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When I inadvertently signed to iCloud for my photos, most of them disappeared from my iPhone. How do I get them back?.

When I inadvertently signed to iCloud for my photos, most of them disappeared from my iPhone. How do I get them back?.

iMac (21.5-inch Late 2009), OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on Oct 21, 2018 11:08 PM

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Posted on Oct 22, 2018 6:04 AM

The usual reason that happens is that the photos were force-synced from a Mac to the phone via iTunes. Enabling iCloud Photo Library on the phone removes any force-synced photos, to avoid duplicates that would be caused when the same photos go from the Mac to the phone through the cloud.

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When I inadvertently signed to iCloud for my photos, most of them disappeared from my iPhone. How do I get them back?.

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