iPhone 5: How to recover deleted photos?

Hello,


I recently got an iPhone 5 and been happily snapping away. However, the other day managed to delete a load of photos that didn't want to delete.


I'm travelling and don't have a computer or have made any backups, via iTunes and neither Photostream or anything like that.


I'd really like the photos back and wondering if there is a way of doing it? I'd put some in the app "Photo Vault" to try and keep some secure, but they're gone as well.


I've used SD card software to recover photos from SD cards before with some success, and was wondering if there's a similar thing for iPhone?


Thanks

iPhone 5, iOS 6.0.2

Posted on Jan 17, 2013 10:22 PM

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Sep 8, 2014 8:39 PM in response to JohnJackRice

When you want to recover iPhone photos, you are not allowed to connect your iPhone to computer directly, because iTunes will save the recent data automatically. First of all, you should check whether you have the backup files
iTunes> preferences> devices
All your backup files are listed.
Then click iTunes>preferences> devices "prevent iPhone from syncing automatically." select OK and close the window after checking" don't sync"
Now you can connect iPhone to PC and recover deleted photos from iPhone. What you should notice is that is based on you have the backup files.
If you are not lucky to erase all pics....Sorry to tell you that you cannot get them back unless you don't mind some third party tools.



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Sep 14, 2014 10:40 AM in response to JohnJackRice

I've lost all my phone Contacts, Photos, apps when update itunes software. Updated files size was 1.2 GB. My iphone after update is empty.

When i connected iphone to computer, itunes ask for update itunes software, which size was 1.2GB and after downloading update, it restart my iphone automatically and after started iphone all files, photos, contacts, apps was lost. When updating software my iphone was connected to computer. sorry for my english 🙂

This software downloaded and updated from itunes downloads

Dec 2, 2014 5:39 PM in response to The Sheriff Of Cosham

Thank you, Sheriff: Worked for me too 🙂


Image Capture (native Mac OS X app) had shown two copies of all new photos on my iPhone, I had deleted one of the two copies for each of the "double" photos, just to find that both photos (if there every actually where two) were deleted once I connected the iPhone again the next day.


<rant> The way that photos are organized on iOS is highly confusing and very frustrating (camera roll, photostream, albums, iCloud, iPhoto, Image Capture, iTunes etc..., I really have no time to think through some designers non-intuitive approach. Why not just have photos that are either on the device or they are not, and I can copy them to my computer via USB cable and Finder, that would be all functionality needed for me). Also, why are photos shown double in Image Capture? Why don't I see the photostream in Image Capture? I don't get it... could all be much more intuitively organized and better thought through IMHO </rant>

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