Hundreds of my photos have disappeared

I just noticed the same thing. I’m missing pictures from before 2013. I have no idea when they disappeared and nothing is in the recently deleted or hidden section. All my kids pictures and memories lost!! I know I didn’t DELETE them, I’m not STUPID!! Any help would be appreciated.

My phone needed to be replaced with AppleCare too I bought the extra cloud space and backed up all my data at least I thought. Then they replaced my phone. I just realized ten days later that more that 3/4 of my photos are gone. They never got backed up. I called apple support and they are no help the dude was even rude on the phone. I lost the all the pictures from the first year of my daughters life. I am so sad. Anyone able to fix this issue or am I just out of luck?

If it is beyond 30 days there is nothing Apple can do. This is why people have to have solid backups (again, iCloud is not a backup; it is a transfer function). You have to backup on hard drives. If you use Time Machine, you can get your photos back.

yes I did all that. They weren’t on my iCloud backup either. Nor my recently deleted or hidden folders. I checked everywhere for them and couldn’t find them.

I have the same problem (thousands of missing photos) this has happened in the last few days.

Unfortunately we have found no solution to recover them.

Phone apple support they can recover the photos if less than 30 days since they went missing.

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If this is truly the "last few days" have you tried the undelete option? This is only OK within 30 days of the deletion, not of course from the point at which you spotted it!

Clearing file space will not recover deleted files!

Hear, hear!!!

I just noticed the same happened to me, photos I saved that my family and friends sent me are missing, but I got lucky coz I back up with Google. So I have my missing photos saved on Google.

ALL of my photos from 2021 have disappeared.

i have all photos from 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 & 2024 but 2021 have disappeared 😩

Same here . I noticed yesterday all my 2015 2016 2017 2017 family pictures have disappeared . I called and chat and they told me they cannot do anything else . I’m very clear that I have not deleted.

My iphone XS just experienced this same problem: i had 30,000 photos and suddenly 20,000 gone in thin air. Why?