Photo Stream Backup

Took a picture on phone. Apparently never uploaded it to Photos.

It would have been in Photo Stream.

It was on a Shared Album, but I recently deleted it, not realizing that it was not in Photos.

Should it not be in a backup of phone done from Sync (encrypted, to my computer).

Where would I find it?m

iPhone 6s, iOS 11.2.6

Posted on Mar 8, 2018 10:14 AM

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Mar 8, 2018 10:26 AM in response to jack3030

Which version of MacOS X is running on your Mac?

Should it not be in a backup of phone done from Sync (encrypted, to my computer).

The iPhone backups do not include photos, that are in iCloud. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207428

But if you are backing up your Mac with TimeMachine, the My Photostream folders orchard albums may be included in the TimeMachine backup. On older versions of MacOS X you will find the shared photo stream photos in ~/Library/Application Support/iLifeAssetManagement/assets/pub/

and on macOS 1013.3 High Sierra in the folder

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.cloudphotosd/Data/Library/Application Support/com.apple.cloudphotosd/services/com.apple.photo.icloud.sharedstreams/as sets/


Try to find these folders in your Time Machine backup of your Mac.

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