Photos permanently deleted from 'Recently Deleted' folder on iPhone with 11 days left

I had about a dozen photos that I didn’t want permanently deleted but I needed them out of my camera roll. They were in my deleted folder yesterday with 11 days left. Today they were gone. What happened.


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Original Title: I had photos in my deleted folder with 11 days left and yesterday my phone permenently deleted them

Posted on Aug 1, 2025 04:44 PM

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Aug 1, 2025 05:10 PM in response to Stetson05

Stetson05 wrote:

I had about a dozen photos that I didn’t want permanently deleted but I needed them out of my camera roll. They were in my deleted folder yesterday with 11 days left. Today they were gone. What happened.

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Original Title: I had photos in my deleted folder with 11 days left and yesterday my phone permenently deleted them



your guess is as good as mine...


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