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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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116 replies

Jul 25, 2015 3:10 AM in response to JohnJackRice

This is completely possible since IOS 8.


Here's the guide:

http://www.imore.com/accidentally-delete-photo-iphone-or-ipad-heres-how-get-it-b ack


  1. Launch the Photos app on your iPhone or iPad running iOS 8 or later.
  2. Tap on the Albums tab in the bottom navigation.
  3. Tap on the album titled Recently Deleted.
  4. Tap on Select in the top navigation.
  5. Tap on all the photos you'd like to recover — or tap on Recover All at the bottom to recover all deleted photos.
  6. Tap on Recover in the bottom right hand navigation.
  7. Tap on Recover Photos in the popup menu

Jul 25, 2015 5:45 AM in response to -scstraus-

-scstraus- wrote:


This is completely possible since IOS 8.


Here's the guide:

http://www.imore.com/accidentally-delete-photo-iphone-or-ipad-heres-how-get-it-b ack


  1. Launch the Photos app on your iPhone or iPad running iOS 8 or later.
  2. Tap on the Albums tab in the bottom navigation.
  3. Tap on the album titled Recently Deleted.
  4. Tap on Select in the top navigation.
  5. Tap on all the photos you'd like to recover — or tap on Recover All at the bottom to recover all deleted photos.
  6. Tap on Recover in the bottom right hand navigation.
  7. Tap on Recover Photos in the popup menu

Yes, this has been noted a couple of times. What has also been pointed out is that when the OP (the person to who you are replying) asked this, iOS worked differently.

Dec 6, 2015 7:02 PM in response to JohnJackRice

An easy way to recover recently deleted photos is to go to the "Recently Deleted" photo album. If you have not permanently deleted them they should still be there and you will have the option to recover.


I am not certain what the time frame is until the photos are permanently deleted, but I believe they'll be there if they were deleted within the last day.

Dec 6, 2015 8:36 PM in response to Not tech savvy 111

It is important to pay attention to the date of the post you are responding to. You responded to JohnJackRice whose post is dated in 2013. There was no such thing as the "Recently Deleted" album until iOS 8 was introduced in 2014, so the solution you provided would not work with an iOS that was running in 2013.


FYI - Recently Deleted photos stay in the Recently Deleted folder for 30 days. There is a countdown timer that accompanies each photo showing how many days are remaining until each photo is deleted.


Cheers,


GB

Oct 5, 2016 12:46 PM in response to gail from maine

i dropped my phone to water after that i check it and it's LCD was destroyed and i have to change it .now after change it's LCD the phone did not turn on and they say if you change it's OS version it will be turn on but i have some photos and videos that i don't want to be lost them.

now if i change my OS version how can i recover my deleted photos an videos?

thank you for answering to me

iPhone 5: How to recover deleted photos?

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