When I back my phone up to I cloud do my photos have to go to photo stream or will it back up my camera roll

Hi can you help... I've backed my phone up to I cloud and I have 27 photos on my photo stream and 300 on my camera roll. If I restore my phone will I get back all my photos from iCloud??

An icloud backup will back up only the camera roll photos (assuming you have turned this on). When doing a restore, those photos should come back. Note that when restoring, the photo stream photos are refreshed from the PS server and thus only up to 30 days' worth of photos will come back to the photo stream on the device.
HOWEVER, it is always advised that photos be synced to a computer for archiving. Never rely on just icloud, as too many users have ended up losing their photos when doing a restore, for whatever reasons.

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Hi Am1121,
Welcome to the Apple Support Communities!
If you have a backup of your iPhone on either iCloud or iTunes from the time when those photos were on the Camera Roll, you can restore from that backup and recover those photos. Please use the following article for information on restoring from backups.
iOS: Back up and restore your iOS device with iCloud or iTunes
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
Have a great day,
Joe

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No and Yes
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If you want help, then contact Apple directly, but not here on a public user forum.

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As for whatsapp, ask the developer. That is not an Apple product.

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so if I stop backing up my camera roll and delete the ones stored on icloud - will it still send all new photos taken to my photostream?? I already save the photos on my macbook.
thanks sheri

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Tryed a bunch of things, such as going directly to icloud on Safari to open the mail message, no luck.
Tryed the following;
Went to iCloud and logged in via Safari, clicked on my account name in top right corner, selected "Advanced" on drop down menu, and selected "Reset Photo Stream".
Turned off Photo Stream on all devices and iPhoto.
Turned on Shared Photo Stream option on Mac iCloud preferences.
Tried the "Join This Photo Stream" button in my Mac Mail app .me account again.
Still got the error message.
Forwarded the original mail message to a yahoo account, selected "Join this Photo Stream" in the yahoo account mail (still in my Mac Mail app), and lo and behold, iPhoto opened and displayed the photos.
Could be this would have worked right from the start.
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