Can pictures from a past Apple ID be retrieved

Owned an IPhone before my present IPhone would like to access that account to see if there are photos on the the cloud I do not remember the Apple ID. Is it possible that photos can still be on that cloud.

Posted on Jul 20, 2023 06:03 PM

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Posted on Jul 20, 2023 07:59 PM

You can check. Go to iCloud.com and log in with the old account. Open the online Photos app and see if they are there. If they are, you can select them all and click the download button.


By the way, it was not necessary to create a new account with a new device. It would have been much easier if you had simply used the old account with the new device and then the photos would have automatically appeared on the new device.

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Jul 20, 2023 07:59 PM in response to nickalet

You can check. Go to iCloud.com and log in with the old account. Open the online Photos app and see if they are there. If they are, you can select them all and click the download button.


By the way, it was not necessary to create a new account with a new device. It would have been much easier if you had simply used the old account with the new device and then the photos would have automatically appeared on the new device.

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