How to get photos from iCloud

I restored my iPhone settings and when I chose to back up from iCloud, not all of my pictures were there. How do I retrieve my pictures from iCloud to put back on my phone?

Posted on Jul 3, 2012 1:40 AM

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Jul 21, 2015 12:29 AM in response to SarahG11

If you mean photos deleted from your camera roll, they are supposed to be included in your iCloud backup (although unfortunately not all users report success in get photos from iCloud). If you made a backup while these photos were still in your camera roll, you may get them back by restoring this backup to your phone. (Note, restoring a backup will revert all settings and data on your phone to those contained in the backup, not just photos.)

Aug 12, 2015 10:17 PM in response to SarahG11

HI, Same problem here, I backed up my phone to iCloud and most of my photos became gray boxes after restoring to my new iphone6 OS8.4.

BUT

I tried to share all the gray boxes from the photos app , and voila , one by one the gray boxes be came photos and videos, again.

it seems sharing recovered all my lost photos from iCloud backup. sharing is a nice idea for recovery Apple

Dec 29, 2015 2:01 AM in response to michellekim789

michellekim789 wrote:


If you mean photos deleted from your camera roll, they are supposed to be included in your iCloud backup (although unfortunately not all users report success in get photos from iCloud). If you made a backup while these photos were still in your camera roll, you may get them back by restoring this backup to your phone. (Note, restoring a backup will revert all settings and data on your phone to those contained in the backup, not just photos.)

I don't think get photos from iCloud is a problem.

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