Where is my camera roll?

[goldnose]

I am so confused by this whole thing I am not even bothering with it

 

[bgro]

I remember the confusion surrounding iTunes Match. 🙂

I remember that also..funny how much of the confusion has to do with their cloud services. Because they simply don't do cloud very well.

 

[PNutts]

I am so confused by this whole thing I am not even bothering with it

Ditto. I don't know what the benefits are to me. When I take photos I copy them from my phone to my PC via Windows Explorer. From there they are backed up to my home NAS and also backed up to a cloud based backup service. I don't know how having a reduced quality copy on my phone will affect my process. I don't see a need *for me* to have a library in the cloud that is affected by all my devices and applicable computers. It just seems there are too many ways to inadvertently lose them. I've had too many issues with two-way synchronization processes to trust one with multiple multiple end-points.

 

[emulajavi]

If you think about it, it makes perfect sense. If iCloud Library is turned off, you have Camera Roll. Just like a camera. The pics you take, are on your device in a folder called camera roll. If iCloud Library is on, the main folder is called My Photos, because it shows all pics taken from any device in one folder.

Not truly true...

Because in the Camera Roll "album" not only are there photos TAKEN with the phone's camera, but also photos SAVED from received messages, whatsapps, safari or twitter saved, etc...

That's why I've always thought that it would make a lot more sense if iOS stored the photos in two separate albums distinguishing between TAKEN and SAVED photos.

Normally, iCloud Photo Library, Photostream and all that stuff is intended to be used to have the beautiful pictures you've TAKEN with the device camera available to be viewed in all of your devices; but I don't think it was intended to sync all the funny photos, and all the stuff your friends or group chats' share with you...

 

[ddublu]

Not truly true...

Because in the Camera Roll "album" not only are there photos TAKEN with the phone's camera, but also photos SAVED from received messages, whatsapps, safari or twitter saved, etc...

That's why I've always thought that it would make a lot more sense if iOS stored the photos in two separate albums distinguishing between TAKEN and SAVED photos.

Normally, iCloud Photo Library, Photostream and all that stuff is intended to be used to have the beautiful pictures you've TAKEN with the device camera available to be viewed in all of your devices; but I don't think it was intended to sync all the funny photos, and all the stuff your friends or group chats' share with you...

What if you took the picture with a different camera and saved it to your iPhone? Which category?

 

[acm1108]

What if you took the picture with a different camera and saved it to your iPhone? Which category?

I think you answered your own question

 

[ddublu]

I think you answered your own question

No, I didn't. I also said "took."

 

[acm1108]

No, I didn't. I also said "took."

If you took a photo with ANOTHER camera and SAVED it to your iDevice.... it would go in the SAVED folder and not the TAKEN folder.

Pretty simple logic.

 

[mpfuchs]

What if you took the picture with a different camera and saved it to your iPhone? Which category?

Wouldn't that be determined, if it either was a "beautiful picture" or a "funny photo"?

People hear the camera roll is back, and freak out when they don't have a folder called "camera roll".
Not even thinking what it means: all photos on you phone. Thus called "all photos".