How do I recover all iCloud photos on my new iPhone?

Hi everyone,

I’m having a really frustrating problem with my iCloud Photos and I’m not sure what to do.

A few months ago, I transferred all my data from my old iPhone to my new iPhone using the same iCloud account. Everything was fine for months, but in July, all my photos from the old iPhone disappeared from my new iPhone.

This includes:

Regular photos

Hidden photos

Recently Deleted photos


I did not delete anything, and I’ve checked iCloud.com and my backups, but the photos are gone. My iCloud storage was full at the time, and my phone went through several updates and restarts.

Has anyone experienced this? Is there any way to recover these photos? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!


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Original Title: All My Photos Disappeared – Need Help

Posted on Aug 15, 2025 9:36 AM

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Aug 15, 2025 9:48 AM in response to Yarita6

When you had the opportunity, you should have either bought more iCloud Storage or saved the photos somewhere, like to your computers hard drive or another backup service. While we can't know exactly what happened, but running out of storage, then multiple restarts and updates, your photos were clearly deleted. If they're not in the recently deleted folder or in a backup from before the photos disappeared, there is just no where to get them back from.

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