My sister has lost upwards of 400 pictures in an accidental deleting spree. She deleted the photos from her iPhone and it chose to delete it from iCloud too, which is not a big deal in itself, but they are not in recently deleted. We have 10 days to figure it out, please help!
IOS – How to recover lost photos from iCloud. They are not in recently deleted
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Prior to a recent change, Apple's solution for this would be to ensure that iPhoto was running and you have configured iCloud to automatically import all photos into your library.
Now that there is no limit to the number of photos, you just need to remain under the current upload limits to avoid having photos that are only on your device and not backed up to Photo Stream:
- 25,000 photos per month
- 10,000 photos per day
- 1,000 photos per hour
Other than temporary pauses, you should be able to store as many photos in the cloud as your have bandwidth and time to upload.
Mac - iPhoto
Windows - Photo Gallery, part of Microsoft Essentials.
Both will offer to import photos from any connected iPhone
BTW, by default an iPhone will not appear as a device on the desktop, only in an app ready to 'talk' to it, iTunes, iPhoto etc.
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Best Answer
Did your sister try logging into iCloud.com to check whether there are some deleted pictures? Use the Apple ID and Passwords to login the website to get it.
If you can't get it from the iCloud.com and the "recently deleted", it's hard to find them back unless you've ever created an iPhone backup. You know the photos that you don't sync to iCloud can be saved to iTunes Backup or iCloud backup. Just restore your device will bring them all back.