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I impulsively deleted something’s from my phone last night and completely cleared them from my recently deleted. Today I tried to load an old ICloud save and I can’t find the photos anywhere. I thought things were backed up to the iCloud where they could be recovered, separate from the data on the IPhone itself.
iPhone 12, iOS 16
Photos are not backed up to iCloud. Rather, they are synced to iCloud. That means, when you delete them on your phone, they get deleted from everywhere they are synced to. Unless you had the photos on a computer that was backed up, they are gone. Unsolicited advice: take advantage of the Deleted folder as much as possible and let things sit there until they age out
Photos are not backed up to iCloud. Rather, they are synced to iCloud. That means, when you delete them on your phone, they get deleted from everywhere they are synced to. Unless you had the photos on a computer that was backed up, they are gone. Unsolicited advice: take advantage of the Deleted folder as much as possible and let things sit there until they age out
Can I recover fully deleted photos from the ICloud.
