Ok... what happened to my camera roll?

[Surf Monkey]

You're wrong. Photostream does not download the source file. It downloads a preview. It dynamically loads the source file as you view individual images.

Second, I never claimed that photostream was intended for sharing amongst others. It was promoted for sharing amongst your devices. That isn't the issue. The issue is the removal of the distinction between photostream/Cloud Drive and local. Apple wants you to see them as one in the same. THAT'S the central problem.

See, these basic gaps in your understanding of how it works are why it's kind of pointless to continue discussing it with you.

 

[cynics]

Ok... what happened to my camera roll?

Hmm looks like I do have a misunderstanding of photostream LOL

 

[2IS]

Removal of it isn't user error but the ignorance of not reading it caused you a headache lol. I find it funny how angry you are over it all. As you said, daft. You're entertaining.

Again, read the thread. You failed to do that because if you had, you'd have known your "concern" was already addressed multiple times. Instead you decide to enter the thread midway and pretend you got it all figured out and overwhelm us with your intellect. You did, not in the manner in which you probably envisioned.

 

[MsZee]

You do realize the photos you see now ARE in chronological order right ?

They are sorted by date. That is the definition of chronological.

Well, both yes and no. Like for example - I sometimes save pictures of the net (for inspiration etc...) and then in the chronological view under Photos it will be placed when it was created/uploaded on the web/or whatever - but in the camera roll it would stay in chronological order as to when I saved it. What do I care if it was actually from 1997?

 

[zhenya]

Surf Monkey, did you hear about iOS8's compatibility issue with services like Dropbox?

Since Apple changed the name from Camera Roll to Recently Added, DB recognized older photos as new, unique images and re-backed them up, taking up more of users' allotted space and causing server overloads.

PS Don't pay heed to Padmini. Your input is welcome in an open forum.

Have any links to good threads covering this issue? Among the many problems I'm having with these changes is just this - all my wife's pictures got mixed in with mine, and now a TON of old pictures have been added to my Recently Added list and are being backed up automatically to Flickr for me (for what might be the 3rd time during this fiasco).

 

[MsZee]

Let me get you a diaper and warm milk.

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Wrong again. It gets put in the RECENTLY ADDED album, regardless of date. So in other words, anything you just added to your phone goes in that album. However, it WILL be in chrono order on the Photos section of the app.

I just tested this myself with a few old photos I downloaded to my device from Google Drive and a few from the Save Photo option in Facebook.

You guys are complaining for no reason.

Ok that it will be added to the recent photos NOW - but what about the 8000+ pictures I already added??

 

[Nipperserphil]

The removal of Camera roll simply makes it a royal pain in the a$$ to remove local copys of photos from the iPhone.

Pre iOS8 I would simply take the photos, wait until they had been uploaded to the photostream and then delete the local copys from the camera roll to free up space in my phones memory. If I needed to access a photo again on my device, I'd simply select it from the stream and it would re-download.

To achieve this now I have to do the following:

1. Wait for the photos to be uploaded to the stream (which now involves a bit of guesswork unless I have access to another device)
2. Switch off photostream on my phone.
3. Now delete the local photos from the photos tab.
4. Delete them again from the Recently Deleted folder under albums.
5. Re-active photostream and wait for all the data to snyc with the phone again.

Now I have my photos visible once again in the photos tab, and the local copy is gone. This procedure works ... but it ain't pretty.

 

[zhenya]

The removal of Camera roll simply makes it a royal pain in the a$$ to remove local copys of photos from the iPhone.

Pre iOS8 I would simply take the photos, wait until they had been uploaded to the photostream and then delete the local copys from the camera roll to free up space in my phones memory. If I needed to access a photo again on my device, I'd simply select it from the stream and it would re-download.

To achieve this now I have to do the following:

1. Wait for the photos to be uploaded to the stream (which now involves a bit of guesswork unless I have access to another device)
2. Switch off photostream on my phone.
3. Now delete the local photos from the photos tab.
4. Delete them again from the Recently Deleted folder under albums.
5. Re-active photostream and wait for all the data to snyc with the phone again.

Now I have my photos visible once again in the photos tab, and the local copy is gone. This procedure works ... but it ain't pretty.

Hmm. This is concerning. My wife makes do with 16GB because that's what her employer provides her, but she takes a ton of pictures and video so I have to constantly sync her phone to iPhoto on the computer and delete the images stored on the phone.

I wonder if this method will still be available or does it get all mixed up with these other issues??

 

[DarkAnnie]

Just the other day, I was trying to find a photo I saved online, quite a while ago on my phone. I could not for the bare life of me find it in moments, as I had absolutely zero idea in what category or timeframe it would have tossed this particular photo, mixed in with thousands of other pictures.

I have downloaded the MyRoll app, and I went in there, and after not too much scrolling through actual viewable sized thumbnails camera roll style, voila there it was. Took me less than 20 seconds. MyRoll is for now, my savior till this mess is hopefully sorted.

 

[nikicampos]

Ok that it will be added to the recent photos NOW - but what about the 8000+ pictures I already added??

Don't listen to that guy, what he didn't say is that after a few days, it will get deleted from Recently added and the only way to find it is in photos tab Collections/Moments when it was taken, yes, it's so annoying to look for a photo when you have no idea when it was taken, and you end up scrolling thru 2000 photos until you find it.

 

[OldMacDonald1]

Have any links to good threads covering this issue? Among the many problems I'm having with these changes is just this - all my wife's pictures got mixed in with mine, and now a TON of old pictures have been added to my Recently Added list and are being backed up automatically to Flickr for me (for what might be the 3rd time during this fiasco).

Hi, haven't come across any, which is why I wanted to bring it up. You can find articles about DropBox's problem and solution if that helps.

Or start a thread asking for help

 

[brilliantthings]

This is the 20th time im posting this . At this moment no one who understands it from now is just trolling

Your recent photos are your recent photos

All your remaining photos are in photos tab, if you want those remaining photos saved locally you go to the photos tab, chose a moment , click share , save all photos in the moment and they will all save locally in recent photos.


Get it ?!

Very easy to understand. Get it. Just don't like it.

 

[2IS]

iOS 8.1

Looks like apple acknowledging they got it wrong. Glad there are still enough Apple consumers who have a mind of their own that make some noise when apple makes a change for the worse.