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How do you access photos from previous iphones?

How do you access photos from previous iphones?

iPhone 7, iOS 12

Posted on Oct 25, 2020 5:33 PM

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Posted on Oct 25, 2020 5:50 PM

Suzannelin2003 wrote:

How do you access photos from previous iphones?

If you no longer have these old iPhones, you can’t access photos from them unless you have them backed up to a computer where you could, sync them back to the new phone, use iCloud to transfer them or use a third party transfer app.

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Oct 25, 2020 5:50 PM in response to Suzannelin2003

Suzannelin2003 wrote:

How do you access photos from previous iphones?

If you no longer have these old iPhones, you can’t access photos from them unless you have them backed up to a computer where you could, sync them back to the new phone, use iCloud to transfer them or use a third party transfer app.

Oct 25, 2020 5:44 PM in response to Suzannelin2003

If this is for a brand new Iphone, then you can backup the old iphone, and restore the backup to the new one as part of the setup.


If you have already been using the new one and for example already have new photos on it, then the backup/restore process is no good. The easiest way will be to use I cloud. If you enable the old phone to upload it's images to Icloud, and then sync the new phone to Icloud, you'll get the photos over that way.


However you will need enough icloud space for all your photos (on both phones). In the worst case you might have to pay for one month of 200GB - assuming you don't want to continue using it after getting the old photos.


I cloud can also be used to transfer your photos to a mac if you have one.

How do you access photos from previous iphones?

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