Recovery of photos after a factory reset on iPhone

sasha733 wrote:

The problem is withlostphotoson an iPhonethatwasresettofactorysettings,and there was no backup.First, Ihad an iPhone7,andthenIwent around with an iPhone13 for a wholeyear,andItookphotosandthey weren'tsavedtoicloudstorage.thensomethingwent wrong with the 13thiPhoneandIdecided to cleanit,butIjusttransferredabsolutelyall the data(photos,videos,filesanddocuments)from the 7thiPhone to the13thiPhone.AndnowI have all the photosonlythosethatItookon the 7thiPhone,andall the photosthatItookon the 13thiPhone are gone.nowhow do IrestorethephotosthatItookon the 13thiPhone??The problem is withlostphotoson an iPhonethatwasresettofactorysettings,and there was no backup.First, Ihad an iPhone7,andthenIwent around with an iPhone13 for a wholeyear,andItookphotosandthey weren'tsavedtoicloudstorage.thensomethingwent wrong with the 13thiPhoneandIdecided to cleanit,butIjusttransferredabsolutelyall the data(photos,videos,filesanddocuments)from the 7thiPhone to the13thiPhone.AndnowI have all the photosonlythosethatItookon the 7thiPhone,andall the photosthatItookon the 13thiPhone are gone.nowhow do IrestorethephotosthatItookon the 13thiPhone??

No BACKUP = No Recovery. Those pictures are gone.

This case is no different from a dropped or dunked or lost or stolen iPhone.

Data that’s not copied elsewhere is gone, just as soon as the only copy is gone.

Flash (and SSD) storage works very differently than older storage, and data written to flash storage is encrypted, so potential data recovery mechanisms (“scavenging”, etc) from decades ago with then-unencrypted hard disk storage just isn’t happening here in ~2025.

No backups, and no iCloud or other hosted storage, no photos.

Here is how to:

• Back up iPhone - Apple Support
• Set up and use iCloud Photos - Apple Support

But this has to happen before the data loss.

Many of us have unfortunately learned this lesson about data loss by losing our own data, too.

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