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Accidentally deleted a photo? Don't worry—recovering deleted photos on your iPhone is easy when you follow these simple steps.

We’ve all experienced the near-instant regret of accidentally trashing a photo we love. Maybe while deleting a series of bad selfies you got rid of a cherished photo with friends or a screenshot of your favorite dinner recipe. Maybe you deleted all the photos on your iPhone only to realize you should’ve kept the shots from your grandpa’s birthday. Or maybe you were worried that Apple was scanning your photos and sent that adorable pic of your kids in the bath straight to the garbage. Thankfully, learning how to recover deleted photos on an iPhone isn’t difficult.

Just know this: You have to act fast (or at least in a timely manner). To make that easy for you, we’ve listed all the steps you need to take the next time you want to recover deleted photos on an iPhone. You may as well bookmark this page—the iPhone tricks below will come in handy when you need them most. When you’re done, brush up on other time-saving iPhone hacks, like how to hide private photos on your phone.

How to recover deleted photos on iPhone

Let’s start with the simplest method for recovering deleted iPhone photos: Retrieve them from your “Recently Deleted” folder. One big caveat: This is an option only if it’s been no more than 30 days since you deleted the photo. After that, photos are permanently deleted.

Open the Photos app.
Tap the “Albums” icon at the bottom of the screen.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page, then select “Recently Deleted.”
Tap “Select” in the top-right corner of the screen.
Tap each photograph that you want to recover. (To recover every photo you’ve deleted, choose “Recover All” in the lower-right corner of the screen.)
Tap “Recover” in the lower-right corner.

That’s it. The recovered images will once again appear in your album. Now you’re free to edit your iPhone photos like a pro and share them with your friends.

How to retrieve deleted photos through iCloud

Let’s be real: You’re not scanning your “Recently Deleted” folder on a regular basis, so there’s a chance you’ll delete a cherished photo without immediately realizing it. That’s why it’s smart to know how to recover deleted photos on an iPhone that are more than 30 days old.

You might be able to get them back by restoring a recent iCloud backup of your phone. Just know that everything will be restored to how it was at the time of the backup, including your files and any apps that were on your phone.

Protect your current data and photos by backing them all up to iCloud first.
Do a factory reset.
Restore your phone from a backup that’s old enough to contain the photos you want to recover.
Open the Photos app and confirm that the pictures you want to recover are there. If they’re not, simply repeat the process with an older backup until you’ve found the desired photos.

We know what you’re thinking: You want the deleted photos and your most recent iPhone settings. Have your cake and eat it too by uploading the recently restored photos to a storage service in the cloud or emailing them to yourself (make sure to choose the highest-quality version of the photo). Then restore your phone to its most recent settings.

How to retrieve deleted photos through iTunes

Most people use iCloud for no-fuss photo backups. But if you still use iTunes for this, discovering how to recover deleted photos on an iPhone is still pretty simple.

Connect your iPhone to a Mac with macOS Mojave or earlier, or to a PC.
Click on the iPhone icon that appears in the upper-left corner of your computer’s iTunes window.
Select the “Summary” tab on the left-hand side of iTunes.
Choose “Restore Backup” under the Backups section.
Select the backup you want to restore.
Wait for the restore to complete, then look through the photos on your computer to make sure the restored pictures are there.

Once you’ve learned how to recover deleted photos on your iPhone, brush up on other smartphone skills, like deleting your iPhone call history, hiding text messages and running image searches using your iPhone photos.

Sources:

Apple: “Delete and hide photos and videos on iPhone”
Apple: “If you’re missing photos or videos in the Photos app”
Apple: “Restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch in iTunes on PC”

How to retrieve deleted photos

YouTube guide

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

⚡ This method proves helpful in the following situations:

– iPhone can’t restore from a backup because it’s corrupt or incompatible;
– your iPhone is broken or lost;
– you want to recover deleted pictures on your iPhone without overwriting the old ones;
– iPhone photos disappeared;
– you want to transfer photos from an iPhone backup to an Android.

from an iTunes or iCloud backup

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

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

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How to retrieve deleted photos on iPhone

Restore deleted iPhone photos without backup

If your photos were not in the backup, they were maybe synced to iCloud before you deleted them. If so, it is time for desperate measures: CopyTrans Cloudly. The software has a chance to retrieve 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 your 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.
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Run CopyTrans Cloudly. Sign in with your Apple ID. We use an 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!

Recover deleted photos

Summary table

If your photos cannot be found in Recently Deleted, you 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 your photos to iPhone	✓	✘ *you can transfer them to your iPhone later	✘ *you can transfer them to your iPhone later	✓
Extract photos to PC	✘	✓	✓	✘

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How to find 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 the 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.

How to get deleted photos back

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.

However:

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

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

Run iTunes and connect your device to your PC;
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”;

iTunes may ask you to turn off “Find my iPhone”.
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

However:

☹️ 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 your 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.

Conclusion

Now you know how to recover deleted photos from iPhone! You should always start by checking the Recently Deleted album, which is where all deleted photos are kept for 30 days.

If you miss this critical window, your only option is to use specialized software – CopyTrans Backup Extractor. With CopyTrans Backup Extractor you don’t need any special skills or knowledge about computers – everything is very easy and intuitive!