iOS 10 - iMessage Photos Not Saving to Camera Roll

What issue? Apparently thousands of users used the http://apple.com/feedback and complained that images in messages were being saved and were thus using up storage. So Apple changed it to not save photos unless you explicitly save them. It is working as designed, in response to user feedback.

Just because you don't like the way it works it does not mean that it is broken.

Slow your roll, Larry. Nothing was broken. The in-app camera merely functions differently. I inadvertently lost some great candid photos. After finding this thread, I included my dissatisfaction with the changes to the widget's function. I also left feedback with http://apple.com/feedback.

I'm sure you didn't receive your Level 8 status by taunting users with ad homonym taunts. But maybe I'm mistaken, I don't hang out in these threads for leisure.

Less,

Do you work for apple? If so can you please have apple change this feature back? I hate that you now how to save down instead of pictures automatically saving. Another feature that would be nice and which is available on WhatsApp is that pictures people send are automatically saved to your camera roll. Again a wonderful feature. Sure let people turn on and off at will but having you all make the choice for us stinks! The old functionality was much better.

CNLGerard wrote:

Less,

Do you work for apple? If so can you please have apple change this feature back? I hate that you now how to save down instead of pictures automatically saving. Another feature that would be nice and which is available on WhatsApp is that pictures people send are automatically saved to your camera roll. Again a wonderful feature. Sure let people turn on and off at will but having you all make the choice for us stinks! The old functionality was much better.

No one here can make apple do anything, including Lindsay (I have no idea why you're calling them "Less"). You can, however, give Apple your feedback using the link already provided.

No one here works for Apple. Most likely the reason this change was made was in response to the many years of posts and threads (probably in the thousands) from users who complained that photos from iMessage were cluttering up their camera roll and using up space on their phones.

In camera:

1. I push the button

2. I hear the shutter sound effect

3. Photo is saved

In iMessage/Message:

1. I push the button

2. I hear the shutter sound effect

3. Photo is saved

Also, consider that I take five photos while in Messages. I only want to send one, but retain all five. From what I can tell, this is no longer possible.

This thread seemed to be addressing this issue.

Darin Simmer wrote:

Slow your roll, Larry. Nothing was broken.

So you and Lawrence appear to agree: as nothing is broken, there is nothing for Apple to fix.

I'm sure you didn't receive your Level 8 status by taunting users with ad homonym taunts. But maybe I'm mistaken, I don't hang out in these threads for leisure.

Disagreeing with someone is not the same thing as an ad hominem attack. On the other hand, veiled accusations of same might be considered so.

This is the worst thing about my iPhone. I'd rather go back and delete any pictures from my roll myself than take a bunch and have to send them and then go back and save them. It's too many steps and with three kids, I have lost so many pictures because when the app closes before the picture is sent, the pic is gone. Not a good choice, Apple.

Grh1002 wrote:

This is the worst thing about my iPhone. I'd rather go back and delete any pictures from my roll myself than take a bunch and have to send them and then go back and save them. It's too many steps and with three kids, I have lost so many pictures because when the app closes before the picture is sent, the pic is gone. Not a good choice, Apple.

So, send your feedback to Apple. In the meantime, take pictures from the Camera app rather than the Messages app.

Grh1002 wrote:

This is the worst thing about my iPhone. I'd rather go back and delete any pictures from my roll myself than take a bunch and have to send them and then go back and save them. It's too many steps and with three kids, I have lost so many pictures because when the app closes before the picture is sent, the pic is gone. Not a good choice, Apple.

It used to work that way. Thanks to a huge number of complaints that said essentially; "the worst thing about my iPhone is that pictures from messages clutter up my camera roll," Apple changed it.

Appreciate the irony.

PLEASE Apple, make some of things more flexible for us -- and let the default settings be the extent to which you push us in a specific direction:

let me set whether I want to save incoming iMessage images to Camera Roll or iCloud automatically;

same for photos taken ion iMessage (and while you are there, please use the regular Camera - not the mini-version

and one single click in iMessage should be enough to get me to the camera

You might not want to hear this... but WhatsApp does all this quite well....

neqbay415 wrote:

PLEASE Apple, make some of things more flexible for us

Apple is not listening here. The fact that you are addressing them here means either that you haven't read this thread before posting in it or that you really just want to rant publicly. Neither is productive behavior, though I'm sure theres some emotional satisfaction in the latter.

Submit your feedback. But, don't hold your breath. Apple has never been known for providing lots of choice. It's just not the way they operate.

Best of luck.

Huge number. I have seen hundreds of posts over the years complaining about it, and to change the way it worked took additional effort, so there had to be a good reason that Apple changed the way it worked.

Apple is not big on multiple options; they never have been. I won't speculate on why, but it has always been the Apple way to do what they think is best, take it or leave it.

neqbay415 wrote:

You might not want to hear this... but WhatsApp does all this quite well....

Then use WhatsApp. Why do you think that we users many not want to hear that? Or even that Apple (who won't see your post) cares what messaging app you use? Apple does not make money from the messaging app, so that can't be a reason. SMS/MMS messages are decidedly not secure, so I don't use Apple's messaging app much; I use Skype for routine messaging, or Signal when I want guaranteed security. While iMessage IS secure, it only works between Apple products. But regardless of how you message - MMS, iMessage, FaceTime, WhatsApp, Skype, Signal, Google Duo, Yahoo Messaging, AIM... it makes no difference to Apple.

thanks for your wise words, however condescending they could be interpreted to be.

I would prefer Apple to listen to a growing number of their customer base, and that they change things, to having to move over to the dark side.

Sitting on their butts will not be their key to ongoing success, and can only be interpreted as pigheadedness