Each day, many photos (several pages),are appearing in recently deleted. They are still in Photos. That's good because I did not delete them. In total, there are 4500 photos in recently deleted. As they progress to automatic deletion, from recently deleted, will they be removed from Photos? Help! The better question might be: Why are they showing up in recently deleted? Thanks, in advance for an explanation.
iPad Pro, iPadOS 18
Well, that's really weird! By "They are still in Photos.," do you mean that these pictures can be seen in the Library view and also in the Recently Deleted view? The same picture can't be in both places, so I wonder if you're seeing duplicates. You might try adding a caption to a picture in Library, and then restoring its doppelgänger and see if it has the caption.
Or am I misunderstanding? Do you mean that the pictures are, at least, not permanently gone from Photos, yet? If you're only seeing one copy of each, then you should select them and recover them before they disappear!
The recover menu is under the More (•••) button at the bottom right. Pictures are permanently removed form Photos and Recently Deleted after they've been there for 30 days. You should see their remaining time under each picture. There is no extra safety.
You may have accidentally selected and deleted them-- it's easy to do with a touch screen. Or, does anyone else have access to your iPad? Do you use iCloud Photos and share the account with anyone else? Do you have a cat?
markwmsn wrote: It almost sounds like somebody (you or somebody acting as you) used a bulk duplicate elimination tool on your library. Is that possible?
That's a good possibility. Or a cat. My cat is the source of many mysterious occurrences…
Do you own another device, where Photos is syncing with iCloud Photos, for example an iPhone?
If you delete photos on a device, hat is syncing with iCloud, the photos will be deleted from all all you iCloud devices and iCloud as well.
It almost sounds like somebody (you or somebody acting as you) used a bulk duplicate elimination tool on your library. Is that possible?
recently deleted photos that still appear in photos
