Q: How to Recover deleted photos from iPhone 4S?

The accidental delete from my original post was not because I pushed the delete button on the phone. I had the phone attached to my computer and was copying the pictures to my hard drive using a copy and paste method, as well as deleting files by selecting them and asking the computer to delete the files. "Something" sudden happened and it wiped all of the images (about 5,000 of them in an instant!!). I had previously backed up the oldest 4,000 but had come back from a trip and lost the most recent ones that had not yet been backed up via iTunes and which were also not showing up in my Photostream. Photostream is another glitchy element as not all photos end up being transferred. I found "some" of them in Photostream but random and not at all complete or sequential.

It was not meant to be humorous. The Delete/Cancel is the second chance. You actually have to touch three buttons incorrectly to "accidently" delete a photo - Select, the Trash Can, and Delete. How many additional buttons would you have Apple add to protect you from yourself? The bottom line is that you should be backing up those photos that are so important to you regularly.

Back them up to iCloud daily, or import them to iPhoto or your computer's photo file on a regular basis. If you find that you can't go into your phone's photo app without "accidently" deleting photos you don't want deleted, then do the backup before you go into that app. If you have a backup, you can restore from that backup. If you have imported them, you can redownloaded them.

Adding yet another keystroke to the delete photos process would only annoy people who actually want to delete photos.

BTW - the OP's issue was that they had done an import to their computer, and when the dialogue indicating that "x photos have been imported, do you want to delete the originals from your camera" came up, they answered "yes". Then they found out that everything that they wanted imported was not on the computer. I highly recommend that when you do an import, you never say yes to that question. Check the imported photos on your computer first, then either re-sync to delete the newly imported photos, or go in and manyally delete them from the camera.

Cheers,

GB

It's interesting that everyone is willing to believe that such files are irretrievable.

That is quite UNTRUE.

I've (unfortunately) had to retrieve large amounts of data from my iPhone 4s.

It was expensive-- $275.00, but worth it for me.

You must send your phone to this forensic recovery company, which has been in existence for nearly 20 years.

This is a company which produces software for corporate, private and also crime investigation teams.  They are very good at what they do.

The company is LC Technology International.  If the mods leave this comment, then you can search for the company.  Go to "about us."

If they are unable to recover the data, they don't charge for their service. I've dealt with them since 1999.

Opps!!! sorry to hear that, but I need help too!!!! I lost all my data on phone. If there are any useful methods or software?

I'm responding to an old post, but in case anyone runs across this like I did . . .

Unless I'm missing something, there are quite a few pieces of software around with which you can attempt to recover photos or just about any other kind of data from your iPhone, ranging from around $42 - 80. They vary on what types of data they can recover - all seem to recover the basic types of around a dozen - and whether they can recover from either of the following three :  iTunes Backup, iOS Device, iCloud backup.

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Something seems to have gone awry with the forums here . . . the last three posts have gone missing.

Someone commented that all the softwares that I listed only recover data from previously existing backups.

But that's actually not correct.

In particular the primary objective of the five that I listed is to recover data from iOS devices (not backups), meaning that they will attempt to recover data from NAND memory on the device, if it still exists there.

(In addition, they can attempt to recover from backups - as commented in the list - but that is not the main objective.)

Remember, when you delete something on a device - whether it be a phone, laptop, desktop PC, whatever - in almost all cases the data is still present, just that the references and pointers to it have been deleted. You can even delete partitions on hard disks, yet the files still remain on disk, while it's the records which reference them that have been deleted. That's where data-recovery comes into play, which is what those pieces of software are all about.

In addition . .

Not all the softwares can recover all types of data and you'd have to dbl. check the "tech specs" for each.

For photos, some can recover them from iPhone4, but not iPhone5.

From just a cursory reading, it looks like only "Anydata iPhone Data Recovery" and "iPubsoft iPad iPhone iPod Data Recovery" can recover them all the way up through iPhone5.

But you really should check yourself and read the specs more closely.

Anyway, in general they're all free to try - to see what can be recovered - and then you'd have to pay if you want to have a working "Save" function.

i recently updated ios 7.1 software to ios7.1.2 and i lost a lot of photos from photostream from my iPhone 4, how i can recover these photos

i wsa update my iPhone 4 ios 7.1 software to ios7.1.2 with out contacting to my pc or i backup it ( updated by wireless) when i'm waiting the verify restart my phone and asked me to join my iPhone with pc by cable and i lost a lot of photos from photostream from my iPhone 4, so how may i recover these photos. please help...

i recently updated ios 7.1 software to ios7.1.2 and i lost a lot of photos from photostream from my iPhone 4, how i can recover these photos ?

i wsa update my iPhone 4 ios 7.1 software to ios7.1.2 with out contacting to my pc or i backup it ( updated by wireless) when i'm waiting the verify restart my phone and asked me to join my iPhone with pc by cable and i lost a lot of photos from photostream from my iPhone 4, so how may i recover these photos. please help...

PhotoStream is a temporary repository of photos for one month. It is primarily designed to share your most recent photos among your iCloud-enabled devices. A PhotoStream on a given device will contain up to 1000 of the previous photos until you reset it (which in your case is what happened). At that point, it will only recover photos from the current month.

There is no way to get them back - they are temporary. They should all still be on your Camera Roll, and they would still be in a backup if you have one (up to the time that the backup was taken).

You should be importing your Camera Roll photos on a regular basis to a PC or Mac. Neither the phone nor PhotoStream are intended as data storage facilities:

IMPORTING PHOTOS - WINDOWS/MAC

Sorry,

GB

Hello,

I recently got an iPhone 6 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 6, iOS 8

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Hi people. I happened across this forum like most because I lost (in my case) around five weeks worth of photo's and my biggest frustration was not even knowing what I'd deleted! I got lucky and this method won't help everyone but might help some Windows users (Windows 7 in my case) -after two hours of wasting time on third party downloads that simply want our cash above our satisfaction I thought to Right Click on the My Photo Stream (within iCloud Photos) Folder and I immediately noticed in the long list of commands "Restore previous versions", I selected this and found almost all (but ten or so brand new) pics. I know this method is probably obvious to many and only helpful to those with Windows but if it helps even one stressed iPhone user then it helps. Btw I may also have been a little fortunate because an automatic security update had backed up my files earlier that day. Good luck.

NB: Previously when I'd deleted my iPhone Photo Stream in my iPhone4s my related Windows Folder had kept intact but on this occasion it had synced with my deletions and I suspect a recent update caused this. If you disable the iCloud Photo Stream before deleting your stream it appears to leave your Windows folder intact. Mostly simple stuff but it does appear too **** simple to lose stuff without multiple backup.

TheBertman wrote:

 

Does ANYONE have any other solution?  I'm going to try as long as I can not to add anything to my phone, but it's going to get overwritten sooner or later...

You don't necessarily have to add anything to your iPhone just so you can recover photos. I know a lot of apps can be installed on PC and promised to be totally safe for your device.

ayeshaLoyd wrote:

 

TheBertman wrote:

 

Does ANYONE have any other solution?  I'm going to try as long as I can not to add anything to my phone, but it's going to get overwritten sooner or later...

You don't necessarily have to add anything to your iPhone just so you can recover photos. I know a lot of apps can be installed on PC and promised to be totally safe for your device.

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 ?

Carolonor:

research following tools:

http://datarecoveryforiphone.com/ios-data-recovery.html

http://www.dr-fone.com/index.html

http://www.iphonedatarecovery.org

http://www.any-data-recovery.com

http://www.easeus.com/mobile-tool/free-iphone-data-recovery.html

http://www.freeiphonerecovery.com

http://www.freeiphonedatarecovery.com

and so on ....

I do not know any of these softwares good enough to give a recommendation.