I want to retrieve a few deleted pictures taken on two different iPhone 3s. Is there any way to? If you know how, then please tell me, and when you do, just to let you know, I don't know anything about Apple terms like iCloud or "photo streaming" or what they are, so if you're going to use them can you please explain what those are and how to recover the deleted pictures step by step. Thank you.
iPhone 3G
If you don't know about icloud or photo stream, then you would not have a backup on icloud. The only possibility is if you've been performing backups to itunes on a computer or syncing photos to your computer, which is the suggested way of archiving photos. Then you would do either
1) restore your device from itunes, which means deleting everything from the device and restoring the backup from itunes, or
2) assuming you've been syncing photos to your computer, in iphoto on mac or some folder on a PC, then you can sync the missing photos back to the device using itunes.
If you haven't been doing backups, then the photos are gone, I'm afraid.
To recover deleted photos from your iPhone 3, use one of the following methods after connecting your phone to the computer with which you normally sync:
1. Right-click (or Control-click) the device and choose Restore from Backup
2. If you have a new phone, you can connect to iTunes and it will prompt to restore from your backup
Solution from Apple.com: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1766
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If you have a backup that contained those photos then yes you can. Just sync your phone to itunes and restore from backup.
also you should be importing your photos over to your PC as you would a digital camera, then you can sync it back via itunes http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083
How do I recover deleted photos from my iPhone 3?
