TS3989 Question on iPhone photo stream.

Question

I just enabled Photo Stream on my iPhone.  There are 230 pictures in my camera roll.  I do not see any of these pictures in "My Photo Stream".  It appears that only the new pictures going forward will be added.  Is that correct?  I would like to add all the pictures from my camera roll to "My Photo Stream".  Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

That's correct, only photos added to the camera roll after enabling photo stream are added.  To add existing photos, there are a couple of options:
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, 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.)
An alternative would be to create a shared photo stream from your camera roll photos and share it with your self (see http://help.apple.com/icloud/#mmc0cd7e99).