iPhone 5: How to recover deleted photos?

matdawg6077 wrote:

You can go to Albums at the bottom and go to the recentley deleted pictures folder then go to the top and hit recover all or delete all or select the ones you want to delete or restore.

That feature didn't exist when the person to whom you're replying posted, two years ago.

Arorawry wrote:

Photos missing after iOS upgrade - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4362944?answerId=19787456022#19787456022 - different groupings for photos on mobile device and recovery options

i recently updated ios 7.1 software to ios 8.1.2 and i lost a lot of photos from photostream from my iPhone 5S, how i can recover these photos ?

Hey JohnJack,

1 - Super sorry that's the worst!

2 - I only went through 3 pages but no body seemed to say that you have a folder which says "recently deleted"! It's in your photos under your "albums" no backup is needed within certain time limit. I hope you find them!

lapeq wrote:

2 - I only went through 3 pages but no body seemed to say that you have a folder which says "recently deleted"! It's in your photos under your "albums" no backup is needed within certain time limit. I hope you find them!

The reason no one mentioned that is because, two and a half years ago, when the original poster asked this question, that option did not exist. If you had read the whole thread, rather than just part of it, you would have seen that you are not the first person to make this error.

Hopefully, in the intervening two and a half years, they have either found their pictures or resigned themselves to their loss. However, we may never know as they haven't posted since.

If you really don't backup photos to iTunes or iCloud, there is no way for you to recover. I am sorry about that. If you have backed up data to anywhere, you can still use a third-party program to help you recover.

Just in case you didn't notice - the OP you are responding to posted his inquiry over 2 1/2 years ago....

Cheers,

GB

Thanks for the advise! I didn't even think about my photo stream. I read your post and immediately checked my photo stream and sure enough my photos were right there! This was a quick easy fix.

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

-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.

gabrielpaetzold wrote:

If you still can't find out those photos, maybe you can try to use iPhone Data...... I remember this is recommended by an user in Apple support communities.

The only users it gets recommended by are spammers like you.

there are various iPhone data recovery can restore lost text messages, as long as the deleted texts are not overwritten by new data, you are able to recover them with the help of iPhone data recovery. Here, this article may help you get the details:

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thanhonap wrote:

there are various iPhone data recovery can restore lost text messages, as long as the deleted texts are not overwritten by new data, you are able to recover them with the help of iPhone data recovery. Here, this article may help you get the details:

I don't think so. Why we need data recovery software? iCloud wiil be the best.

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.

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