Photos has suddenly disappeared on my iPhone 12 Pro. How do I get them back?

Issue Solved with the help of Apple Support.

• Upgraded to the new 17.5
• Restarted phone- photos all appeared

Videos returned to library but had white thumbnails, would not play and were ‘all white’- no content.

While in photos

• tap select
• select the videos you want to restore
• share
• save to file

photos will ‘download to phone’

• then cancel

all selected videos are restored into library

I just had a similar issue

Photos and video from one whole day have gone- they are not in recently deleted, hidden or anywhere else.

They were retained for about 3 days until I noticed.

Strangely if I search for subject matter that I know was in the pictures, or the location they were taken the number of photos it states it as found is higher than those the phone shows.

Phone has plenty of memory left, did not delete them.

2 other things that happened between taking them and now The phone began slow to turn on/wake up a little, then in the morning on charge the screen would not turn on, so I had to press the vol buttons multiple times to wake it up and the restarted the phone

iPhone 14 pro

ios 17.4.1

1TB/ 697 GB available

Is your iPhone also using the Shared iCloud Photos Library, not just your personal iCloud Photos Library?

Then you may want to check the Settings > Apple ID > iCloud > Photos >Shared Library.

If you have "Share from Camera" enabled you photos will be removed from your personal library and moved to the Shared library right from the camera and you will only see them, if you are setting the toggle switch to "Both Libraries" or to the "Shared Library". If you have the automatic sharing enabled, I would turn it off. It might be annoying for the people you are sharing the photos with, if they are receiving each and every photo you are taking, before you can weed ou the bad shoats.

Thanks for the guess, however this is not the case in my situation.

The strange thing is that if I search for the photos with a key content or location the amount of images and videos it finds (eg. 171) makes sense- but when you tap on see all- only a fraction of the 171 show up - and none from the location or date that have gone ‘missing’

You have not yet mentioned, if you have checked the Hidden album and recently Deleted. are these two albums empty?

Can you recover the photos from the people you shared them with?

But you wrote in your initial post "Some of these photos I shared so I know I made them"? I have been hoping you could recover these photos at least.

I have checked those and all other folders