I forgot my password and had to have us cellular restore my phone which basically erased everything and I lost YEARS of important and sentimental photos. I apparently did not have icloud photos on, is there any way to recover them?
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Original Title: recovering lost data
iPhone 13 Pro, iOS 18
“… I lost YEARS of important and sentimental photos …”
But not important enough in all those years to ever think about backing them up?
Seriously ?
iCloud Automatic Backups are “on” by default.
See:
Restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch from a backup - Apple Support
iCloud Photos - also “on” by default - automatically maintains a duplicate of all of your photos on iCloud.
Apple actually makes it pretty difficult to NOT have a backup. After all, iPhones are lost, damaged, stolen, and replaced every day.
Yes i know, i’ve had them on previously. I have no clue what happened. I’ve manually backed up my phone before but i can’t even access previous backups. I’ve had i cloud photos for years as i’ve accessed them through icloud before but now every single one is gone.
Def sounds like you’re in a bind.
I suspect US Cellular might have made some mis-steps wrt your Apple Account during their “device recovery” but that’s pure conjecture w/o any solid basis.
If you’re logged-in to your original Apple Account and nothing’s there …
… and you have no “manual” backups retained on a computer …
… It might seem that you’re indeed out of options.
Recovering lost photos after iPhone restore without iCloud backup
