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Camera Roll album? Where did it go?
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It seems like there are a LOT better ways to fix this issue. Like...simply storing the photos one time and having different views?
The old way was the same re: all photos in one place albeit a different place but no dates to separate to make the search easier. You can also type in "2012" or whatever (location, album name, etc) and it will show all photos from that. I know a lot of people don't like the new organization and it's a bummer when something you're used to changes but I like it a lot. I hated the old way. Hated. To me, it was an unorganized jumbled duplicate mess.
I have other issues with iCloud photos which I hope will be resolved in time once the desktop Photos app launches but I find the reorg of Photos on iOS8 refreshing and a welcome change, personally.
Also, hoping all the devs make the appropriate changes/updates to their apps soon which I think is one of the things upsetting people as well. I have some frustration here too.
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You stated it as fact. I was asking for a source. Let's not confuse facts with your speculation as Apple has yet to address the supposed issue.
Absolutely agree. Not only they broke a perfect working way to see all the photos,
but they also broke the 3rd party apps access to all the pictures. That just blows.
All this and the fact that iOS still has NO file management makes it unusable to me.
Bring back the #cameraroll! I can't believe they did this. Who the hell would ever want to store anything in horribly unreliable iCloud? So that I can worry about it every day ?
Apple, take your 180B this year and hire someone who has a clue about Syncing but before that, give me back my damn camera roll.
Apple, take your 180B this year and hire someone who has a clue about Syncing but before that, give me back my damn camera roll.
...this is the very reason why I created individual Folders with all my wallpapers in there, in iOS 7. I now don't have to trawl through the 'Moments' (or even through the now non-existant Camera Roll) section as I have all my wallpapers in the custom folder.
I've had separate folders since iOS 6, so much easier for the wallpaper junkie.
There will always be a better way, this is the way they chose, for the moment anyway.
All there is really left to be said is that people should make sure to submit feedback about this. You guys can yell all you want about it on these and other forums but anyone of influence at apple will likely never read it.
...this is the very reason why I created individual Folders with all my wallpapers in there, in iOS 7. I now don't have to trawl through the 'Moments' (or even through the now non-existant Camera Roll) section as I have all my wallpapers in the custom folder.
...just to update this - before I updated to iOS8 I created an additional album and called it 'Old Camera Roll pics. When I then updated to iOS8, as well as the old camera roll photos being sent and scrambled within the 'Moments' section, I also had copies of them within this extra folder.
Does that mean that I have created 2 lots of the same photos?!
....I'de like to know this as well?! How exactly do we get the photos, from the photos app, actually uploaded to iCloud Drive as I see NO options to do this, anywhere on my iPad 2?!
Are you talking about this Rollit https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rollit-photo-transfer-app/id741790426?mt=8 I have it, but I don't think it will work the way Camera Roll used to work.
I did a clean install of iOS 8 last Friday (previously had the GM), transferred all of my pics from my Mac to the iPhone via Rollit, yes, right now all the photos are in Recently Added and in the order I like, but i'm pretty sure that after a few days they will start to disappear and will only be able to find them in Collections/Moments.
I guess maybe next week will see if they still there or not, but my guess is no.
I do not use albums on my phone. A client is asking a question I'm having a hard time answering. If you had albums created for iOS 7, do they transfer to iOS 8?
She says her albums and organization are gone. She did not use iPhoto. She doesn't really want to create all the albums again.
Any info on this? It seems to be a question not asked very often. Her photos are not missing, etc. they're just missing organization that was there before.
Any insight would be appreciated.
She says her albums and organization are gone. She did not use iPhoto. She doesn't really want to create all the albums again.
Any info on this? It seems to be a question not asked very often. Her photos are not missing, etc. they're just missing organization that was there before.
Any insight would be appreciated.
Yep. That is the app. So far I've had all my photos in Recently Added and nothing has moved, but I see what you're saying. When syncing the phone Apple may move photos to collections/moments or delete them off Recently Added. Sounds logical, but I don't think that will happen. Only time will tell if Rollit is a great camera roll substitute.
To all the people saying we were crying and Camera Roll was never coming back, here you go...
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1793018/
Camera Roll is back in iOS 8.1, I guess giving feedback at https://www.apple.com/feedback/ really works.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1793018/
Camera Roll is back in iOS 8.1, I guess giving feedback at https://www.apple.com/feedback/ really works.
It seems like it's back. I'm not really sure if we'd really know if provided feedback or something else entirely had much to do with it coming back (short of Apple coming out and letting us know).
I'm going to say yes. There was a massive thread about it on the Apple forums. Camera Roll is a huge feature of the photos app, removing it makes people pissed. It would be like taking away the albums view in the music app and forcing people to view songs sorted by artists instead.