iCloud Drive folder disappeared

I had a folder on my icloud drive, that containts many years of pictures. Now it disapeard. It is not in the trash. How can I find or restore it. 3 weeks ago it was definitly still there.

Posted on Feb 9, 2026 1:27 PM

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Feb 10, 2026 8:49 AM in response to udo163

Just to be clear-- were these pictures in the iCloud Drive portion of your Files App? Or were they in the Photos app?


Can you tell us a bit more?

  • What model is your phone?
  • What iOS does it use?
  • Are you using iCloud Photos to synchronize your devices? If so
  • …Do you have “Optimize Storage” checked in Photos’ Settings
  • …Do you see all your iPhone pictures at iCloud.com?
  • …Have you checked to see if the Apple Account is really really the same on  the iPhone and at iCloud.com?
  • …Do you have more than 10% free storage on your iCloud account?
  • What is your storage on this iPhone? At Settings>General>iPhone Storage, my phone says 50.5 GB of 128 GB used. What does yours say? Do you have more than 10% free storage on your iPhone?


I've never had a folder just disappear in iCloud Drive, so I'm not sure what happened.

iCloud Drive folder disappeared

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