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No camera roll iOS 8

thaifood said:
The problem with the Photos tab as an alternative to the Camera Roll is that is also includes all my photos in albums I've synced on my phone (and interestingly some photos I have on my iPhoto on laptop, and not synced to phone).

I would prefer the separation because if I go looking for photos I know I've taken on my phone, I now need to trawl through all my album photos too ><
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Like I said: in this new system Apple disregards all of that. A photo is a photo is a photo regardless of source because they're not supposed to live on your desktop or laptop or whatever. They're supposed to live on Apple's servers.

And then there was the celebrity nudes scandal and they pulled the part where they house all your images. Amazingly that's what it took to wake them up to what an utterly idiotic idea it is to expect all their customers to give them all their photos.
 
Discrimination against senior citizens

Pardon the bad initial reaction on my part. I have since learned the tiny icons can be enlarged to the same size as IOS 7.
 
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Jimbo Asprilla said:
The main problem is there are a lot of apps which cant access you're entire photo collection
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Even Apple's own Photos.app doesn't seem to be able to access all photos on the device.

As I mentioned a couple of posts ago, on my iPhone there is a gap of ~800 photos of what Settings->Info says and what I can count in Photos.app.

On iPad I tried a different approach. Before updating to iOS8 I removed all synced albums and turned off everything photo-related iCloud option in iOS7.
When updated to iOS8 the rest of the photos (~80) that were still stored on iPad were all accessable in Photos-tab.

When I turned Photostream back on, the photos-tab was populated with a couple of photos from the stream. Now it counts 130 while Settings->Info says there are 250. Where are the missing 120 photos?

Could it be possible that the cloud-stored photos are count differently? That maybe the photos are downloaded in various resolutions that are each counted for Settings->info?
As the numbers don't match exactly, it doesn't seem to be that easy.

I'm hoping for imminent iOS8.0.1 that makes things a little clearer.
 
Jimbo Asprilla said:
The main problem is there are a lot of apps which cant access you're entire photo collection, if it's not in a specific album or in "recent" they aren't accessable !
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Quite true, I use whatsapp to send friends/family photos while travelling and I cannot access older photos which were in the camera roll.

I'll not have to add all camera roll photos to a photo stream to gain access.
 
I've been forced to create an album and selected all pics for it, but this is dumb because you have to routinely reselect everything, I can't believe this got through the beta process
 
Jimbo Asprilla said:
... I can't believe this got through the beta process
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When an issue like this which involves everyday use I wonder about the beta process. Would developers see or note something like this? Would they care? Is their main focus just to get their apps to work correctly?
 
Anyone know how to change the key photo thumbnail that shows in album view list? It's changed since upgrading to 8.
 
Robdmb said:
I just installed iOS 8 and am not seeing the option to save "optimized versions" on the device with the full resolution photos on icloud? Did this make it into the GM?
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You only see the optimised setting if you have iCloud photos turned on, and you can only turn iCloud photos beta on if... I don't know, if you are randomly selected?
 
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