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Permanent delete photo recovery

Delete photo and video recovery

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I'm sorry ananth63, but permanent means forever. A great safety feature on the iPhone is that deleted pictures remain in the "Recently Deleted" view for 30 days before they are removed permanently. This safety feature can be defeated, though, by choosing to prematurely delete pictures from the "Recently Deleted" view.  If you use iCloud Photos, then that "synchronizes" its Photos Library with the phone, so what you see on the phone is what is at iCloud. iCloud Photos doesn't keep pictures in "Recently Deleted" any longer than the phone does. There is no additional safety feature in case we don’t heed the warning for the first safety. Pictures that are deleted from the Recently Deleted view are permanently erased. 


You didn't say if you use iCloud Photos , but if you don't use iCloud Photos, but you have Settings>Apple ID>iCloud Backup turned on, then you may be able to recover data. You should look here:

Restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch from a backup - Apple Support 

“Restore” is what you do when you buy a new phone, so this safety, if you have it set, requires you to erase everything on your phone and replace it with the backup. You would have to get to the backup quickly, usually within a day, before the backup is replaced by a newer one. However, if you did have iCloud Photos enabled, then the iCloud Backup wouldn't make an extra copy.


Perhaps you have shared your pictures with friends-- then you could get them to send copies back to you.


Unfortunately, if you don't keep your own backups to an external drive, then there really isn't any place else to look. To back up your pictures you can just plug in an external drive, select the pictures, and use Share>Save to Files. Alternatively, you can backup to a computer:

Transfer photos and videos from your iPhone or iPad to your Mac or PC

If you haven't done one of those backups, then your remaining pictures continue to be in peril. 

ananth63 wrote:
My photo and video delete in permently.how to recover the photos and videos


If you permanently deleted your photos and videos – and you don't have copies "outside the system", you don't recover the photos and videos. That's what permanent deletion means.

Do you want to delete photos or recover photos? Exactly what do you want to do? Writing in complete sentences really helps.

ananth63 wrote:
My photo and video delete in permently.how to recover the photos and videos

You can't. They are gone for good.


My photo and video delete in permently.how to recover the photos and videos