Recovering photos from iphone

How to recover deleted photos from iPhone?

Hello,
Yesterday either I or my iPhone threw a fit and deleted some photos for good, and now you want them back. How to recover deleted photos from iPhone? I’ll appreciate your guidance!

We’re there to help you on your quest. Luckily, Apple leaves you many ways to recover deleted photos from iPhone, you just need to know where to go.

So, keep calm and follow our instructions on how to recover deleted photos:

How to retrieve deleted photos on iPhone

By default, pictures taken with the Camera app are saved to Photos. The Recently Deleted folder in the Photos app is the first place where you can find deleted photos on iPhone.

Go to Photos -> Albums -> Scroll down to find Recently Deleted section.

Click on Select in the top-right corner -> choose the images to restore -> press Recover.

Your recently deleted photos will be safely returned to Camera Roll.

Recover permanently deleted photos iPhone

Summary table

If your photos cannot be found in Recently Deleted, you will need to up your game and consider using specialized software. We have two options for you here, CopyTrans Backup Extractor and CopyTrans Cloudly. See what they can do below:

🖥️ iTunes	🌤️ CopyTrans Cloudly	👾 CopyTrans Backup Extractor	☁️ iCloud
Requirements	iPhone and cable	PC and Wi-Fi	PC and Wi-Fi	iPhone and Wi-Fi
Recover data from iTunes backup	✔️	❌	✔️	❌
Recover data from iCloud backup	❌	❌	✔️	✔️
Leave other iPhone data intact	❌	✔️	✔️	❌
Recover photos without backup	❌	✔️	❌	❌
Restore photos to iPhone	✔️	❌ *you can transfer them to iPhone later	❌ *you can transfer them to iPhone later	✔️
Extract photos to PC	❌	✔️	✔️	❌

Recover deleted photos

from iTunes or iCloud backup

If your photos are not in Recently Deleted, they may be in one of your backups – in iTunes or in iCloud.

What is a backup? Do I have any?? There is no need to worry about it with CopyTrans Backup Extractor: it will deal with any backup for you and recover deleted photos.

With CopyTrans Backup Extractor, you can:

⭐ find all your iTunes and iCloud backups (automatically!)
⭐ extract your deleted photos to PC
⭐ extract other data types to PC

You can then transfer your recovered photos back to iPhone.

Let’s go through retrieving deleted photos step by step:

Download and install CopyTrans Backup Extractor. If you need help, refer to the installation guide.

Start the program and click on Find Backups.

☁️To see iCloud backups, click on “iCloud Backups” and log in to your iCloud account first.

You will see a list of all available backups: choose the one that contains your photos. If you are restoring from iTunes backup, you may be asked for a backup password. What password?

iCloud backups are never password-protected.

Select Photos, then click Extract.

Select the destination folder and confirm. Wait… CopyTrans Backup Extractor is wielding magic.

Now you can click on “Go to folder” to see all the photos migrated there. You can now transfer recovered photos back to iPhone.

How to retrieve deleted photos

YouTube guide

For those who love visual instructions, we prepared a video guide on how to get deleted photos back:

Transfer recovered photos back to iPhone

After you’ve recovered permanently deleted iPhone photos to computer, you can transfer them to iPhone in a couple of clicks. See how to:

Use CopyTrans Photo to transfer photos to iPhone:

Restore deleted iPhone photos without backup

If your photos were not in the backup, maybe they were synced to iCloud before you deleted them? If so, it is time for desperate measures: CopyTrans Cloudly. The software has a chance to recover deleted photos if they were removed from iCloud.

CopyTrans Cloudly will:

⭐ go to iCloud servers;
⭐ search for all your photos Apple hasn’t deleted yet;
⭐ recover deleted photos to your computer.

You can then transfer your recovered photos back to iPhone.

We’ll show you the way to recover permanently deleted photos iPhone:

Download and install CopyTrans Cloudly. If you need help, refer to the installation guide.

Run CopyTrans Cloudly. Sign in with your Apple ID. We use SSL connection to protect your data, so you’re safe!

To recover deleted photos from iCloud, click on “Rescue” and choose the folder you want to save them to.

If your deleted photos and videos are still on the Apple servers, CopyTrans Cloudly will download them back to your PC.

A-and done! The photos are waiting for you in the destination folder. You can now transfer photos back to iPhone.

CopyTrans Cloudly will show you the number of photos available and download the first 100 photos at once: you will be able to see if they are the ones you need. We recommend that you rescue all the photos on the same day, as Apple may swiftly delete the photos after we access them.

Once you’ve decided to restore, please make haste!

TIP: CopyTrans Cloudly can also help you:

Transfer recovered photos back to iPhone

After you’ve recovered permanently deleted iPhone photos to computer, you can transfer them to iPhone in a couple of clicks. See how to:

Use CopyTrans Photo to transfer photos to iPhone:

Restore deleted photos to iPhone from iTunes Backup

If you managed to find a recent backup in iTunes, consider yourself lucky: it will restore deleted pictures to your iPhone.

☹️ All the data and settings on your iPhone will be erased and replaced with data from the backup;
😐 You can only restore photos to iPhone, not to PC.

If you’d like to restore your photos to PC – use CopyTrans Backup Extractor.
If you’d like to restore only photos to iPhone – use CopyTrans Shelbee.

If you are OK with it, here is how to restore your photos using iTunes:

1. Run iTunes and connect your device to PC;
2. Wait until your iPhone appears on iTunes top panel and click on the iPhone icon;

Click on “Summary” to open a summary screen; then click on “Restore Backup”;

Choose the backup you need and click on “Restore”.

If your backup is encrypted, enter your iOS backup password. What password?

Now just wait until the process finishes.

Here you go! Your photos are safe.

Restore deleted photos from iCloud backup

☹️ All the data and settings on your iPhone will be erased and replaced with data from the backup;
😐 You can only restore photos to iPhone, not to PC.

If you’d like to restore your photos to PC – use CopyTrans Backup Extractor.

First, make sure that you have a valid iCloud backup that contains deleted photos. On your iPhone, go to Settings -> Apple ID -> iCloud -> Storage -> Manage Storage -> Backups. You should be able to see the device, date, and size of the last backup.

If you have the backup you want to restore, go ahead and reset your device. Yes, you’ll need to erase all content, but we will get everything back! Go to Settings -> General -> Reset -> Erase All Content and Settings.

Restart your device. Go to Apps and Data, select “Restore from iCloud backup” and log in to your iCloud account.

Select the backup that contains your deleted iPhone photos.

Hope one of these methods will help you recover deleted photos. Please make sure that you back up your device on a weekly/monthly basis to ensure the safety of your precious memories.

CopyTrans 7 Pack

If you want to manage iOS device, CopyTrans offers you many options:

✔ Save your iPhone music on PC or iTunes with CopyTrans

✔ Manage iTunes library with CopyTrans Swift

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How to Recover (Permanently) Deleted Photos from iPhone

Whether you want to recover (permanently) deleted photos from your iPhone with or without a backup, you will find a solution to get back your deleted photos on the iPhone.

Also applies to: The latest iPhone 12 series

Overview of iPhone Photo Recovery

Data loss occurs almost daily. It’s no exception when it comes to your iPhone. The loss of your precious photos may happen due to reasons like accidental deletion, human error, physical damage, iOS update, jailbreak, factory reset, and more.

Generally, if you accidentally deleted photos from your iPhone, you can easily recover these deleted pictures from the Recently Deleted folder. Or you can recover permanently deleted photos from a backup you made before. Even if you don’t have a backup available, you can apply third-party iPhone recovery software to retrieve your lost photos.

Thus, there are five workable ways for you to recover deleted photos from your iPhone. Specify your situation and apply the one that fits your needs most to get back your lost pictures.

Part 1. Recover Deleted Photos from iPhone from the Recently Deleted Folder

The easiest way to recover deleted photos from an iPhone could be restoring the deleted items from the «Recently Deleted» folder. This folder could keep the photos and videos you remove for up to 40 days. During this period, you can freely recover the deleted files to your photo library.

If the photos you want to retrieve are deleted from your iPhone within 40 days, follow the steps below to get them back.

To recover deleted photos from Recently Deleted:

Step 1. Open the Photos app and tap «Albums».

Step 2. Scroll down to choose «Recently Deleted».

Step 3. Tap «Select» and click the photos you want to recover.

Step 4. After the selection, tap «Recover» > «Recover Photos» to get deleted photos back.

Part 2. Recover Permanently Deleted Photos from iPhone in 4 Ways

If you have emptied the Recently Deleted folder or you have removed the photos for more than 40 days, these items are permanently deleted.

Then how can you recover permanently deleted photos from your iPhone?В

Retrieving permanently deleted photos from iPhone could be easy if you have made an iTunes or iCloud backup before. But it’s more common that you don’t have a backup available when you need to perform iPhone photo recovery. In such a case, you will need a third-party iOS data recovery tool to help.

Method 1. Recover Permanently Deleted Photos from iPhone with iPhone Recovery Software

Without a proper recovery plan, there is the potential of permanently losing your data. If you cannot afford to permanently lose your important files, it’s better to download a reliable iOS data recovery tool on the computer in case of data loss.

EaseUS MobiSaver, a safe and iPhone data recoveryВ tool, is exactly what you need. As a professional data recovery tool, it has the ability to recover photos, contacts, videos, movies, messages, etc from iPhone/iPad with or without backup. In contrast to traditional recovery methods (iTunes and iCloud) that perform a full restore to iPhone, this powerful tool lets you restore only wanted pictures to the device. More importantly, it can restore lost data without backup.

Step 1.В Launch EaseUS MobiSaver. Among the three recovery options, choose «Recover from iCloud» > Enter your Apple ID and password.

Step 2. Then, it will start to scan your device. After that, all the files that were found will be displayed on the left side. You can find the iCloud photos quickly by choosing the «Photos/Videos» category > Preview the recoverable pictures one by one > Click «Recover» and specify a location to save them on your computer.

If you have made a backup, be it an iTunes backup or iCloud backup, you can follow either of the methods below to retrieve your deleted photos.

Method 2. Retrieve Deleted Photos on iPhone Using iTunes

If you have an iTunes backup, there are two ways for you to get back deleted photos on your iPhone. One is to restore iPhone via iTunes, the other is to selectively restore photos from the backup using a tool like EaseUS MobiSaver.

The difference is: If you perform an iPhone restore, all data and settings on your iOS device will be replaced by the content from the backup, which means data loss may occur. While if you use an iPhone recovery tool, you can choose to restore photos only.

To restore all iPhone data from an iTunes backup:

Step 1. Connect your iPhone to your computer with a USB cable and trust the computer.

Step 2. In iTunes, click the «Device» icon and make sure you choose «Summary».

Step 3. Click «Restore Backup» and select a backup.

Step 4. Choose «Restore» to start recovering photos and other types of content to your iPhone.

If your iPhone is not recognized by iTunes, you will need to fix it first.

To recover deleted photos on iPhone from an iTunes backup (no data loss):

Step 1. First, download EaseUS MobiSaver (for iOS device) > Connect your iPhone/iPad to your computer > Start EaseUS MobiSaver > Select the «Recover from iTunes» > click the «Scan» button.

Step 2. MobiSaver will automatically scan your backup file to find the lost data. All the files that have been found by MobiSaver will be displayed on the left side in well-organized categories.

Step 3. You can preview the detailed contents of your lost contacts and then choose the pictures you want to recover and click the «Recover» button to save them on your computer.

Method 3. Get Permanently Deleted Photos Back on iPhone via iCloud

An iCloud backup (you made with iCloud Photos off) also helps you to recover permanently deleted photos from iPhone. Similar to using iTunes backup, you can also choose to restore everything from the iCloud backup via iPhone settings or selectively retrieve photos with iPhone recovery software like EaseUS MobiSaver.

Since the way to use the iPhone photo recovery tool has been detailed above, here I will show you how to recover all iPhone data from an iCloud backup only.

Before you start, you should know that, to restore deleted photos on iPhone from an iCloud backup, you need to erase all content and settings on your iOS device first, then you can choose to restore the device from the backup. Otherwise, you can only use a third-party tool to access and recover data from the backup.

To recover permanently deleted photos from iPhone using an iCloud backup:

Step 1. Go to «Settings» > «General» > «Reset».

Step 2. Tap «Erase All Content and Settings» to reset your iPhone.

Step 3. Set up your iPhone and choose «Restore from iCloud Backup» on the Apps & Data screen.

Step 4. Sign in with your Apple ID and tap «Choose backup».

Step 5. Select the most recent iCloud backup to restore your iPhone from.

Method 4. Recover Permanently Deleted Photos on iPhone from Third-Party Services

If you have backed up your iPhone photos with third-party services like OneDrive, Google Photos, or Dropbox, you can also easily recover deleted photos from your iPhone.В

Let me take Google Photos as an example. If you have turned on Back up and Sync on your iPhone, the photos and videos you deleted from your iPhone will stay in the trash in Google Photos for 60 days before they are permanently deleted. That, luckily, gives you a chance to recover deleted photos on your iPhone.

To recover permanently deleted photos from iPhone via Google Photos:

Step 1. On your iPhone, open Google Photos.

Step 2. Tap «Library» and click «Trash».

Step 3. Select the photos you want to recover and tap «Restore».В

Afterward, you will see these items again in your Photos app and Google Photos.

Part 3. Back Up Photos on iPhone

There are also situations in which you can’t get back your deleted photos. For example, your iPhone suffered physical damage and there is no backup available. That should remind you of the importance of data backup.

To minimize the chance of data loss, it’s really necessary for you to back up your precious files on your devices, especially photos.В

To back up your iPhone photos, the easiest way is to transfer iPhone photos to computer:

Step 1. Connect your iPhone to the computer with a USB cable.

Step 2. Unlock the device and click «Trust» to trust the computer.

Step 3. Go to «This PC» and click [your iPhone name] > «Internal Storage» > «DCIM» > «100APPLE».

Step 4. Now you could see all photos and videos from the iPhone. Select and copy the items you want to transfer to a folder on the computer.

For more proven ways to back up photos on iPhone, you can refer to the guide on how to transfer photos from iPhone to PC.

The Bottom Line

iPhone photo recovery could be easy if you apply the proper method. As you may know now, it’s really important to make a backup of your precious data to avoid complete data loss. Thus, don’t hesitate to grow a good habit of backing up your device regularly.

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