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[New] How to Get Back Pictures You Deleted on iPhone

by Anna Sherry   Updated on 2024-11-25 / Update for  iPhone Recovery

When our iPhone storage is about to reach its limit, deleting pictures from the iPhone becomes our top priority. Those GBs of unimportant pictures are deleted to free up storage. While deleting photos, some iPhone users accidentally delete important ones as well.

If you are also one of the iPhone users who deleted important pictures or want to get back your recently deleted pictures, you are reading the right article. In this guide, we will learn how to get back pictures you deleted on iPhone using four tested methods. But first, let's understand how it is possible to recover deleted pictures on iPhone.

Part 1: Can You Get Pictures Back that You Deleted on iPhone

It's a big YES. You can get back pictures you deleted on your iPhone as if they were not deleted. Basically, the iPhone provides multiple ways to recover deleted pictures.

Whenever you delete a picture, it goes to the "Recently Deleted" folder. In this folder, the picture remains for 30 days until permanently deleted.

If 30 days have passed, you can recover deleted pictures from an iCloud or iTunes backup. If you don't have a backup, you can use reliable iPhone data recovery software to scan the iPhone storage and recover the deleted pictures.

In short, there are endless ways to recover deleted pictures on your iPhone. Read on to learn the four best methods.

Part 2: How Do You Get Deleted Pictures Back on iPhone

You can spend hours trying multiple ways to recover deleted pictures. However, we have saved the hassle by shortlisting the four guaranteed methods. So, follow along to learn how to do you get back deleted pictures on iPhone using best-proven methods:

Method 1: Recover Pictures from Recently Deleted Folder

The first thing you should do is check the Recently Deleted folder and see if you find the deleted pictures there. If 30 days haven't passed since the deletion, the pictures should be present in this folder.

Here's how do you get deleted pictures back on iPhone from the Recently Deleted folder:

  • Launch the Photos app.
  • Scroll down and select "Recently Deleted". Use Face ID to unlock the folder.
  • Click "Select" from the top and select all the pictures you want to recover.
  • Click "3-dots" from the bottom and tap "Recover".
  • recover recently deleted photos

All the selected photos will return to their previous places.

Method 2: Restore Deleted Photos from iCloud Backup

If you don't find the deleted photos in the Recently Deleted folder, the next option is to look for them in iCloud backup. If you remember creating an iCloud backup before photos were deleted, then they must be present in the backup file.

Note:

Restore iCloud backup directly in iPhone, you will have to factory reset iPhone and then recover iCloud backup. This process will restore all the backed-up data, not just photos.

The better alternative is to use Tenorshare UltData to restore iCloud backup. Tenorshare UltData is a powerful iPhone data recovery tool that can smartly extract backed-up data from iCloud and lets you preview and recover selective pictures only. This saves you from resetting your iPhone and restoring the entire backup.

Follow the below steps to learn how can you get back deleted pictures on an iPhone from iCloud backup:

  • Install and launch Tenorshare UltData on your computer (Windows/Mac). Select "Recover Data from iCloud" from the home screen.
  • select recover data from icloud
  • Sign in to your iCloud account using Apple ID.
  • sign-in to icloud
  • Select "Photos" and other data types you want to recover and click "Scan".
  • select data types to scan
  • Once the scan is completed, preview and select the pictures to recover. Click "Recover to PC" to save the pictures to your system, from where you can send them to your iPhone.
  • preview-based recovery

That's how easily you can get deleted pictures back from an iCloud backup.

Method 3: Recover Deleted Pictures Using iTunes Backup

The concept of iTunes backup is similar to iCloud backup. You can create an entire iPhone backup on iTunes and recover it when needed. So, if you have your deleted pictures backed-up in iTunes, you can restore them from it.

Note:

Here again, restoring iTunes backup directly to the iPhone will erase existing data and replace it with backed-up data. So, it is recommended to use Tenorshare UltData, as it allows you to recover only chosen files in the iTunes backup.

Here's how do you get back deleted pictures on your iPhone using iTunes backup:

  • Install and launch Tenorshare UltData on your computer. Tap "Recover Data from iTunes".
  • select recover data from itunes
  • Select the iTunes backup to recover and click "Next".
  • select itunes backup
  • Select "Photos" and other data types to recover and click "Scan".
  • select data types to scan
  • After the tool scans and extracts the data from backup, preview and select the deleted pictures you want to get back. Once done, click "Recover to PC".
  • 
preview-based recovery

In this way, you can quickly get a hand on deleted pictures from your previously made iTunes backup.

Method 4: Get Back Deleted Pictures without Backup

If you don't have a backup to restore, don't worry. You can still recover deleted pictures without backup. That's what Tenorshare UltData offers with its direct iPhone data recovery.

Tenorshare UltData's capabilities go beyond recovering iCloud or iTunes backups. It can intelligently scan your iPhone storage and extract deleted photos and other data types. Afterward, you can preview and recover the ones you need.

The key features of Tenorshare include:

  • Recover deleted data from iPhone without backup or jailbreak.
  • Recover deleted/lost pictures, videos, messages, contacts, documents, and other data types.
  • Recover data lost due to accidental deletion, broken iPhone, iOS upgrade/downgrade, factory reset, etc.
  • Recover deleted pictures from third-party apps like WhatsApp, LINE, Viber, etc.

In short, Tenorshare UltData is the ultimate data recovery tool you need to recover deleted pictures from your iPhone without backup.

Here's how do you get back deleted pictures on your iPhone without backup:

  • Install and launch Tenorshare UltData. From the home screen, select "iPhone/iPad Data Recovery".
  • select iphone/ipad data recovery
  • Link your iPhone to the computer using a USB cable and trust the connection.
  • connect iphone to computer
  • Select "Pictures" and other data types to recover and click "Scan".
  • 
select data types to scan
  • Once the scan completes, preview and pick the pictures and click "Recover to PC".
  • preview-based recovery

That's it! This way, you can use Tenorshare UltData to directly recover deleted pictures from your iPhone without backup.

Closing Words

How to get back pictures you deleted on iPhone is a common query made by iPhone users. However, it is easily resolvable if you use the right technique and tool. From the above discussion, it is evident that Tenorshare UltData shines as a one-stop tool to either recover deleted pictures from iCloud/iTunes backup or directly through iPhone. So, why frustrate more with lost pictures? Install Tenorshare UltData and get back pictures within the next five minutes.