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iOS8: photos gone missing, even from 'Photos' tab

Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2014 2:26 am
by simonmlewis
Hi all

A friend of mine has an issue. The Apple forum seems abit slow, and the guys here are always on the ball!

I upgraded my iPad to iOS8 and at first like many, I panicked when my photos Camera Roll and Photo Stream vanished. Only to find them all in the Photos tab, in the date order.

But my friend had loads of photos from her son's graduation party, and all sorts of others.
These photos are not in Recently Added as they were taken several months ago. And they aren't in her Photos tab, as she has shown me the three pages of photos, and there are none like that.

So where might they have gone?
I have got a lot of photos on my iPhone (iOS7.1), around 350 in my Camera Roll. I'm worried that if I do the update, Thsoe in the Photo STream may go to the date area, but the majority in the Roll will just disappear.

Can someone help please?

Re: iOS8: photos gone missing, even from 'Photos' tab

Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2014 4:10 am
by simonmlewis
UPDATE: my friend had pictures uploaded to their photo stream via a laptop. I know if oyu take a photo and it goes to the stream, it only stays for so long. But if you do it via laptop, it stays forever. Yet all hers have gone since the update.

Re: iOS8: photos gone missing, even from 'Photos' tab

Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2014 4:08 am
by simonmlewis
Got an answer from Apple yesterday about this.
Camera Roll has gone, as we know. It's all in the Photos area, where it's in date order.

But if you (like myself and so many others have done) used the desktop 'Add Photos' button on My Photo Stream to send pics to your phone, and then kept them in Photo Stream, they are likely GONE from your iPad or iPhone.

They still show on your desktop, as they are stored there. So I had to upload about 400 photos which are not on my device.

They haev told me it has been a big error. And the chap I chatted with admitted he misses the Camera Roll display, and hopes it will return, as people like spinning thru their photos in that tiled view.

Re: iOS8: photos gone missing, even from 'Photos' tab

Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 2:41 am
by namal
Well ours were all built with a separate subdomains, so I think I have a lot of work on my hands to start to update them all.