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Recover Lost Photos

Hello, I was managing my storage on my phone and I deleted my recent deleted photos on accident. They are extremely important photos of when I gave birth. Could you help me recover them?

iPhone 12 Pro Max, iOS 14

Posted on Dec 27, 2021 9:22 PM

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Posted on Dec 27, 2021 9:36 PM

You’ll have to call Apple Support to see if they can do anything for you. iCloud Photos is a synchronisation service, so once the photos are gone, they’re not stored anywhere, like how an iCloud Backup works [which lets you select from a few older backups], and iCloud Backups don’t include photos, since they’re supposed to be synced.. You’d only be able to get them back if you had manually backed up the photos to a computer via Finder or iTunes, including photos specifically in the backup.



The only other thing I could think of, is if you have another Apple device, that synced with the photos, before deletion, that’s powered off. You would have to disable any way of it from connecting to the internet (ensure that it doesn’t connect with your phones personal hotspot), turn off your internet router etc., and then boot it back up once sure.. Then you would be able to share the photos to another app. You could save the photos to the Files app for example. Then, once checked in the Files app that the photos are present, you would enable internet on the device, and send them to another one, say, by email for example to be safe.


In future, just get more iCloud Storage, so you don’t have to worry about deleting photos because you have none left.

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Dec 27, 2021 9:36 PM in response to almavenosa1

You’ll have to call Apple Support to see if they can do anything for you. iCloud Photos is a synchronisation service, so once the photos are gone, they’re not stored anywhere, like how an iCloud Backup works [which lets you select from a few older backups], and iCloud Backups don’t include photos, since they’re supposed to be synced.. You’d only be able to get them back if you had manually backed up the photos to a computer via Finder or iTunes, including photos specifically in the backup.



The only other thing I could think of, is if you have another Apple device, that synced with the photos, before deletion, that’s powered off. You would have to disable any way of it from connecting to the internet (ensure that it doesn’t connect with your phones personal hotspot), turn off your internet router etc., and then boot it back up once sure.. Then you would be able to share the photos to another app. You could save the photos to the Files app for example. Then, once checked in the Files app that the photos are present, you would enable internet on the device, and send them to another one, say, by email for example to be safe.


In future, just get more iCloud Storage, so you don’t have to worry about deleting photos because you have none left.

Recover Lost Photos

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