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My old was not backed up and i got a new one and signed in to with my same Apple ID and i don’t have any of my pictures

is there a way to recover my photos from my old phone when my old phone wasn’t backed up.


iPhone 7

Posted on Jan 11, 2020 6:24 AM

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Posted on Jan 11, 2020 6:30 AM

No, not unless ...


  1. you downloaded them to a computer from which you could sync them back onto the new phone
  2. or if you were using iCloud Photos in which case enabling the setting on the new phone would allow them to download from the cloud.


Does either apply to your situation? If not, the photos are gone.

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Jan 11, 2020 6:30 AM in response to chopo224

No, not unless ...


  1. you downloaded them to a computer from which you could sync them back onto the new phone
  2. or if you were using iCloud Photos in which case enabling the setting on the new phone would allow them to download from the cloud.


Does either apply to your situation? If not, the photos are gone.

Jan 11, 2020 6:52 AM in response to chopo224

First of all, that only works if you were already using iCloud Photos. I mean no offense by this, but chances are, if you have to ask how to do it, you weren’t using it.


Take a look and see if this seems familiar. It explains how iCloud photos works.

Set up and use iCloud Photos - Apple Support


If you were using iCloud Photos, your photos are not included in your backups.


My old was not backed up and i got a new one and signed in to with my same Apple ID and i don’t have any of my pictures

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