{"id":9752,"date":"2014-10-08T09:53:08","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T13:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=9752"},"modified":"2016-02-12T14:25:44","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T19:25:44","slug":"ios-8-photo-stream-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/08\/ios-8-photo-stream-confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 8 Photo Stream Confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I previously noted that <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/19\/ios-8-removes-camera-roll\/\">iOS 8 removed the Camera Roll<\/a>. The files from the camera are still stored on the iPhone, but they now appear under Recently Added.<\/p>\r\n<p>Recently, I&rsquo;ve found that the situation is even more confusing than I had thought. I used Image Capture on the Mac to delete lots of photos from my &ldquo;camera roll&rdquo; and free up space. With iOS 7, these photos would have been in both the Camera Roll and Photo Stream. The Image Capture clean-out would have removed the duplicate copies, and I would still be able to see my recent photos via Photo Stream in the Photos app.<\/p>\r\n<p>With iOS 8, I am instead seeing behavior that makes no sense. The photos are still in Photo Stream, as verified in Aperture, but they are no longer visible on the phone. This is the All Photos view in the Photos app:<\/p>\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/images\/2014-10-08-ios-8-photos-app.png\" height=\"568\" width=\"320\" alt =\"iOS 8 Photos\" \/>\r\n<p>There is no more Photo Stream section of the Photos app, but I had expected to see the Photo Stream photos mixed into the above view. Indeed, <a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT6464?viewlocale=en_US&amp;locale=en_US\">Apple says<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT6464?viewlocale=en_US&amp;locale=en_US\"><p>In iOS 8, there&rsquo;s no longer a separate My Photo Stream album. Instead, photos that were in the My Photo Stream album are now in the Recently Added album.<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<p>But that&rsquo;s not what happens. In the Photos view, I see just a small number of recent photos (not cleared out with Image Capture) and some photos synced from iTunes. The Recently Added album only shows the former.<\/p>\r\n<p>Even more confusing, the Settings app shows that Photo Stream is using 1.0 GB of space for photos that it won&rsquo;t show me:<\/p>\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/images\/2014-10-08-ios-8-photos-usage.png\" height=\"568\" width=\"320\" alt =\"iOS 8 Photos Usage\" \/>\r\n<p>Hopefully this is just a temporary hiccup until iCloud Photo Library is ready. The thing is, I don&rsquo;t want Apple to store all my photos, and I don&rsquo;t want to devote 1.0 GB of space on my iPhone to recent photos. All I want is to have new photos taken on the iPhone automatically transfer to my Mac without having to plug it in or manually initiate an import.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I previously noted that iOS 8 removed the Camera Roll. The files from the camera are still stored on the iPhone, but they now appear under Recently Added. Recently, I&rsquo;ve found that the situation is even more confusing than I had thought. I used Image Capture on the Mac to delete lots of photos from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[131,1142,1268,31,904,450,153,927],"class_list":["post-9752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bug","tag-icloud-photo-library","tag-image-capture","tag-ios","tag-ios-8","tag-photostream","tag-photography","tag-photos-app"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9752"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13542,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9752\/revisions\/13542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}