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marield26 Author

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Can I recover permanently deleted photos?

Recently I realized that all my photos were deleted from all of my devices (phone, iPad, and MacBook) and when I checked my deleted folder on each device nothing was in any of the album. A months prior to realizing this, I had deleted all the photos from my iPad and since all of my devices were linked, I think that might have caused the photos to get deleted from each device. I did not know this would happen and never checked until it was too late. I fear that I have waited too long and I won't be able to get my photos back, but I just wanted to see if anyone had any ideas. I have already tried to restore the photos from my iPad using the iCloud backup, but there was only one backup from a couple days ago, thus no pictures. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to get my picture back, thanks!

iPad Air 2, iPadOS 13

Posted on Jun 30, 2020 7:25 PM

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Michael Black

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Posted on Jun 30, 2020 7:28 PM

If it was more than 30 days ago, yes, they are gone for good. iCloud photo is a sync service to sync photos across all your devices. So a change made on any one device is reflected in icloud and across all devices linked to the same icloud account.

While photos are kept in the recently deleted album for 30 days, after 30 days they are purged for good.

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