“Help! I pulled my iPhone out of my pocket after work yesterday, and found the latest photos of my projects disappearing! Any help?”
Similar to the situation above, sometime you may lose or accidentally delete some photos. To deal with this problem, the first thing you should do is to check the ‘Recently Deleted’ folder in your iDevice album, which will hold your deleted photos for 30 days. If you can’t find your deleted photos in this folder, this article will show you other useful ways to retrieve deleted photos from iPhone/iPad.
Part 1: Recover deleted Photos from iPhone/iPad directly
Restoring your iPhone with iTunes/iCloud backup is a common choice for iOS users, but not the best, for the restoration will bring your phone back to the version of the backup. Besides restoring with backup, it is a good choice for you to recover deleted photos from iPhone/iPad directly.In order to get deleted photos back from iPhone/iPad, you will need an expert tool like Gihosoft iPhone Recovery software. It supports all types of iPhone & iPad, and it is a good helper for you to recover Photos, Text Messages, Call History, etc. Let's learn the following steps to retrieve deleted photos from iPhone/iPad.
- Step 1: Install and run Gihosoft iPhone Photo recovery tool, and click on Next.
- Step 2: Connect your device to computer and start scanning it.
- Step 3: Preview scanning result and recover deleted photos onto computer.
Part 2: Combine iPhone Photo Recovery tool with with iTunes backup.
If you have a backup in iTunes, but hesitate at restoring iPhone with it, you can use iPhone Photo Recovery tool to check if the backup contains your deleted photos. Gihosoft iPhone Photo Recovery software supports extracting deleted photos from iTunes backup. You can follow these steps to retrieve deleted photos from iTunes backup.
- Step 1: Run the iPhone Photo Recovery and tick “Photos & Videos”.
- Step 2: Click on “View iTunes Backup” and start scanning.
- Step 3: Preview scanning result and retrieve deleted photos from backup.
Part 3: Retrieve deleted Photos from iCloud Photo Stream.
If you’ve enabled Photo Stream in iCloud, then your deleted Photos probably have been synced to iCloud. You can go to your iPhone/iPad Albums for ‘My Photo Stream’ folder and check if the deleted photos are in this album; if they are, you can easily retrieve deleted photos. Note that ‘My Photo Stream’ only uploads most recent photos and remains them for 30 days.
- Step 1: Click on Albums on your device and check on ‘My Photo Stream’.
- Step 2: See if your deleted Photos are there.
More tips on Restoring Photos from iCloud Photo Stream.
Part 4: Restore deleted Photos from iTunes backup.
If you sync your iPhone with iTunes every once a while, you can recover your deleted photos from iTunes backup. Note that if you restore your iPhone with iTunes backup straightly, then ALL your iPhone settings and data will be reverted to the version of the backup. Therefore check the date of your backup before the restoration.
- Step 1: Connect iPhone to iTunes.
- Step 2: Click on the iPhone icon and choose ‘Restore Backup’.
- Step 3: After restoration, your photos will be back in Photos App.
More details on Restoring Photos from iTunes backup.
