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Accidentally deleted some photo thumbnails from iPhone. The full versions are in iCloud. I can see them on iCloud.com. How do i get my iphone to “see” those photos and make them viewable in my Photos library again?

Accidentally deleted some iCloud photo thumbnails from my iPhone. The full versions are in iCloud—not in deleted folder: they are in iCloud photos and I can see them on iCloud.com. How do i get my iphone to “see” those photos and make them viewable in my Photos library on the phone again?


I tried creating albums on iCloud.com with those photos missing from my phone, thinking they wd show up in My albums on the phone. Can’t see those albums either—maybe it takes awhile for those changes to show on my phone? I also tried signing out and back in to iCloud. That didn’t work either.

iPhone 6s, iOS 12

Posted on Dec 23, 2020 9:47 AM

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Dec 23, 2020 10:23 AM in response to FoxFifth

They are not there in the deleted folder. The photos were not deleted. They are in iCloud. It is only the “reference” low weight photos that are missing from the phone. This happened when I shut off iCloud for photos while in process of uploading to the cloud because I ran out of iCloud storage. I clicked on a prompt that removed the low weight photos from my phone. I thought the full res versions wd stay on my phone but they were already uploaded to iCloud and removed from my phone. So now I have neither the “lower weight” versions nor the full res versions on the phone, even though they are in iCloud (and also backed up on my large desktop Photos library that does not use iCloud because it’s too big). I want the phone to recognize the full icloud library that is there.

Accidentally deleted some photo thumbnails from iPhone. The full versions are in iCloud. I can see them on iCloud.com. How do i get my iphone to “see” those photos and make them viewable in my Photos library again?

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