Recovering deleted photos

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Samg2020 Author

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Recovering deleted photos

Hello, is there a way to recover deleted videos? I believe I deleted videos from my iPhone under the mistaken impression that they were stored in the cloud without realising that deleting them from the device will also remove them from the cloud. It’s been a few months now since I deleted those. I cannot find any local backups either. In the cloud backup, I only see photos from my cloud stream. Cussing myself for not taking a local backup, but that’s in the past now. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Posted on Jun 10, 2020 3:39 AM

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zinacef

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Jun 10, 2020 7:36 PM in response to Samg2020

Lots of folks mistakenly think or believe that iCloud is a true cloud-based backup like OneDrive, Dropbox, or Google Photos when in fact it is not. It is a syncing service that syncs your data across all of your devices.

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zinacef

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Jun 10, 2020 3:43 PM in response to Samg2020

If you happen to go to iCloud.com (via a browser), check the Recently Deleted folder.

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Samg2020 Author

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Jun 10, 2020 7:19 PM in response to zinacef

Thanks! These were deleted a few months ago, so they aren’t in the Recently Deleted folder. I was wondering if there’s some way to recover files deleted a long time ago.

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