What should I do if my iPhone data is erased?

Everything on my iPhone was erase apps and pictures




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Posted on Jan 1, 2025 02:11 AM

All my pics and app was erased.. I let someone hold my phone so I think they try to steal it because it says find my iPhone was disabled.. when I got my phone back everything was erased… HOW DO I GET IT BACK PLEASE

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Jan 1, 2025 04:19 AM in response to vetny

vetny wrote:

All my pics and app was erased.. I let someone hold my phone so I think they try to steal it because it says find my iPhone was disabled.. when I got my phone back everything was erased… HOW DO I GET IT BACK PLEASE


You don't get it back, unless you have

  • iCloud backups,
  • Data synchronized to iCloud (e.g, in iCloud Photos), or
  • Data otherwise saved in some place other than the phone itself


Whether you will have those options available will depend on whether you were using them – and on what the person who vandalized your phone did.


If you were, say, using iCloud Photos, and the vandal deleted all of your photos, and followed it up by deleting those photos from the Recently Deleted album, those photos would be permanently deleted. Not just on the phone, but in iCloud, and on all other devices synchronized to it. You wouldn't get those photos back, unless there were already copies outside of the current iCloud Photos system.


If you were using iCloud Photos and the vandal "merely" logged you out of iCloud and then erased your phone, your photos would still be in iCloud and enabling iCloud Photos again would get them back. You could even log into the iCloud Web site (https://www.icloud.com/) from just about any modern Web browser to get to them.

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