How to Recover Deleted Photos from iPhone (Without Using PC)

Have you accidentally lost or deleted photos on your iPhone? Don't panic: there are solutions. In this post we are going to see what can be done to recover deleted iPhone photos without PC. That is, in a simple and direct way from the same device.

All iPhone users use their phone's camera on a daily basis to capture and save all kinds of images. As a result, they end up saving on your device a treasure trove of photos and memorabilia. Losing them can be a real chore. And sometimes even a tragedy.

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As you probably already know, Apple devices can sync their data in different ways. This, in the case at hand, is a great advantage, since it offers us various methods for recover lost photos and videos. We review them below:

5 Methods to Recover Deleted iPhone Photos

There are at least seven ways to save yourself from this awkward situation and recover deleted photos from your iPhone. Depending on your specific case, you can try one or another method until you find the solution:

Check Recently Deleted Folder on iPhone

If the photos have been deleted recently, this is the first method you should try. It happens quite often that while managing the files on our phone, we mistakenly delete a photo. These images will automatically end up in the folder “Recently Deleted” (in Spanish, "recently deleted"). They will remain there, ready to be rescued, for 30 days after their deletion.

These are the steps we must follow to recover them:

1. First, we open the photo app from our device.
2. Then we scroll down until we find the folder "Other Albums". Within it, we select the folder we referred to before: "Recently Deleted". If these 30 days of grace have not been exceeded, the file that we want to recover will be found in that folder.
3. To recover it, simply click on the file and click on the option "Recover", located at the bottom right of the iPhone screen.

If the photo or photos that we want to recover are no longer in this folder because the 30-day period has already passed, try one of the following methods:

Find unsynchronized deletions on other devices

This can be a very practical alternative in the event that, in addition to the iPhone, we also have other devices linked to our account. iCloud. We are referring to iPads, iPod Touch devices, MacBooks, Windows computers with iTunes, etc.

In addition, we will need to have the app installed iCloud Photo Library, that already comes by default in the latest versions of iPhone.

Note that this method will work only if we have deleted the photos while our iPhone had no data connection, or was in airplane mode. That's the key: the photos have been deleted, but the other linked devices do not know it yet. What you need to do then is to keep the iPhone offline and use another linked device to recover the lost content.

Go back to iTunes backup

If the previous two methods have not worked, this is the next one that we should try. If we use the software Apple iTunes, a backup of our device is created there every time a synchronization occurs.

The method works, although you have to take into account that, among other things, you can't see the details in the backup, or recover photos separately. These are the steps to follow:

1. First you have to connect our iPhone with the computer using a USB cable.
2. then we open iTunes and click on the device button, in the upper left corner.
3. Next you have to select "Restore Backup".
4. To finish, we choose the backup where the photos we want to recover are.

Review messages to see attachments

Before continuing with other solutions, try this one: The photos we are looking for and that we could not recover have probably been sent or received through an application, such as iMessage or WhatsApp. If so, they can surely be recovered using the application data.

Use iCloud Backup

This can be a real lifeline for you if the previous methods have failed. Obviously, it is necessary to have a backup iPhone photos to iCloud. If you do, you're in luck, because the recovery process couldn't be easier:

1. In iCloud, we go to «Settings» and select the option “General".
2. Then we choose the “Reset” option and press “Clear content and settings».
3. When the process is complete, we turn on our iPhone.
4. Next, we follow the configuration steps.
5. As a last step you just have to select the option «Restore with iCloud Backup».

So far the list of solutions, which will work in most cases. If not, don't despair, as there are still ways to recover lost photos and iPhone. Some of them involve using certain paid apps. We will talk about them in another post.