How can I recover photos from my water damaged iPhone?

iPhone damaged water can’t reuse .trying to upload photos but unable to use face recognition and need lost or stolen protection removed

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iPhone 16e, iOS 18

Posted on Mar 26, 2025 10:43 PM

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Mar 26, 2025 11:36 PM in response to TonyGreen1944

Hopefully you were synchronizing photos to iCloud Photos – or making iCloud backups that included photos – before the phone got water-damaged.

Were you?

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