Q: If my iphone is stolen how can i retrieve photos from stolen device via photostream or icloud

If you have photos from the phone that are still in Photo Stream you can turn on Photo Stream on your Mac following the instructions in iCloud: My Photo Stream FAQ  That assumes that you had Photo Stream turned on and that there are photos still in it.

If you did a backup to iCloud before your lost the phone, you cannot restore that to your Mac. It will only restore to an iOS device.

The following has instructions: iCloud: Restore your iOS device from iCloud

Note that the restore will overwrite anything you have added to your new phone; e.g. if you have taken photos on your new phone you will want to copy them to a computer first as described in iOS: Import personal photos and videos from iOS devices to your computer

I'm not sure what you mean by "blocked via the iCloud" -- maybe you mean "locked"?

If there was no passcode on the phone and if the person insures that the phone doesn't have internet access (via either wi-fi or cellular data) then whoever has it could access the data on the phone. The most you can do is Erase the device as described in the following link and hope that it eventually gets internet access so that it will receive the signal telling it to erase. Do NOT remove the device from your account as that would turn off the Activation Lock and allow them to use the phone. This is per the following quote from If your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch is lost or stolen

Erase your device. To prevent anyone else from accessing the data on your missing device, you can erase it remotely. When you erase your device, all of your information will be deleted from the device, and you won't be able to locate it using Find My iPhone. After you erase a device, you can't track it. If you remove the device from your account after you erase it, Activation Lock will be turned off. This allows another person to activate and use your device.

The erase should take place the next time the phone is on and connected to a data network (via wi-fi or cellular). There is no need for them to enter your password. More details: iCloud: Erase your device

They don't have to enter your Apple ID password for that to happen. Do NOT give them your password, now or ever. They do not need to enter anything for the erase to take place. It just needs to connect to a data network (and that may not be possible if the phone is outside of your cellular carrier's area and if it cannot connect to wi-fi).

Do NOT remove the device from your account. The quote below is from If your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch is lost or stolen

What if your iOS device is off or offline?

If your missing device is off or offline, you can still put it in Lost Mode, lock it, or remotely erase it. The next time your device is online, these actions will take effect. If you remove the device from your account while it's offline, any pending actions for the device will be cancelled.

There isn't anything else you can do at this point to make the phone erase -- you have done what you can do. If the phone did not have a passcode, they have likely already had access to your data if the phone is in a foreign country since it wouldn't be online (connected to wi-fi or cellular) unless they intentionally did that.

prudacris wrote:

 

i cannot remotely erase the iPhone right now when i go to the 'find my iPhone' app. It tells me the device is offline and when it connects to wifi it will be erased. How can I remotely erase the iPhone and then remove the device from the 'fjnd my iPhone' app?? because right now, someone who was sold my stolen iPhone is emailing and asking that I remove the icloud block, but I want to make sure that my devices content is erased. As I am understanding it now, if I remove the device from 'find my iPhone' then the erase process will not take place and the person who has my phone will be able to access my device with all my content in tact.  Is this true?

If you mean photos deleted from your camera roll, they are supposed to be included in your iCloud backup (although unfortunately not all users report success in recover photos from iCloud).  If you made a backup while these photos were still in your camera roll, you may get them back by restoring this backup to your phone.  (Note, restoring a backup will revert all settings and data on your phone to those contained in the backup, not just photos.)

Hello,

I have experienced a similar issue and the following steps are what I did to recover deleted photos from iPhone.

Normally all photos from iPhone or iPad correctly push to photostream and it works.

But on a recent travel the photostream pushing seemed "spotty" and some random pictures taken with iPhone were/are  not pushed to photostream. On the destination there was a (slow) wifi connection, might have something to do with it - but even after getting home to my faster wifi connection the remaining photos in my camera roll are still not pushed to photostream from the iPhone.

The missing photos not being pushed from the iPhone to photostream are random in timeline ("spotty" pushing).

Any ideas on why this happens?

I guess after connecting the iPhone to my Mac the entire camera roll will load into iPhoto, and iPhoto on Mac will do the remaining "pushing" to photostream; will have to wait and see with the help of iPhone Data Recovery.

But this issue purely is about incomplete pushing from iPhone camera roll to photostream.

Once you are in need of recovering deleted photos from your iCloud backup files, FonePaw iPhone Data Recovery can help you in a very easy and efficient way. It empowers you to take a scan and preview your iPhone data, so that you can choose the photos that you want to recover from iCloud backup files. Besides, you can also tick other files, such as contacts, videos, messages, App data, etc. to recover them at the same time.

Guide here: How to Retrieve Photos from iCloud