My photo stream not showing up as iphoto events?

Have you set thePreferences > iCloud in iPhoto to "My Photo Stream > Automatic Import"?

If "Automatic Import" is not enabled, you have to manually import the photos from My Photo Stream to the library.

It sounds like you are using Photos, not iPhoto, since iCloud Photo Library isn't available in iPhoto.

In Photos, My Photo Stream shows up in the Albums tab, see this help article: https://help.apple.com/photos/mac/1.0/?lang=en#/phtc0bf4b9bb

I have the same issue, photo stream and last imported albums are not showing. It was reported before and fix does not seem to exist...

Whoa! -- this is a problem! In fact-- apparently some change has been made by Apple where photos taken on your iPhone or iPad are no longer saved as Events in Photo. Even worse recent pictures that I took on my iPhone 6 Plus that would have been in my May 2015 Events not only didn't show up but have been deleted from my iPhone some of these were important to me -- e.g., a record hailstorm.

Of course - there are no events in Photos so nothing is saved as an event - PhotoStream photos show in their proper lace I'm Photos view

LN

Larry HN -- Hmmm... I guess I wasn't on top of the details of the transition from iPhoto to Photos. I am a typical user and got used to my Photostream content being preserved on my Mac in Events every Month. The first time I used Photos -- of course -- things had changed, but my past monthly Photostream Events were right there in Albums -- so -- I wasn't too worried. I was worried when I realized that some photos I had taken in May were gone, and there they were not stored in my May Events on my Mac as an album. So -- now I know better, but I had to find out the hard way. It also bothers me also that there is no automatic way to store my new iPhone photos on my Mac by the month.

Thanks.

Hello again Larry HN... I can't believe how responsive Apple can be. I don't think there is any corporation in the world that listens to its customers like Apple. Here it is 3 days after my initial post pointing out a limitation in the new Photos app. I would like to report that this shortcoming has been corrected and my recent photos on my iPhone are being saved as Events on my Mac in Photos in Yosemite. Thank heaven -- I was ready to give up iCloud and Photostream.

For those worrying about preserving their photos on their computer I have determined that you can do this by manually using iPhoto to import photos to your Mac. However, I am not sure that the photos get organized in iPhoto in a logical way by "Moments" because mine all showed up in an Album named "Last Import".

Hi Bob H.!

Okay, so you mentioned that your recent photos from your iphone are now being saved as events. How did you get this to happen? I am still having the issue. I see that they show up in my photo stream, but that only goes back so far....

Thanks in advance for your help!

Whoa! -- this is a problem! In fact-- apparently some change has been made by Apple where photos taken on your iPhone or iPad are no longer saved as Events in Photo.

Moments in Photos are the new Events, i.e. groupings of photos sorted by date taken.

When the iPhoto Library was first migrated to Photos there was a folder created in the sidebar titled iPhoto Events and all migrated iPhoto Events (which are now Moments) are represented by an album in that folder. To open the sidebar if it's not already open use the Option+Command+S key combination.

There's a way to simulate events in Photos.

When new photos are imported into the Photos library go to the Last Import smart album, select all the photos and use the File ➙ New Album menu option or use the key combination Command+N. Name it as desired. It will appear just above the iPhoto Events folder where you can drag it into the iPhoto Events folder

When you click on the iPhoto Events folder you'll get a simulated iPhoto Events window.

The downside to the simulation is that the Albums/Events can only be sorted automatically by Title. But they can also be sorted manually, either in the sidebar or in the folder's window at the right.

Ask Apple for more sorting options in Photos via https://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html.

Since there are no events in Photos obviously Bob H is not seeing his PhotoStream automatically saved into a non existent entity

In Photos as posted PS photos are in their proper place in years/collections/moments

Of course - there are no events in Photos so nothing is saved as an event - PhotoStream photos show in their proper place in Photos view

No idea what Bob H is seeing but it is not events in Photos

LN

Utah Gal -- you are right. Now I don't get what happened in my case, but after a bit of analysis I do see what I think I did. Apparently in my desperation when I first discovered we no longer had the Photo Stream Event appear automatically, I tried some things, and one of them worked so smoothly I didn't realize it was of my own doing.

So here is my recipe for doing what I did.

1) After opening Photos, select Albums

2) From the File Menu select "New Smart Album..." and a new dialog box will appear.

3) Give your Album a name -- for example, "June - 2015"

4) In the first pull down menu select "Date"

5) In the second pull down menu select "is in the range" and two date selection fields appear

6) Put in the range -- for example "6/1/2015" to "6/30/2015"

7) Automagically your photos will appear in your monthly Smart Albums if you are using Photo Stream.

You could create Smart Albums for the rest of year if you wish. You might want to do one for May 2015 to capture those also. I am hoping what is in the Smart Albums is permanent even after the photos are dropped from Photo Stream. They should because they appear in "Photos" which has them all.

So Utah Gal, I hope this helps you and others. Your post helped me figure this out.

Hey Old Toad -- I appreciate your post. Check out my latest post in response to Utah Gal. Until the recent posts I didn't know what I had done that was working was a Smart Album. Is my recipe any more automatic than yours?

This an addendum to my previous post providing a recipe for automatically organizing and storing Photo Stream photos from your Apple devices (e.g., iPhone) by month. This used to be done automatically in Events, but with the recent change from iPhoto to Photos, this feature was no longer available.

Apple supplied a default Album for the Events previously created in Events named "iPhoto Events",

If you want to keep the Events structure going, then create you Smart Album while you are in "iPhoto Events".

If you want to have new albums for each month's Photo Stream photos while you are in "Albums", create the new Smart Albums while you are in "Albums".

One suggestion on nomenclature --

Name the Smart Albums like so -- "June 2015 Photo Stream"

Hope this helps.