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Markm50 Author

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Lost iCloud photos

My daughter got a new iPhone and was trying to delete pics that she thought had transferred. However they were on iCloud and she deleted and then deleted the deleted folder. I tried to recover from the iCloud site but no luck. She lost about 5000 pics. Is there any thing that I can do? Can you restore the phone back to a previous point? Get them via legit third party app?? Thx.

iPhone 11 Pro

Posted on Nov 27, 2020 8:22 PM

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zinacef

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Nov 28, 2020 5:39 PM in response to Markm50

Once photos are removed/deleted from the Recently Deleted folder in iCloud Photos, they are permanently gone.

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Lost iCloud photos