My recently deleted photos album is missing

Check to make sure that you are looking at the "Albums" display (large word "Albums" at the top, smaller words "My Albums" and "See All" below).

If the top line reads "<Albums My Albums Edit" then you are in "My Albums"; click on "<Albums" to get back to the top "Albums" display, then scroll down past "My Albums", "Shared Albums", "People & Places", and "Media Types" to find "Other Albums". Under "Other Albums" should be "Imports", "Hidden" (if you have any hidden items), and "Recently Deleted" (also if you have any such items).

It's harder to find than before (at least it was for me). Open the Photos app, tap Albums at the bottom of the screen and then scroll all of the way to the bottom of the "Other Albums" section.

Here is a screenshot of what Mark is describing:

After tapping "Albums" at the bottom scroll directly down to the bottom of the list of albums. On no account tap the tempting red herring "See all" or you will have lost.

Then the recently Deleted album should be there, even if it is empty. Sometimes I am not seeing it at all, if it is empty, but usually it will be there.

But did you recently delete photos at all?

I have used about 43 GB of 200 available,

Are the 43GB available in iCloud Photos or locally on your iPhone?

I know only two reasons why recently Deleted will not be shown:

• if you do not have any iCloud storage left
• or if you just removed photos from albums and did not really delete photos

And did you recently restart your iPhone, so the Photos.app will refresh its data?

Which version of iOS is running on your iPhone? And have you restarted the iPhone recently?

Did you delete any photos after you upgraded your Cloud Storage? As a test, take a new photo and delete it immediately. Does that bring the Recently Deleted album forward?