My iPhone photos have disappeared!

Mine says 780 photos in about but only 680 are showing in the photo stream. 100 photos are missing somewhere.

This saved my life! The same thing happened to me after my phone had been acting slow. I tried turning it on and off--didn't work. After snapping a few new photos, all my photos started (magically, may I add) restoring back into my phone. THANK YOU🙂

mines doing the same thing and i have never been so upset. nothing will restore it gets half way through and kicks me out of my photos.😠

If you have turned photo stream off then all the pictures you took prior to turning it off will be gone. Its on your iCloud. turn it back on and you should see them again.

This happen to me once when i turned my photo stream off. Thats why I don't use it because if you don't have data you lose the pictures and if you turn off photo stream you lose the pics.

Good thing is they aren't lost forever though.

Rob

wait how, did u just take pictures and then what? go back on the home screen and just wait or???

Yes, there are three ways to recover deleted or missing photos from iPhone

Method 1

Open Photos on your iPhone, select the Albums tab, and view the Recently Deleted album to check if the missing photos are there or not. This will contain pictures deleted in the last 30 days. If they are there, just select them and click “Recover” in the bottom right and confirm the recovery by tapping “Recover Photo” tab.

Method 2

If you have backed up your iPhone to iCloud before missing, you can also restore missing photos from iCloud backup. Don’t sync your iPhone with iCloud after you missing photos. Before you do this, first, you should check your last iCloud backup time.

And the Apple support link will show you how to restore iPhone from iCloud backup. Restore your device from an iCloud or iTunes backup

Method 3

If the above two methods don’t work, the last method you should try is a third-party data recovery software. Once you found your photos deleted accidentally, do not continue using your iPhone before recovery. You can read the guide here: Photos Disappeared from iPhone

I have had the exact same thing happen to me.

phone was running low on storage, becoming slow when I open app;s etc.

I take 1 photo and my entire Photo albums (30GB worth) disappears.. I can not see it in Settings>General>About BUT I can see storage space being used for it in Settings>Storage&Icloud usage>Manage storage>Photos & Camera 31.64 GB.

What I have tried -

1. to back up to laptop (bombs out - error as "iPhone disconnects" - yet it doesn't...

2. to sync to iTunes (bombs out - same as above)

3. to sync to icloud (but that's limited to 5Gb - did not buy extra storage)

4. taken it to istore - could not assist

ANY Help out there? except to lose all my photos...

I am having this problem currently (and it is almost 5am and many tears have been shed). I noticed a few days ago--12/7/16--while taking videos of my dog, the video simply stopped filming but didn't make the sound like it had ended, and my storage wasn't full (I don't think). The video appeared as a blank white screen, then loaded and at the end, it cut off before the video was finished. This is when I started worrying about my phone.

Tonight, my photos simply disappeared. My phone started running really slowly (swiping between screens, opening apps, etc.) and a black screen with a loading wheel appeared, then the lock screen passcode screen with the keypad showed up. I turned on my phone, opened photos, and it said there were 0 photos. Eventually they started loading, and it kept shutting off again, but if I was patient, they got very close to loading up to recent months, but mind you I have 11k+ photos/videos on my phone, and I only noticed it load around 8k before it quit out. Every time I open the photos app, it gets really slow and then quits, leaving me with 0 photos and 1,000,000 anxiety.

I have software version 10.0.1. I am too nervous to update it to the newest version (though I have downloaded it, could this have caused a problem???). If I go to Settings>General>Storage>Manage Storage, it says I have 40.43GB of photos on my phone.

I thought I backed my phone up a few days ago (which is when I downloaded the new software version), but there wasn't enough space on my computer to back it up. So my last backup is from September (three months ago).

I tried backing up my phone again, but after asking me whether I wanted to sync contacts (so yes this means I have synced my phone which I read I shouldn't do after losing photos, oops), it said "could not back up iPhone because iPhone has been disconnected" but it wasn't disconnected, the wire wasn't broken or anything. I tried multiple times and a different wire, same result. I am too nervous to do anything else.

PLEASE help. I am in shambles over these past 3 years worth of photos. I am honestly questioning my life's worth and whether or not I should be alive right now. Lol honestly please help me before I off myself due to meaningless media-related stress

Tl;dr: lost all 11k+ photos on my iPhone, but they're still there (the storage is still being taken up); can't backup phone because it says it is "disconnected" even though it isn't; haven't updated to new software but it is downloaded to my phone; very scared and upset and wanting to die help thank you

Having same problem. Phone has been low on storage, would time out and show the black screen with wheel. This Koenig I was moving videos off my phone to free up space and suddenly noticed most of my photos are gone, but the space is still used like they are still there. Rebooted phone and nothing. Where are my photos?!

This morning not Koenig - stupid autocorrect!

how to fix this problem ???

have you found a way to get them back?? i have the same problem

He did NOT write "restore". Don't be mean to someone in distress.