HT201317 how do I take old photos in my album on my ipad and have them go in my photo stream to see on my iphone. It's only streaming the new ones I take..

Question

I want to take my older photos in my Ipad and have them streaming to my iphone and computer..  As of now it's only streaming the new ones I take.. Is there an easy way to put the other ones on my photo Icloud stream so I can view them from all of my devices?

Answer 1

That's by design; photo stream only uploads photos taken after turning on photo stream, not earlier photos.  Adding earlier photos to photo stream can be done in a couple of different ways:
Open the photos one at a time and take a screenshot.  This will add a new low resolution copy of the photo to the camera roll, which will then upload to your photo stream;
Email the photos a few at a time to yourself, then save the attached photos to your camera roll.  This will add a copy of the photo at full resolution to your camera roll and upload to photo stream;
Use an app like PhotoSync, which will allow you to wirelessly transfer copies of all your old photos to your computer all at once.  Then delete these photos from your camera roll and use PhotoSync to transfer them back from your computer to your camera roll.  These will be the original resolution and will upload to your photo stream.  (You need an app like this because iTunes will not transfer photos back to your camera roll, where they must be in order to add to your photo stream.)