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How to restore photos and videos from iCloud to my iPhone?

How to restore photos and videos

Hi, I really need your help, I accidentally deleted all the photos and videos from all my arrangements without the ability to restore, and I ask your help to restore it all somehow!my whole life is there, everything has been removed from icloud and everywhere,please help!!



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iPhone 12 Pro

Posted on Dec 28, 2022 5:08 PM

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Dec 28, 2022 5:11 PM in response to KornelijusD

When you delete photos and videos they are saved in the Recently Deleted folder in the Photos app. If you remove them from there they are gone forever.


There are many ways of preserving photos and videos. Did you do any of these?


  • emailed, texted or messaged the photos to friends or family
  • iTunes backup (if you didn’t sync to iCloud)
  • Transfer your photos to your computer via USB cable
  • Apple Photo Stream
  • Sync to Google Photos
  • Sync to some other photo archiving service such as Shutterfly
  • Sync to Dropbox
  • Sync to box.com
  • Sync to Microsoft OneDrive
  • Sync to Amazon Photos
  • back up to Livedrive
  • Backup to any other backup or archiving service


A final option is if you synced your photos to iCloud, you have a Mac, and you use Time Machine to back up your Mac automatically, you can open Time Machine and restore the photo library to an earlier date. To do this on your Mac open Finder, then click on Pictures in the sidebar and launch Time Machine. Go to a time before the photos were deleted and restore

Photos Library.photoslibrary. (If you had ever changed the name of the photo library restore that file instead).


If the answer is no to all of the above your photos are gone forever.

How to restore photos and videos from iCloud to my iPhone?

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