How to Recover Deleted Photos from iPhone

A lot of people like using iPhone because of taking HD pixels photos at any time any where conveniently. But some accident cases would happen: Maybe accidentally deleted photos, or restore iPhone to factory settings, or other incorrect operations, your pictures are gone. Is there any way to recover photos from iPhone?

This guide applies to all iPhone devices: iPhone 7, iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus, iPhone 6, iPhone 6S Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 5S, iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS. Moreover, if you have already backup iPhone files to iTunes, but now you don’t know which deleted files are your needed; or you just want to recover some deleted photos or videos, not all files. Here are 2 methods for you to retrieve deleted photos from your iPhone device, you can choose one of these methods depending on your situation.

Method 1: How to Undelete Pictures on iPhone

There is a new photo system in iOS 8 that stores the deleted pictures in Photos app directly to an album titled Recently Deleted. If your iPhone or iPad is running iOS 8 or the latest iOS 9/10, and it’s been under 30 days since you deleted the images, you can easily get them back.

Step 1: Navigate to the Photos app and open the album titled Recently Deleted.
Step 2: Tap Select in the upper right and choose the photos you’d like to recover.
Step 3: Tap Recover in the bottom right to finish recovery to recover iPhone photos.

This method is good and direct but there are restrictions. You can skip to the second method if there is no image you need in the Recently Deleted album or your version is below to iOS 8.

Method 2: How to Retrieve Deleted Photos from iPhone Directly

iPhone Data Recovery is a professional photo recovery software that help iPhone users to retrieve deleted or lost photos from iPhone, iTunes or iCloud backup. It can also recover deleted or lost, videos, text messages, contacts, notes, call history, WhatsApp and other data due to various reasons like accidental deletion, jailbreak, iOS update failure, factory settings restore or iDevice is broken/lost/stolen. And this program works perfectly for all iPhone 7/SE/6S Plus/6S/6/6 Plus/5S/5/4S/4/3GS, iPad and iPod Touch.



Step 1. Run the Program and Connect Your iPhone

Run the program on your computer and connect your iPhone to the pc. You'll see the main window as follow:



Step 2. Select Data to Scan on iPhone Device

The program will automatically scan your iPhone for data on it as follows if you tick "Gallary" and click "Start Scan" button.



Step 3. Preview and Recover Deleted iPhone Photos

When the scan is finished, you can preview all found data in categories. To preview your photos, you can choose "Photo Stream" or "Camera Roll". Not only those deleted, but also includes those Photo Stream still on your iPhone. If you only want to get deleted photos back, you can refine the result by sliding the button in the red area on the interface below, to only display deleted items. Then mark those photos you want and click "Recover" to save them on your computer.





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