iPhone 12 Pro Max I lost photos after changing apple id on iphone

[bassomaco89]

Hello everyone, I'll explain my problem: through my first apple id (appleid1) I had uploaded all the photos to icloud while I had saved them in an optimized way on the iphone. Yesterday, I changed the apple id to another one (appleid2) to another one to make a purchase. After making the purchase, and returning with appleid1, I lost all the optimized photos. On icloud, however, they are all still present. How do i get the optimized photos back on my iphone?
Thank you.

 

[DMG35]

Have you tried going into settings and made sure that iCloud photos is turned on? If so have you tried turning it off and then back on again?

 

[bassomaco89]

Icloud is disabled. When I try to activate it, I get this error message.
Basically it says that if I want to upload photos to iCloud I have to buy new space because it is almost full.
It seems that the phone cannot recognize the icloud that I already have (and therefore the photos that are inside) and therefore tries to load again the few photo that I have left.
It's a bit strange situation, maybe I should go to the apple store and see what they tell me.

 

[MacCheetah3]

Yesterday, I changed the apple id to another one (appleid2) to another one to make a purchase. After making the purchase, and returning with appleid1, I lost all the optimized photos.

In the future, if it’s only app purchases or downloads you need/want to make using a different ID, you don’t need to log out of iCloud entirely. You can switch accounts for just the App Store/iTunes Store.

Here's how to change your App Store Account on iOS 14 - JILAXZONE

Apple introduced a handful of new features to iOS 14, but at the same time, Apple also had removed and/or

jilaxzone.com

 

[posguy99]

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But you have a backup of your photos, right?

 

[now i see it]

iCloud photos has to start all over again apparently when you turn it off & log out. It's not smart enough to see that the photos in the cloud match the photos on the phone

 

[mebehere]

I hope you find a solution. I lost hundreds of photos when the bastards switched from (I can’t even remember the name of it) to iCloud.

Before iCloud photos, there was this feature that allowed, say, your iPhone and iPad to share photos. Same as now, you take a photo on your iPhone and it saves to your iPad too.

But you couldn’t transfer the photos you took on an older device (one that supported the old sharing protocol) to a newer device that ran a newer version of iOS (one that supported iCloud).

Anyone remember the name of the old sharing thing?

 

[mebehere]

My Photo Stream. That’s what that stupid crap was called. For some reason, a bunch of photos I had taken on my iPhone 5 were missing. So they didn’t carry over to my 6 or XR. Six months ago I broke out my old iPad 3, which contained all the missing photos. The software was so old it still used My Photo Stream.

Without doing any research, I simply turned My Photo Stream off and BAM! All those photos were gone. Forever. There was no warning. No prompt saying it would permanently delete those photos. But that’s what happened. No going back.

This was probably a year’s worth of photos and videos.

 

[ian87w]

My Photo Stream. That’s what that stupid crap was called. For some reason, a bunch of photos I had taken on my iPhone 5 were missing. So they didn’t carry over to my 6 or XR. Six months ago I broke out my old iPad 3, which contained all the missing photos. The software was so old it still used My Photo Stream.

Without doing any research, I simply turned My Photo Stream off and BAM! All those photos were gone. Forever. There was no warning. No prompt saying it would permanently delete those photos. But that’s what happened. No going back.

This was probably a year’s worth of photos and videos.

Sorry for the lost, but maybe you misunderstood the point of photo stream. Photo stream is not a permanent backup for your photos. The idea is for the user to review the last 1000 photos they took within the stream. If you want to keep the photos permanently, you move it to an album. The rest were just temporarily stored. It can be confusing, thus I'm glad Apple moved on to straight up iCloud Photos.

Here's a recap from Jobs himself

The concept of photo stream made sense back then when storage were not as plentiful as today. Buy I'm guessing people were confused and thought it was a permanent thing.

 

[ian87w]

Hello everyone, I'll explain my problem: through my first apple id (appleid1) I had uploaded all the photos to icloud while I had saved them in an optimized way on the iphone. Yesterday, I changed the apple id to another one (appleid2) to another one to make a purchase. After making the purchase, and returning with appleid1, I lost all the optimized photos. On icloud, however, they are all still present. How do i get the optimized photos back on my iphone?
Thank you.

You can only have one Apple ID for iCloud on your phone. So if your photos are in appleid1, you have to use that Apple ID. If you want all your photos to be with appleid2, then you have to download all of the originals from appleid1 and re-upload them to appleid2. iOS cannot have multiple iCloud accounts at once (a secondary account is possible, but only for iTunes purchases).

 

[DMG35]

You can only have one Apple ID for iCloud on your phone. So if your photos are in appleid1, you have to use that Apple ID. If you want all your photos to be with appleid2, then you have to download all of the originals from appleid1 and re-upload them to appleid2. iOS cannot have multiple iCloud accounts at once (a secondary account is possible, but only for iTunes purchases).

I think he's saying that he only has them on one Apple ID. He recently logged out of that AppleID and into another one. Now he's logged back into the AppleID that has the photos but iCloud isn't restoring the photos on his device.

 

[ericwn]

I hope you find a solution. I lost hundreds of photos when the bastards switched from (I can’t even remember the name of it) to iCloud.

Before iCloud photos, there was this feature that allowed, say, your iPhone and iPad to share photos. Same as now, you take a photo on your iPhone and it saves to your iPad too.

But you couldn’t transfer the photos you took on an older device (one that supported the old sharing protocol) to a newer device that ran a newer version of iOS (one that supported iCloud).

Anyone remember the name of the old sharing thing?

Was that the activity stream? With that around it was best to just make sure you get the stuff onto your Mac and backup from there.
Switched to iCloud Photos a few years ago and haven’t looked back though.

 

[ericwn]

My Photo Stream. That’s what that stupid crap was called. For some reason, a bunch of photos I had taken on my iPhone 5 were missing. So they didn’t carry over to my 6 or XR. Six months ago I broke out my old iPad 3, which contained all the missing photos. The software was so old it still used My Photo Stream.

Without doing any research, I simply turned My Photo Stream off and BAM! All those photos were gone. Forever. There was no warning. No prompt saying it would permanently delete those photos. But that’s what happened. No going back.

This was probably a year’s worth of photos and videos.

I believe it could carry your last 1000 photos at the time.

 

[posguy99]

But you couldn’t transfer the photos you took on an older device (one that supported the old sharing protocol) to a newer device that ran a newer version of iOS (one that supported iCloud).

Which has never been the case, of course. While it's terrible you lost content, the only person who's at fault is yourself. You have ALWAYS been able to copy photos off the iOS device.

 

[mebehere]

Yeah, I screwed up. But I still think the transition was flawed.

 

[posguy99]

Yeah, I screwed up. But I still think the transition was flawed.

If it forced you to do a backup, people would just whinge about that. The current thought is that backups are beneath the 'l337.