How can I restore documents on my iPhone?

hi everyone . I accidentally erased my iPhone from find my location. Now all my photos, sms, contacts are lost on my phone. They are very important to me. Can you help me get them back? please. They are very important to me.

iPhone 16, iOS 18

Posted on Aug 9, 2025 05:04 AM

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Aug 9, 2025 11:23 AM in response to sifat6

sifat6 wrote:

I understand what you're saying, brother. Isn't there any way I can at least get the pictures back?


No. If your pictures were stored only on your phone, and you then wiped your phone, there is no way for you to get your pictures back. They are gone.


Using iCloud Photos could have saved your photos. If you did not want to use iCloud Photos for some reason – but you were making automatic iCloud backups that included photos (an alternative), that could have saved the photos, too. If you were dong neither of those things, and also were not backing up your photos manually, they are gone.

Aug 9, 2025 01:09 PM in response to sifat6

I would suggest, going forward, that you

  • Turn on automatic iCloud backups
  • Turn on iCloud Photos
  • Make sure that you have enough iCloud space (subscribe to an iCloud+ plan if necessary)


If you have a Mac, I would also suggest

  • Turning on iCloud Photos there, with the system set to store full-size local copies of all photos and videos
  • Making local backups of the Mac on external hard drives or external SSDs


This won't get back the pictures that you lost by wiping your non-backed-up phone, but it might save you from a repeat of this, or a similar, disaster in the future.

How can I restore documents on my iPhone?

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