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Help! I've lost my iphone with all my photos for last year that weren't backed up!!! :(

I've lost my phone and realized no photos have been backed up to icloud since Jan'19 due to storage limits. If I purchase more storage, is there a 'holding' area where previously potentially downloaded pictures to my personal icloud may be being held...i.e. a reserve cloud I could pay to access and then download to my personal icloud? I'm so sad and mad at myself that I lost all these pictures of my kids. Please help if you can.

iPhone 8 Plus, iOS 13

Posted on Dec 25, 2019 9:21 PM

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Eric Root

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Posted on Dec 26, 2019 12:52 PM

If you didn't have the storage space, the photos were not synced to iCloud. You won't be able to access the photos even if you buy more space.

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Help! I've lost my iphone with all my photos for last year that weren't backed up!!! :(

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