My daughter turned in her iPhone without having a full copy of her photos in her cloud. I was hoping that if the iCloud backup service at one time had the photos backed up there may be a chance of recovering them.
iPhone 11, iOS 13
The backups are made in the cloud, so by definition anything in the backup is stored in the cloud.
If the photos where part of a backup, they will be restored when restoring the backup. There is no fee to restore the backup. Apple will not charge you for it.
Restoring the backup is fairly straight forward process. See here: Restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch from a backup - Apple Support
Note that anything on the iPhone when you restore the backup will get deleted from the device and replaced by whatever is in the backup.
The only backup you will be able to find is the last one that was able to be made before all the storage was used up. Whether that contains the photos you want can only be known once you restore it onto a device.
They do. It will even issue an error once it can no longer backup to iCloud due to lack of space.
Thanks. I was hoping to recover the photos that are not stored in a the cloud. My thought was that if apple had at one time saved the photos they could go back to an archive and recover them. I am sure for a fee.
Thanks. If you you are correct, that backups stop once the storage space is depleted then I am out of luck. I was hoping that it worked more like my dvr... where my older stuff was replaced by any new stuff..
No. Once icloud space is depleted, backups stop being made. However, any backup in iCloud will still be there.
If there is an available backup in icloud, you can restore that to the new iPhone it will restore whatever was backed up including any photos in camera roll at the time the backup was made.
When I run out of I cloud storage does the software keep backing up my newest stuff and removing my oldest stuff?
