Please help I’ve somehow deleted my best friends wedding pics from my recently deleted photos!!! So I can’t recover them, they’ve completely gone and I’m gutted! Is there anyway I can get them back somehow
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iPhone 12, iOS 16
Stacelee1987 wrote:
I contacted my network provider who seem to think apple support can access my iCloud?
Unless you had Advanced Data Protection enabled, your photos are not End-to-End encrypted and theoretically, Apple could access them. However, the practical reality is that 1) the photos have been deleted. I don't know what that does to Apple's ability to access the data. Once you delete something from your phone, it deletes it from all of your devices (assming you're syncing). 2)I don't think Apple will unencrypt the data without a court order. But you could certainly contact Apple and ask. There is a support link at the bottom left of every page in this forum.
Standard data protection
Standard data protection is the default setting for your account. Your iCloud data is encrypted in transit and stored in an encrypted format at rest. The encryption keys from your trusted devices are secured in Apple data centers, so Apple can decrypt your data on your behalf whenever you need it, such as when you sign in on a new device, restore from a backup, or recover your data after you’ve forgotten your password.
If you did have ADP enabled, they photos are inaccessible to Apple.
Stacelee1987 wrote:
I contacted my network provider who seem to think apple support can access my iCloud?
Unless you had Advanced Data Protection enabled, your photos are not End-to-End encrypted and theoretically, Apple could access them. However, the practical reality is that 1) the photos have been deleted. I don't know what that does to Apple's ability to access the data. Once you delete something from your phone, it deletes it from all of your devices (assming you're syncing). 2)I don't think Apple will unencrypt the data without a court order. But you could certainly contact Apple and ask. There is a support link at the bottom left of every page in this forum.
Standard data protection
Standard data protection is the default setting for your account. Your iCloud data is encrypted in transit and stored in an encrypted format at rest. The encryption keys from your trusted devices are secured in Apple data centers, so Apple can decrypt your data on your behalf whenever you need it, such as when you sign in on a new device, restore from a backup, or recover your data after you’ve forgotten your password.
If you did have ADP enabled, they photos are inaccessible to Apple.
No one else can access your end-to-end encrypted data — not even Apple. Im sorry to say but your photos are gone forever.
Read this article: iCloud data security overview - Apple Support
I understand your frustration, sorry to hear that. I just realized once you delete your photos from the recently deleted, you cannot retrieve them, now you know for next time.
Oh nooooo I’m so gutted!!! I want to cry. Do you know how I could try to do that? I’m not tech savvy hence how I ended up deleting them in the first place!!
Can apple support or anyone get them back?
I contacted my network provider who seem to think apple support can access my iCloud?
Unfortunately, if you delete photos from your recently deleted album, you cannot get them back. You can try going a previous iCloud backup to retrieve these photos, though its hard to retrieve deleted photos forever.
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Apple cannot access any of your personal data, that is all secure to you. Once you delete them from the recently deleted, they are deleted forever, no one can retrieve them.
Deleted my best friends wedding pics from my recently deleted photos
