I had to sign up to reply to this. Thank you very much!I'm gonna bump this old thread and give the answer cause I ran into the same thing and couldn't find the answer.
So you let your kid play with your phone even though your husband keeps telling you "it's not a toy, quit letting her play with it". Your kid deletes your shared photo stream. Your husband, parents, and other relatives can still see it on their devices.... but you can't see it on yours. What do you do?
in iOS 6.x do the following:
-- Go to Settings > iCloud > Photo Stream
-- On here you will see two toggle switches, one for "My Photo Stream" and one for "Shared Photo Stream".
-- Toggle off the "Shared Photo Stream".
-- This will prompt you and say "Turning off Shared Photo Streams will delete all shared photos from your iPhone" ....well... this is a bit of a misnomer. It's not going to delete the photos from your phone first of all... they would remain in your camera roll. Secondly, the photos in the shared photo stream are already gone (along with the entire thing) or you wouldn't be reading this.
-- Click Delete.
-- Now, toggle back on "Shared Photo Streams"
-- Go to Photos > Photo Stream tab and watch your old photo stream re-appear and begin to populate!
I hope this helps someone in the same position.
I originally shared it from my iPhone 5. I've tried adding myself to the shared photostream off my iPad. Doesn't work... Thanks though.
I had to sign up to reply to this. Thank you very much!
Yes, thank you so much!!! I was afraid to say ok to that warning. You gave me the courage to do it, and sure enough my shared photo stream is now back!!!I'm gonna bump this old thread and give the answer cause I ran into the same thing and couldn't find the answer.
So you let your kid play with your phone even though your husband keeps telling you "it's not a toy, quit letting her play with it". Your kid deletes your shared photo stream. Your husband, parents, and other relatives can still see it on their devices.... but you can't see it on yours. What do you do?
in iOS 6.x do the following:
-- Go to Settings > iCloud > Photo Stream
-- On here you will see two toggle switches, one for "My Photo Stream" and one for "Shared Photo Stream".
-- Toggle off the "Shared Photo Stream".
-- This will prompt you and say "Turning off Shared Photo Streams will delete all shared photos from your iPhone" ....well... this is a bit of a misnomer. It's not going to delete the photos from your phone first of all... they would remain in your camera roll. Secondly, the photos in the shared photo stream are already gone (along with the entire thing) or you wouldn't be reading this.
-- Click Delete.
-- Now, toggle back on "Shared Photo Streams"
-- Go to Photos > Photo Stream tab and watch your old photo stream re-appear and begin to populate!
I hope this helps someone in the same position.
Yes, thank you so much!!! I was afraid to say ok to that warning. You gave me the courage to do it, and sure enough my shared photo stream is now back!!!
Hey! Glad I could help (even 2 years later, ha ha)!
[doublepost=1461716365][/doublepost]I signed up for this forum JUST TO THANK YOU! this saved my BUTT> AT first I didn't think it worked but then i saw the camera comment, went to my camera, saw the last pic, brought it back up and then went back to my pictures and BOOM THEY WERE THERE! you are my hero.I'm gonna bump this old thread and give the answer cause I ran into the same thing and couldn't find the answer.
So you let your kid play with your phone even though your husband keeps telling you "it's not a toy, quit letting her play with it". Your kid deletes your shared photo stream. Your husband, parents, and other relatives can still see it on their devices.... but you can't see it on yours. What do you do?
in iOS 6.x do the following:
-- Go to Settings > iCloud > Photo Stream
-- On here you will see two toggle switches, one for "My Photo Stream" and one for "Shared Photo Stream".
-- Toggle off the "Shared Photo Stream".
-- This will prompt you and say "Turning off Shared Photo Streams will delete all shared photos from your iPhone" ....well... this is a bit of a misnomer. It's not going to delete the photos from your phone first of all... they would remain in your camera roll. Secondly, the photos in the shared photo stream are already gone (along with the entire thing) or you wouldn't be reading this.
-- Click Delete.
-- Now, toggle back on "Shared Photo Streams"
-- Go to Photos > Photo Stream tab and watch your old photo stream re-appear and begin to populate!
I hope this helps someone in the same position.
[doublepost=1461716365][/doublepost]I signed up for this forum JUST TO THANK YOU! this saved my BUTT> AT first I didn't think it worked but then i saw the camera comment, went to my camera, saw the last pic, brought it back up and then went back to my pictures and BOOM THEY WERE THERE! you are my hero.
[doublepost=1469184496][/doublepost]I don't seem to have a photo steam at all any more but the options I have arent't the same as listed here! Do you have updated info for recovering the photo stream on my iphone 6?Glad it worked! I didn't know that SO MANY PEOPLE would run into the same issue, ha ha.
Ah, it appears they've changed some words -- but it looks to be about the same. Here's an update for iOS 9.x.x and I put in bold the stuff that seems to have changed:
-- Go to Settings > iCloud > Photos
-- On here you will see three toggle switches, one for "iCloud Photo Library", one for "My Photo Stream" and one for "iCloud Photo Sharing".
-- Toggle off the "iCloud Photo Sharing".
-- This will prompt you and say "Turning off iCloud Photo Sharing will delete all shared photos from your iPhone" ....well... this is a bit of a misnomer. It's not going to delete the photos from your phone first of all... they would remain in your camera roll. Secondly, the photos in the shared photo stream are already gone (along with the entire thing) or you wouldn't be reading this.
-- Click Delete.
-- Now, toggle back on "iCloud Photo Sharing"
-- Go to Photos > shared tab and watch your old photo stream re-appear and begin to populate!
NOTE: I did not go through these steps again... I stopped at "turning off iCloud Photo Sharing will delete...." as I don't really need to do this right nowI have no reason to believe the rest of the steps won't work the same as they have for others but please do let us know if it doesn't for some reason!
Ah, it appears they've changed some words -- but it looks to be about the same. Here's an update for iOS 9.x.x and I put in bold the stuff that seems to have changed:
-- Go to Settings > iCloud > Photos
-- On here you will see three toggle switches, one for "iCloud Photo Library", one for "My Photo Stream" and one for "iCloud Photo Sharing".
-- Toggle off the "iCloud Photo Sharing".
-- This will prompt you and say "Turning off iCloud Photo Sharing will delete all shared photos from your iPhone" ....well... this is a bit of a misnomer. It's not going to delete the photos from your phone first of all... they would remain in your camera roll. Secondly, the photos in the shared photo stream are already gone (along with the entire thing) or you wouldn't be reading this.
-- Click Delete.
-- Now, toggle back on "iCloud Photo Sharing"
-- Go to Photos > shared tab and watch your old photo stream re-appear and begin to populate!
NOTE: I did not go through these steps again... I stopped at "turning off iCloud Photo Sharing will delete...." as I don't really need to do this right nowI have no reason to believe the rest of the steps won't work the same as they have for others but please do let us know if it doesn't for some reason!