Seeking help for lost photos not backed up to iCloud

toqa129 wrote: … apple support suggested a recovery app or tool that might help me recover these photos any suggestions on any app that might help me recover them ?

I fear that Apple Support has mislead you. In older, spinning mechanical drives, deleting a file really just removed its name from the catalog so its space could be used later by other files. So back then, if you got to it in time, before that space was replaced by another file, you could use recovery software to show what was in all that unassigned space with leftover text. But with modern solid state drives, it just doesn't work the same way. And, of course, there are still companies that sell these apps. Sometimes they show you something that might be left in a cache, somewhere, but that seldom gets anything but random garbage. So you might see something, but never what you want. People get fooled into thinking that the software is working, though it never works for them.

Ultimately, there is no 2nd safety feature in case the "forever deleted" warning was ignored and, if you don't keep your own backups to an external drive, then there really isn't any place else to look.

Where were your photos and how did you lose them?

If they were in the Photos app then there's a folder called "Recently Deleted" in "Utilities" where deleted pics go for 30 days.

If they were on a Mac and you deleted them recently from a folder then there's a slim chance you could get some of them back using recovery apps, but before we go there you need to give us more details exactly what happens.

This is a good time for you to start thinking about backups for all the stuff you don't want to lose. You need backups. Note that iCloud is not a backup. Do some research on these boards and the web to find a backup method that works for you.