How can I recover lost documents from iCloud drive?

Yesterday I lost a number of roof documents from my iCloud Drive. How can I get them back?

At the same time I also lost documents from one drive (Microsoft) and many other documents were scrambled to different places.


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Posted on May 28, 2025 5:37 AM

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May 30, 2025 12:36 AM in response to Izzy321Thom

first, you need to check the Recently Deleted folder in iCloud Drive, if the file is there, click Recover.


also there is a data recovery tool in iCloud Drive, it will list the recoverable files for you to restore.

And according to iCloud users, files that are permanently deleted from iCloud in the past 30 days, can be retrieved with the assistance from Apple Support, find the numbers for your location and call an advisor for help: Contact - Official Apple Support


In addition, if the iCloud Drive files are uploaded from your Mac, even though you trashed the copies, it is possible to recover the copies on your local disk, via dmde or cisdem.

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May 28, 2025 7:19 AM in response to Izzy321Thom

Izzy321Thom wrote:

Yesterday I lost a number of roof documents from my iCloud Drive. How can I get them back?
At the same time I also lost documents from one drive (Microsoft) and many other documents were scrambled to different places.

IF you lost documents on both icloud and one drive what did you do? Documents don't delete by themselves.

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How can I recover lost documents from iCloud drive?

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