How to recover accidentally deleted photos from iPhone without a recent backup?

I accidentally deleted my photos yesterday, and then they were also deleted from the Recently Deleted folder. Unfortunately, this happened before I had a chance to back them up, so no recent backup was made. Please help me recover them if possible and please

I really need those photos back, so I would greatly appreciate any help you can provide in recovering them.

thank u


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iPhone 15, iOS 26

Posted on Feb 18, 2026 4:29 AM

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Feb 18, 2026 7:12 AM in response to hooria193

hooria193 wrote: …I accidentally deleted my photos yesterday,

It's pretty hard to delete pictures accidentally! When you accidentally push the button you get this:

It says "This will delete the selected photos from iCloud and all connected devices." We should take this warning seriously when tapping "Delete From All Devices."


A great safety feature on the iPhone is that deleted pictures remain in the "Recently Deleted" view for 30 days before they are removed permanently. This safety feature can be defeated, though, by choosing to prematurely delete pictures from the "Recently Deleted" view.  If you use iCloud Photos, then that "synchronizes" its Photos Library with the phone, so what you see on the phone is what is at iCloud. iCloud Photos doesn't keep pictures in "Recently Deleted" any longer than the phone does. So it's really important to look carefully at the Recently Deleted pictures before deleting them permanently. Unfortunately, there is no 2nd safety feature in case we didn't heed the warning for the first safety.


Unfortunately, if you don't keep your own backups to an external drive, then there really isn't any place else to look. To back up your pictures on your iPhone 15 you can just plug in an external drive, select pictures, and choose "Share>Save to Files" to make safe copies of your pictures.



Feb 18, 2026 4:33 AM in response to hooria193

If you have a backup on iCloud or iTunes, you can get almost everything depending on when the backup was taken.

If you have turned on Messages in iCloudiCloud Photos, Mail, Health data, call history under iCloud, and files you store in iCloud Drive your content is automatically stored in iCloud and is available on all devices that use the same Apple ID.


Regarding your data…

  1. If you have an iCloud or iTunes latest backup, then there is nothing to worry about. Just restore from it, else...
  2. If You have synced your data to iCloud, then what you will get back is what you have synced to iCloud and uploaded to iCloud Drive;
    1. The information that is synced and stored in iCloud, like Contacts, Calendars, Bookmarks, Mail*, Notes, Voice MemosMessages*, shared photosiCloud Photos*, Health data*, call history*, and files* you store in iCloud Drive.
    2. *-If you have turned on Messages in iCloudiCloud Photos, Mail, Health data, call history under iCloud, and files you store in iCloud Drive your content is automatically stored in iCloud and is available on all devices that use the same Apple ID
  3. You have imported your Photos & Videos to Mac/PC then they are safely residing there on Mac/PC
  4. You have uploaded some of it to Cloud Drives using the Files app (iCloud Drive, Google Drive, OneDrive, DropBox, Flickr, box, AmazonDrive, Adobe Creative Cloud etc). The data remains there.
  5. If you have not backed up or do not have the latest backup, nor imported nor you have synced or uploaded your data to cloud drives prior to the situation that you are in, then I am sorry, all your data is lost.


If nothing of the above is true then I am sorry to say you have lost the data and the device.




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