Retrieve deleted photos on iphone pro max ios 17.5.1

The Recently Deleted link under utilities only appears if there are items in Recently Deleted.

in photos, select albums from the bottom

scroll down past albums, shared albums, people & places, media types, then you’ll see utilities and links for imports, duplicates, hidden, and recently deleted

If you click on the "Albums" footer and cannot scroll down to the Utilities header, you may be inside the "My Albums" subview. Here's how to check:

If you see a line near the top reading "< Albums" at left, "My Albums" in the middle, and "Edit" near the right, you are in the "My Albums" subview that shows only your own albums. Click on "< Albums" to return to the main "Albums" view.

The main Albums view should have a line at the top with "+" at left, "Albums". in the middle, and "See All" at right. The scrolling area below should have a major heard "Albums" followed by lesser headings "My Albums", "Shared Albums", "People, Pets & Places" (or some variant), "Media Types", and "Utilities". Each of "My Albums" and "Shared Albums" has a side-scrolling area for their contents plus an option "Show All" to enter the corresponding subview.

Photos that have been recently deleted appear in the Recently Deleted folder for up to 30 days (unless further deleted from that location). Items deleted from Recently Deleted are permanently deleted and cannot be recovered.

if you think you lost all your photos, you can check your iCloud? You could see it there, just go to iCloud, and just sign in there and you might see your photos there.

The Recents view shows pictures in the order that they are imported but that may sometimes be an unexpected sequence-- it depends in part on the processing time for the pictures. The Library view shows the pictures in the order they were taken, but clocks may be off.

It's worth trying the "search" feature-- you can search by date, by location, by category (like flower or horse or car,) so sometimes you find "lost" pictures that way.

Really happy that, somehow, they were found!

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