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

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).

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!

@ 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. 😟

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.

I was able to figure out where to see all my camera photos while im on instagram.

I hope this would help see screenshot below.

Have a great day!

This solution worked for me as well. Do not store anything on I-Cloud. It confuses the **** out of Instagram;)

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!

just noticed a similar thing with FB. i have 30 thousand photos, but when i go to upload a recent holiday photo it's saying i only have 5 thousand in my camera roll. and many photos are simply not showing up from my holiday just one week ago.

this is totally bizarre and frustrating...

This didn't work for me, do you know of another solution?

For me, it was because the images were "Live" images. I duplicated them as still images, and they showed up! 🙂

(Share button > Duplicate > Duplicate as still image)