Hi, I just received my iPhone 6. I made an iCloud backup on my iPhone 5 and set it to factory settings. When I restored the iPhone 6 to the iCloud Backup of my 5 everything copied as should except for my photos. There were a lot of photos on my 5 that I can't miss. What did I do wrong? My friend didn't have this problem when he did the same steps on his iPhone 5 to iPhone 5S. (Both devices run iOS 8.0.2)
Please help!
iPhone 6, iOS 8
Were the photos that are now missing on your Photo Stream only? And were they older than 30 days old?
GB
No, they were in my Camera Roll
Did you ever import those photos to your computer?
Also, where are you looking for them on iOS 8? They won't show up in Recently Added if they are older than 30 days old. Tap on Photos, then tap on a photo to go to Collections, then tap on a photo to go to Moments and scroll to the bottom of the screen. Do you see them there?
Cheers,
GB
No I didn't. Now I wished I did though.
The Photo's tab shows: "No photo's or video's""You can take photo's and video's with the camera or sync them with your iPhone in iTunes." (Translated from Dutch)
I noticed that the backup file that my iPhone 5 made was 799 MB. This is way less than the 2,7GB backup file that my friends iPhone makes, so I guess the phone didn't upload the photo's to the backup file..
Lesson learned: back up everything in multiple locations as often as you can
Greatings,
Rich
Sorry Rich 😟
You might want to check your Backup settings as well, and make sure that the Photo Library is turned on under Settings>iCloud>Storage>Manage Storage>click on your Device, and you will see the list of items that are checked to be backed up. If Photo Library is not turned on, you want to turn it on.
For importing in the future, you can either import to your computer or upload them to a cloud storage like Dropbox:
Once they have been imported to a computer, they can be selectively sync'd back via iTunes:
Best of luck, and sorry about your photos....
GB
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Method 1: Recover Deleted iPhone Photos via iTunes
You can recover deleted photos from iPhone if you've a very recent iTunes backup.
1. Connect your iPhone to PC using the provided USB cable and run iTunes. Then click the "Device" tab".
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Photos missing from iCloud Backup
