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Accidentally deleted 2 videos from my gallery and recently deleted, is there a way to recover them?

I accidentally deleted 2 videos from my gallery and recently deleted aswell , they were very important videos for me! Is there any way to recover them , i dont have icloud or itunes backup.

I can pay someone who can help me. Thanks


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iPhone 13 Pro Max, iOS 16

Posted on Sep 5, 2023 9:47 AM

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Posted on Sep 5, 2023 9:56 AM

They cannot be recovered for any amount of money, so anyone who says they can recover them is a scammer.


There are many ways of preserving photos and videos. Did you do any of these?


  • emailed, texted or messaged the items to friends or family
  • iCloud photo sync
  • Manual iCloud backup
  • Automatic nightly iCloud backup
  • iTunes backup
  • Transfer your photos & videos to your computer via USB cable
  • Sync to Google Photos
  • Sync to some other archiving service such as Shutterfly
  • Sync to Dropbox
  • Sync to box.com
  • Sync to Microsoft OneDrive
  • Sync to Amazon Photos
  • back up to Livedrive
  • Backup to any other backup or archiving service
  • Transfer them to a Flash drive through the lightning port on your iPhone, using a product such as SanDisk 64 GB iXpand Flash Drive Go - Apple


A final option is if you synced your photos to iCloud, you have a Mac, and you use Time Machine to back up your Mac automatically, you can open Time Machine and restore the photo library to an earlier date. To do this on your Mac open Finder, then click on Pictures in the sidebar and launch Time Machine. Go to a time before the photos were deleted and restore

Photos Library.photoslibrary. (If you had ever changed the name of the photo library restore that file instead).


If the answer is no to all of the above your photos are gone forever.

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Sep 5, 2023 9:56 AM in response to Haroon_malikx

They cannot be recovered for any amount of money, so anyone who says they can recover them is a scammer.


There are many ways of preserving photos and videos. Did you do any of these?


  • emailed, texted or messaged the items to friends or family
  • iCloud photo sync
  • Manual iCloud backup
  • Automatic nightly iCloud backup
  • iTunes backup
  • Transfer your photos & videos to your computer via USB cable
  • Sync to Google Photos
  • Sync to some other archiving service such as Shutterfly
  • Sync to Dropbox
  • Sync to box.com
  • Sync to Microsoft OneDrive
  • Sync to Amazon Photos
  • back up to Livedrive
  • Backup to any other backup or archiving service
  • Transfer them to a Flash drive through the lightning port on your iPhone, using a product such as SanDisk 64 GB iXpand Flash Drive Go - Apple


A final option is if you synced your photos to iCloud, you have a Mac, and you use Time Machine to back up your Mac automatically, you can open Time Machine and restore the photo library to an earlier date. To do this on your Mac open Finder, then click on Pictures in the sidebar and launch Time Machine. Go to a time before the photos were deleted and restore

Photos Library.photoslibrary. (If you had ever changed the name of the photo library restore that file instead).


If the answer is no to all of the above your photos are gone forever.

Accidentally deleted 2 videos from my gallery and recently deleted, is there a way to recover them?

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