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After downloading ios software 18 in my iPhone 13, in “Photos” the “recently deleted” photos file has disappeared. Why is it? Earlier, the “Photos” App was good, easy and user friendly. Now it is very bad indeed in so many ways. Even downloading software 18.1.0 didn’t help !
iPhone 13
Recently Deleted is with Utilities at the bottom of the main window:
The Recently Deleted view only appears when there are recently deleted pictures that can be recovered--pictures that have not been permanently deleted or that have been there for 30 days.
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To be sure the we are talking about the same thing: I go to an album or the library view and I pick a picture:
It opens, and I tap the trashcan:
and I get the warning I showed before:
If I hit Delete Photo, then the picture is removed from my Library and can be seen for 30 Days in the Recently Deleted View. The Recently Deleted View appears at the bottom of the the main window
above the choice to "Customize & Reorder."
In "Customize & Reorder," by the way, I can choose to change the order of the sections or eliminate them from the list.
Here, I've removed Utilities, so that no longer appears below "Media Types," or anywhere in the main window.
So, again, exactly how do you delete a picture from Photos? What would you do differently? Perhaps you could include screenshots so that I can see what's different…
What you have shown in this pic. was there till I downloaded Software 18. Thereafter nothing is there but I can only see “Customise & Reorder” with a list of items which doesn’t have “deleted photos”! If I delete a photo now, it simply disappears for good and there is no way to recover at all. Hence my question.
None of the answers are satisfactory. Wonder why APPLE itself doesn’t want to reply to questions from its customers but instead directs to Community! APPLE should have a department to answer questions. Trust this RICH Corpirate can AFFORD to have a couple of experts to respond to people.
What I showed was from my iPhone running iOS 18; hence my answer.
Exactly how do you delete a picture from Photos? Do you still get the "30 days" warning?
The solution. Click and open the Customize & Reorder button. That opens this page and click to activate Utilities. Go back to the previous page and the missing Deleted Albums reappears.
No warning, nothing at all. All that warning etc were there before downloading Software 18! Now I can see only “customise, reorder”. Just nothing more.
One possibility: If you have iCloud Photos active on this phone AND your iCloud storage is full, then Photos will apparently delete items immediately instead of keeping them in Recently Deleted.
“Recently deleted” photos file is missing.
