Retrieve old photos into iPhone

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Retrieve old photos into iPhone

Hi folks

Appreciate your advice to retrieve my old photos that was once on iCloud.

My situation: I was using iPhone 6 64GB a few years back and had taken around 40k photos and videos, all were on iCloud. Once it was broken, I replace it with an iPhone 11 128GB. While they werent synced to my new iPhone at all, I guessed they were still on iCloud (still took up massive space of 190+ GB on my iCloud) so I have been in no hurry to retrieve them, knowing they are safely stored and can be extracted someday.

A few months back, my iCloud subscription expired and were not renewed until earlier this month. Once renewed, I checked on the storage and the photos still take up around 190GB of iCloud storage so I think they are still there.

Now I want to retrieve some of them but my phone say it doesnt have sufficient space to download the photos. Could someone please guide me on how to retrieve them please?

Thank you very much.

iPhone 4s, iOS 9

Posted on Apr 14, 2024 4:20 AM

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Apr 14, 2024 4:22 AM in response to BirdieTran

If it is not in the Recently Deleted Album then either you have deleted them 30 days earlier or have never deleted any.

Please check the following

When you create a backup of your iPhone using iTunes or iCloud, it captures a snapshot of your device's data at that specific moment. If you later delete any data from your iPhone, such as photos, messages, contacts, or any other information, and then perform a new backup, the deleted data will also be removed from the new backup. The backup process essentially reflects the current state of your iPhone, and any changes made to the data will be mirrored in subsequent backups. So, be cautious when deleting data from your iPhone, as it will be permanently removed from future backups as well. If you wish to preserve specific data, it's important to keep it on your device until after the backup has been completed. Backup methods for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch
If you sign out of Apple ID sign backing with another Apple ID after you had turned on Messages in iCloud & iCloud Photos, your content is safely stored in iCloud and is available on all devices that use the same Apple ID.
If you have restored your iPhone with a backup that does not contain the Photos that you are looking for then please look for the correct backup on your PC/Mac --> Locate backups of your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple ...
Do you have a correct backup (iTunes) --> Restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch from a backup ...
If you have restored from iCloud backup, then note the following
1. iCloud backup doesn’t include information that is synced and stored in iCloud, like Contacts, Calendars, Bookmarks, Mail, Notes, Voice Memos, shared photos, iCloud Photos*, Health data, call history, and files you store in iCloud Drive.
2. *-If you had turned on iCloud Photos, your content is automatically stored in iCloud and is not backed up.
Probably you may have un-synced photos with Mac / PC, sync them again
1. For PC: --> Sync photos in iTunes on PC with devices - Apple Support
2. For Mac --> Sync photos between your Mac and iPhone or iPad - Apple ...
Have you ever imported your photos to Mac/PC and used "Delete After Import" --? Transfer photos and videos from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod ...
If not found anywhere, have you ever uploaded them to any Cloud Drives (iCloud Drive, Google Drive, OneDrive, DropBox, Flickr, box, AmazonDrive, Adobe Creative Cloud etc)

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