I recently sold my MacBook and the person said they would take care of wiping the hard drive and resetting it. A few days later ALL the photos on my iPhone have vanished. Is this related?? And is it possible to recover my lost photos?? Please Help!!!
Your MacBook buyer deleted all your photos from iCloud.
You have 30 days to get them back, here's how: https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud/delete-and-recover-photos-and-videos-mm08b49040b5/icloud
Your MacBook buyer deleted all your photos from iCloud.
You have 30 days to get them back, here's how: https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud/delete-and-recover-photos-and-videos-mm08b49040b5/icloud
Are you certain?? I never had iCloud turned on and then a software update was automatically applied to my phone that turned it on. When I go to iCloud.com there is nothing except the new photos I’ve taken since then. There isn’t even anything in the Recently Deleted folder.
Well, if the buyer deleted the photos and then they disappeared from your iPhone, iCloud must have been turned on, otherwise what was the connection between your old computer and your phone?
It's worth checking the iCloud just in case it actually was on.
Honestly, I don’t believe there ever was one. I have an iPhone 12 and never once hooked it up to my MacBook. Not physically at least. I also have an iPad Pro that shared the Photo Stream between it and my old iPhone XR but it doesn’t share that connection with my current phone. I’m a little curious as to why the photos on my phone have vanished but all the photos on my iPad are still there.
Your iPhone doesn't have to be hooked up to your computer to share photos.
These days, the primary way to share across devices is using iCloud, which syncs photos to all your devices over wifi (or other wireless connection). It sounds like you had that turned on in your MacBook and didn't realize it and that's how they got on your iPad.
Assuming this theory is correct, you can turn on iCloud on your iPhone and the photos will download, and from then on will sync photos between devices.
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