No camera roll iOS 8

[dcorban]

I'm getting photos from my son's iPad on here now (same account).

Also getting stupid photos I uploaded to Yelp and then deleted from my phone.


Really, really annoyed by this.

Why 'fix' it if it's not broken?!?

The new way is superior in most aspects.

Also, it is not intended for multiple users to share the same iCloud account.

Use the new family sharing. It segregates user data while still having an option to share apps, music, photos, etc. In my brief experience, it is far superior to sharing a single iCloud account.

 

[Surf Monkey]

The new way is superior in most aspects.

Also, it is not intended for multiple users to share the same iCloud account.

Use the new family sharing. It segregates user data while still having an option to share apps, music, photos, etc. In my brief experience, it is far superior to sharing a single iCloud account.

I love how you state your opinion as if it's objective fact.

Your opinion is not objective fact.

 

[Razeus]

I love how you state your opinion as if it's objective fact.

Your opinion is not objective fact.

You're clearly not going to let off it. Figure out a work around for whatever the heck it is you're trying to do.

For me, the 3 options are obvious and works well and vastly superior to pre-iOS 8 camera roll configs.

 

[Cloudsurfer]

The only thing I miss is that pictures downloaded from the internet and screenshots should be added to a different album.. My photo library is littererd with images and memes and accidental screen shots, it's annoying.

 

[ross1998]

Wait so how can I check my photo stream?

 

[chances14]

Very disappointed that they took the camera roll out. I much prefer the grid layout of the camera roll. Now I am forced to use the collections layout to view all my photos. Yuck!

 

[dadudeness]

Maybe they add Intelligent Albums: Camera model includes 'iPhone'. Could be a workaround for many.

But I'm having some problems with the way photos are displayed. There is no way I could see where my photos are stored:
- There are pictures that were in Camera Roll for years. They've never been uploaded to Photostream but, for sure, were imported to Mac-iPhoto a long time ago but left in Camera Roll.
- There are pictures that are synced from Mac iPhoto. They aren't stored in Photostrem as well
- There are pictures that were taken with any iDevice, synced to Photostream but were deleted from Camera Roll
- There are pictures that were taken with any iDevice, synced to Photostream AND Camera Roll
Now all of the photos are shown together in the Photos-tab.

I can't believe Apple is serious about this. When I want to show/upload/whatever a picture I know I took two weeks ago - why would I have to scroll through a bunch of vacation-pictures I took in the meantime that are Mac-synced to iPhone?

I really hope, Apple realizes this as a bug - not a feature.

 

[Surf Monkey]

You're clearly not going to let off it. Figure out a work around for whatever the heck it is you're trying to do.

For me, the 3 options are obvious and works well and vastly superior to pre-iOS 8 camera roll configs.

Nope. I'm not going to "let off of it" because in my opinion the system is now seriously broken.

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Maybe they add Intelligent Albums: Camera model includes 'iPhone'. Could be a workaround for many.

But I'm having some problems with the way photos are displayed. There is no way I could see where my photos are stored:
- There are pictures that were in Camera Roll for years. They've never been uploaded to Photostream but, for sure, were imported to Mac-iPhoto a long time ago but left in Camera Roll.
- There are pictures that are synced from Mac iPhoto. They aren't stored in Photostrem as well
- There are pictures that were taken with any iDevice, synced to Photostream but were deleted from Camera Roll
- There are pictures that were taken with any iDevice, synced to Photostream AND Camera Roll
Now all of the photos are shown together in the Photos-tab.

I can't believe Apple is serious about this. When I want to show/upload/whatever a picture I know I took two weeks ago - why would I have to scroll through a bunch of vacation-pictures I took in the meantime that are Mac-synced to iPhone?

I really hope, Apple realizes this as a bug - not a feature.

Exactly. The loss of distinction between "local" files and "photostream" files is very problematic. But if the attitude of several people here are indicative of Apple's dev team we're probably stuck with this screwed up mess and will have to abandon Apple software for photo management.

 

[irg82]

You don't need Camera Roll, there is already a list of all of your photos that has a different name.

Camera Roll was there first, and then they added the dumbass Moments feature that is pointless.

 

[Surf Monkey]

Camera Roll was there first, and then they added the dumbass Moments feature that is pointless.

Don't listen to anyone who starts their post with "You don't need..."

 

[jabingla2810]

Having 1 unified collection of photo's accross all my devices is what I've always wanted, edit on one, and it applies accross all my devices.

Never liked having a camera roll and Photo Stream, seemed messy.

I haven't updated to iOS8, but by the sounds of this thread, it hasn't left many people happy, but I'll hold judgement till I see it.

 

[navodwickra]

just updated to iOS 8. I noticed the camera roll is missing in photos. All my pictures are there under photos but not in camera roll under albums. Is there a fix for this. Or did I do something wrong. Thanks!!

Welcome to iOS 8, it is what it is. There is no camera roll anymore.

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I'm getting photos from my son's iPad on here now (same account).

Also getting stupid photos I uploaded to Yelp and then deleted from my phone.


Really, really annoyed by this.

Why 'fix' it if it's not broken?!?

Never share your iCloud with anyone, share you iTunes account but not the iCloud account. Bad move.

 

[snowglider]

There is a definite problem here. I have five photos in my (old) camera roll. They don't show in 'most recent'. I probably could find them in the photos tab given enough time (but it takes a long time to nail them down as there are lots of photos synced as albums from the PC.).

I also can't access those photos AT ALL from other apps. For example, if I go into facebook as an example and press the photo upload button, I can't access those 5 photos in any way. Facebook reports the camera roll as having 0 items (it's clearly reporting off the 'most recent' new folder).

Sorry, but this is a definite problem. Needs fixing.

 

[dadudeness]

I'm pretty sure it doesn't work the way Apple wanted it to work:

Settings -> Info tells me there are >1500 photos on my device

Photos.app -> Photos-Tab tells me there are <600 pictures and 2 videos.
Photos.app -> Album (which all seem to be included in the Photos-Tab so don't you can't add them to the ones above) count >300
Photos.app -> iCloud-Tab counts another ~100 shared photos.

So, where are the ~800 photos that are neither shown in Photos-Tab nor in iCloud?

It seems the missing are the ones that are saved in what was 'My Photostream' previously - and is not displayed anymore at all. Although the official iPhone User Guide For iOS 8 from iBooks says something about

Manage My Photo Stream contents. In the My Photo Stream album, tap Select.
[...]

There is no My Photo Stream Album on my device.

 

[ross1998]

The photo app takes a bunch of space now, I had 1.7 thousand photos in iOS 7 and it took around 4 gigs of space. With the update I got a message that I have zero bytes of memory. I checked what was using so much and photos and videos was using 8 gigs, I deleted 700 pics and freed 3.3 gigs. Is 5 gigs normal for 1 pictures?

 

[Born2run45]

people need to stop being so condescending. its clearly not working the way its supposed to for lots of people. on my phone the old photostream album was gone and "most recent" only contained what used to be in my camera roll. however, settings app showed that all the old photostream pics were still taking up space. a 3rd party photo editing app could even access them. they were clearly still on my phone but not displayed by the stock photo app. i turned photostream off and back on and the last months worth of pics reappeared in the most recent folder. all out of order. also there is no way to distinguish between what is actually on the phone and what is in photostream.

 

[mdwsta4]

Was going to try this, but there's not 'select all' option to add all images in my camera roll to another album. So instead I have to manually find the 500 photos that are in my Camera Roll in the thousands of images that are in Moments?!

Like others, I never used the moments section. A gigantic cluster of tiny images sorted only by date. No thank you. I do create albums on iPhoto for specific things, but my camera roll was always that; images taken on my phone to share whenever I wanted! Now that it's gone I'm supposed to remember when some image I took 4 years ago is located in moments then add it to a folder?!?! Absolutely ridiculous.

What I did as a work around it made a new album called "All" then added everything to it. It displays very much like the old photo album did. Of course I assume this won't include photos taken since I made the album.

 

[NMBob]

Hah, very funny.

But yeah for those of us who take lots of pictures, the way the new Photos app doesn't give you information on what's going on is daunting.

Apple doesn't think you need more information when you, or is it them, are stoned.

This is the same thing they did with books when Mavericks came out. They just ripped the books out of iTunes, put them some place "hidden", and said ***** you if you don't like it. On top of that it completely screwed things up if you had a lot of PDFs. I made a backup before updating to Mavericks, and within minutes I was back to Mountain Lion. I'm still there on my primary iTunes machine.

 

[HunterGather]

The only thing I miss is that pictures downloaded from the internet and screenshots should be added to a different album.. My photo library is littererd with images and memes and accidental screen shots, it's annoying.

Yes, I wish there was a seperate folder for all the screenshots I do. Clutters up the actual pictures.

 

[zorinlynx]

Yes, I wish there was a seperate folder for all the screenshots I do. Clutters up the actual pictures.

I wonder if this might be a good job for a third party. "Move screenshots and saved images". Basically throw all PNG files in a "Screenshots" album, and all images that weren't taken on the phone (you can find out easy with exif data) to a "Saved Images" album.

I'm not a developer or I'd be working on it now! Someone do this! I'd gladly throw a buck down for it.

 

[DarkAnnie]

I wonder if this might be a good job for a third party. "Move screenshots and saved images". Basically throw all PNG files in a "Screenshots" album, and all images that weren't taken on the phone (you can find out easy with exif data) to a "Saved Images" album.

I'm not a developer or I'd be working on it now! Someone do this! I'd gladly throw a buck down for it.

This! Until there's a fix, I will buy this app as soon as someone slap it together!

 

[sbailey4]

That works pretty good to recreate the camera roll. How can you add other photos to it after creating it?

In photos. press select (top right), select the picture you want then press the "add" bottom center. an add it to whatever album you want.

Also you cannot add a pic to an album, then delete the pic. It still deletes it across the board.

 

[zhenya]

I really don't understand where all my photos went that were on my phone or in my photostream before upgrading. I have about 90 photos in recently added, over 1000 in the 'Photos'/'Collections' section but only a limited subset of the photos I've actually taken over that period. I upload all my photos automatically to Flickr, so I can go to the Flickr app and see all the photos that are no longer visible in the regular photo app.

Any ideas?

In fact, looking on my iPad, most of my recent missing pictures are visible in the Recently Added view on the iPad, but not on the iPhone!

Yup, they are all there on the iPad in Collections - but again, some, but not everything is there on the iPhone.

 

[ddublu]

people need to stop being so condescending. its clearly not working the way its supposed to for lots of people. on my phone the old photostream album was gone and "most recent" only contained what used to be in my camera roll. however, settings app showed that all the old photostream pics were still taking up space. a 3rd party photo editing app could even access them. they were clearly still on my phone but not displayed by the stock photo app. i turned photostream off and back on and the last months worth of pics reappeared in the most recent folder. all out of order. also there is no way to distinguish between what is actually on the phone and what is in photostream.

Amen. It's really gotten bad. There is no way in hell people would talk to other people like this in the real world. Amazing how high and mighty folks have gotten behind the keyboard.

 

[lumine01]

Count me as another person who the new format doesn't work for and who is beyond annoyed.

What is the method for contacting Apple with feature requests? It's been so long since I have, I don't remember how I've done it in the past, heh.

To all of the "I know better than you about how you need to use your device" people: The existence of this thread and the fact that it's already almost 6 pages long lends evidence to the fact that you are incorrect in thinking your methods will work for everyone (or possibly for anyone else other than yourself.) With some of the comments I've seen, it reminds me of, "If you're crazy, do you know you're crazy?"...if you're a troll, do you *know* you're a troll?