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AbSoluTc

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Long story short, I am switching my iCloud account to another developer account. I have iOS 8 on my 5S with iCloud photo library turned on. All my photos from my camera roll were in there. I turned it off and turned photo stream back on.

I now only have 106 photos on my device. I had over 1060 photos. The question is, how the hell do I get all my photos back? I turned iCloud photo library back on and it's "syncing".

I can't seem to find any information on how this works and were all my photos are? I just want the photos back on my phone so I can turn off icloud and turn it on again with another account.

Anyone have any info on this? Developer forums have nothing.
 
Long story short, I am switching my iCloud account to another developer account. I have iOS 8 on my 5S with iCloud photo library turned on. All my photos from my camera roll were in there. I turned it off and turned photo stream back on.

I now only have 106 photos on my device. I had over 1060 photos. The question is, how the hell do I get all my photos back? I turned iCloud photo library back on and it's "syncing".

I can't seem to find any information on how this works and were all my photos are? I just want the photos back on my phone so I can turn off icloud and turn it on again with another account.

Anyone have any info on this? Developer forums have nothing.

I don't think iCloud photos are working right in beta 2. If beta 1 hasn't expired, try loading that up and see if you can get your photos.
 
I don't think iCloud photos are working right in beta 2. If beta 1 hasn't expired, try loading that up and see if you can get your photos.

What's interesting is when I open the photo app, under Photos - all my photos are there. Under Albums, Recently Added/My Photo Stream, they top out at 106/166. Not sure what or why Photos is showing all my photos?
 
So I opened up iPhoto on my MacBook yesterday and it downloaded all my photos from photo stream. Basically all the photos I could no longer see on my phone are showing up correctly in iPhoto. I feel better knowing they are not lost, just glitched.
 
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