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

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...

I just discovered that to save photos from Instagram to the iPhoto camera roll the iCloud photo saving must be turned off. Go into iCloud on the home screen, then into photos and turn the 'save photos' off. It said I would loose all photos saved - this applies to the iCloud photo gallery and not to the device's iPhoto gallery.

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!

Then I don't know, sorry.

Same here, but only on my iPad. It works fine on the iPhone.

I just tried this solution this morning and it worked! Thanks.

Does anyone know if Apple/Instagram/Facebook plan on fixing this - I can see the use of icloud but if it makes instagram accessing photos difficult, then what is the point?

This helped me. Thanks

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

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)