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Recover deleted photo

Hello everyone, I have an iPhone 6s 128 GB and accidentaly I deleted a photo from my iPhone trash that I wanted to keep. Instead of selecting 'Restore' I must have clicked "Delete' and confirmed. As it was a recent Christmas photo, I had not yet passed it to my PC or backed up in iTunes.


I want to know if there's any way to recover a deleted photo from iPhone, maybe using a software or something like that.


Please, if anyone knows how to help me I would be very grateful, because I really wanted to recover this lost photo that was deleted by a silly mistake.


Thank you and Merry Christmas to all

iPhone 6s

Posted on Dec 25, 2019 10:29 AM

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Dec 26, 2019 7:11 PM in response to thiago_roska

You can try anything you want, but you’ll likely just waste money. You see, iOS is a closed system, so you can’t just download software to an iPhone like you can to a computer. You can’t just connect some device to one either. Someone would need some very specialized tools, which you as a user likely won’t be able to access easily or affordable.

Dec 26, 2019 8:21 PM in response to lobsterghost1

I know that iOS is a closed system, but there's a lot of softwares, some free others paid, that claim to recover deleted data from some device. That's why I asked if someone knows any software that can presumably recover lost data from an iOS device.


So, if anyone knows any of these softwares that can be used on an iOS device, please reply to the thread.


Thank you

Dec 29, 2019 5:52 AM in response to thiago_roska

I don't think anyone knows how to help you recover one photo you permanently deleted without having a backup. I don't personally know of a paid service which will try to restore the photo. They will certainly charge you a fee whether they are successful or not. A friends daughter accidentally deleted many photos which they wanted back. One company said they could restore the photos, but the fee was $700 and they decided the memories weren't worth that much money.

Recover deleted photo

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