The Photos app deleting your images feels like a major betrayal. Vacation pics, photos from family gatherings, photos of you with that weird hairstyle — when it’s all suddenly gone, it hurts.
Is it possible to recover deleted photos iPhone removed? Luckily, yes. But it’s much easier to recover them on Mac than on iPhone. The iOS binary file management is less robust and if you can’t find an image in Photos, it’s probably lost.
A Mac, on the contrary, has some solid recovery options built-in. And if you want to be sure you can recover any image, no matter what happens, you can install Disk Drill, an advanced file recovery and backup app on your Mac.
In this guide, we explain how to recover deleted photos from iPhone, how to restore pictures on iPhone with or without iCloud backups, and more.
Recover photos from Recently Deleted album via Photos app
When you want to know how to retrieve deleted photos on iPhone, the first thing to keep in mind is the Photos app has a “Recently Deleted” folder. It saves images for up to 30 days before deleting them forever. You can restore those images, and they will retain their place in your iPhone Photos library as though you never deleted them!
Here’s how to recover deleted photos from iPhone camera roll via the Photos app:
- On your iPhone, open the Photos app
- Scroll down until you see the “Recently Deleted” album (it’s listed under “Other Albums”
- Select “Recently Deleted”
- Select “Select” from the top right of the screen
- Tap on the images you’d like to restore
- Tap “Recover” on the bottom right of the screen
- Select “Recover Photo”
That’s all you have to do! Your image will be restored to your Photos library immediately.
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