortunate, but better than not being able to see all of the photos. I hope this helps others!

Seems we are having a similar issue: Instagram: No access to Moments? Only small subset of albums? All Photos album incomplete?

i wonder why Instagram doesn't have access at Moments from icloud photo library at all (while other apps do have access).

@ Beck Khazratov: Thank you for this hint. 🙂

I get the impression that editing photos within apple Photos App is by far not as robust as it should be. Indeed, it seems to bring up several issues, see here and here. 😟

Same issue here. I've tried deleting the app, restarting the phone and reinstalling. I also tried changing the various setting for the photos app.

For me it's been this way for at least a couple weeks. I unfortunately didn't take note when it first occurred.

My only thought left is that perhaps a corrupt image, or an odd image type, say a gif, png, NEF, etc, is causing instagram to choke and stop loading photos. I haven't tried looking or testing for this yet. It seems daunting when you have thousands of photos. This is pure speculation, FYI.

It's a shame that instagram was bought by fb. There is no real support anymore.

I had this problem on my iPhone 6 as well! In order to get certain pictures to show up on Instagram I ended up texting myself the photos and saving them in iMessage. After I saved the pictures to my camera roll, they showed up in Instagram. hope this helps!

FIgured it out. Seems the issue is to do with photos in the cloud and not on the phone. So to force the photo to appear in Instagram, go to the image on your Photos app and then 'Favourite' it. Then, reopen Instagram and go to the Favourites album and it should appear ... might take a few moments to download. Once uploaded to Instagram, you can un-favourite it if you like.

For me, I found that the photo hadn't downloaded from iCloud to my iPad. I opened Photos, clicked on the photo, then I saw the clock as it downloady the photo. I did this to all my photos and Instagram saw them.

I have tried to off "Summarize Photos", but it didn't work for me. And the exact photo lost in Instagram was not only in cloud but also loaded in my iPhone 6+ too.

SOLUTION: I opened the missing photo and Reverted the "Edit" changes I have made. Yes, it appeared back.

But of course the Uploaded photos to iCloud are missing too, unless I open them and download them back.

Troubleshoot different solutions, might help you one or another.

Good luck!

I think this may have something to do with "Optimize iPhone Storage" being turned on in your iCloud—Photos settings. At least, this is when I first started noticing the issue. If your phone decides to store the original photo in iCloud to save space, maybe Instagram can't see it despite the reference file remaining in your photo album? If you have plenty of free space on your phone (I sure don't) you might turn this setting off and see if that fixes it.

Help! Instagram has made a mess of my photo albums! When trying to share an image on Instagram, I have to scroll down through the millions of albums I have and still not see what I want since the albums are completely out of order or are just plain missing. I use a Mac v.ElCapitan and an iphone6 and Photos. It seems that Instagram is also using my old iPhotos albums. I’ve tried closing the app and reopening as well as deleting and readding the app on my iPhone in hopes that all of my albums are uploaded and in order on Instagram. No such luck. As a work around I’ve even “favorited” the photos I want to share within Photos both on my phone and on my Mac hoping they get added to the “favorites” album list on Instagram but they are missing! Any ideas?

I had this problem with photos uploaded to my phone from a pc. The workaround I discovered:

View a photo you want to upload to Instagram

Select the "Share" icon

Two lines of options show up- on the first line, select the three dots at the far right

Turn "Instagram" slider on

Add a caption and share away!

It seems you can only do one photo at a time, though. Hope this helps!