Q: After I purchased iCloud storage 30Gb worth of pictures disappeared from my iPhone...
Hello
Day after hard drive on my iMac failed, I decided to buy a piece of mind in 50Gb worth of iCloud storage to transfer from iPhone 6 all my pictures (since 2005). I logged in to iCloud next day to see if upload was successful and next checked my phone to find out that 5 years from my photo library is gone!!! I'm hoping TimeMachine will be able to recover all of them but for Christ how is this even possible? Can anyone tell me whether there's a pattern to get lost pictures back? It is yet another black eye in recent months to what I've experienced in Apple ecosystem.
iPhone 6, iOS 9.1
Posted on Nov 7, 2015 7:26 PM
Simple.
Iphone didn't exist in 2005. Pictures could have only been synced off the computer. OP did turn the library on. There was a warning that "all synced pictures will be removed". They were removed. Glad OP has time machine.
What OP should have done if he/she wanted to use library properly - start upload from the computer since it was original source for the phone. When he gets new one and restores time machine backup icloud library can be started properly. Now finally even on Windows.
Let me predict his next post.
"I didn't have or didn't see the warning"
Posted on Nov 8, 2015 8:53 AM