Where do Permanently Deleted Photos Go on iPhone?

Bummer.

If you didn’t have them stored somewhere else and they are not in the recently deleted folder, they are gone. There is no getting them back.

We cannot back up your photos and videos.

You are responsible for backing up your photos and videos You must make backups before catastrophe strikes. Afterwards is too late.

Yarbaba2 wrote:

Does that mean not even hackers can get it?

Only the ones with special magic powers.

i have been getting your phone is almost full..and only using apps from AT&T trying to be safe.so I’m doing 3 day-week free trial. Now anything I do pop up you’re running out of space. So I’m trying to delete them from my phone.. then it’s quick cleanup/ rid double photos etc. I’m afraid all of these are different. I’m and it says if I miss auto week is used. Help. I missed closing of store today but I’m in there first bell today. Sorry for long question..

On that note, I also had deleted some important photos that I am in need of now. Im sure they were backed up but im not sure how to retrieve them again as I had deleted them from recently deleted. Can you help me?

fei40 wrote:

On that note, I also had deleted some important photos that I am in need of now. Im sure they were backed up but im not sure how to retrieve them again as I had deleted them from recently deleted. Can you help me?

In order for us to help you, you'll need to tell us how you backed them up. Do you back them up to your computer? Did you store them in Google Photos? Burn them to a DVD?

Ok so pictures in that case will be no longer available to access by the user. What about Apple or someone else with malicious intent? What If I have s*x tapes or other sensitive information? Is that really gone forever or simply not available to the iPhone user? Is the "Recently deleted" the last stop for all files in the gallery?

This is the most imporant question I believe.

Honestly? I think this thread is full with mixed comments. I really wish all deleted files to be gone with the wind but who can actually tell for sure? is there an official Apple statement on that matter?

This reply is to pretty much everyone. I’m not 100% sure how Apple deals with their issues but I do know that there were pictures of mine come up missing that I could find nowhere even in the deleted file on my Google app and I got a hold of the Google One team and they did recover a great deal of them more actually that I thought I had missed , so there is obviously a way to do it if you can speak with the right person in that department with Apple

Same answer as on the previous 5 pages of this thread.

If you deleted photos from Recently Deleted on your phone......they are gone......unless you backed them up separately on another device or service.......before.....you deleted them from the phone.

Hello Universe669,

You might check to see if you have an old backup that might contain the photos. See this:

Locate backups of your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

Good luck.

when they no longer are in recently deleted then they are nowhere on the device anymoer

I wanna get my deleted iPhotos back

You might want to get the photos back, but that won't change the fact that they are not coming back unless you made backups on another device or service.