User level: Level 1 (4 points)I am looking for a photo book I created in an old Apple account. How would I go about searching for that? I have the user ID and password for the old Apple account, but I don't know where to look for the photo book I created.
Posted on Nov 3, 2026 2:02 PM
User level: Level 10 (205,585 points)Nov 4, 2026 2:11 AM in response to Mom2KidsDog
Even if you are using iCloud Photos you cannot recover photo books from iCloud. The photo book projects are not synced with iCloud Photos, only stored locally. This applies to all projects, also calendars, cards, slideshows etc.
If you created the book on a Mac and saved your old Time Machine backups, you might be able to find your PDF preview of your book in the Time Machine backup. Did you keep the old drives?
I am saving the PDFs of my photo books in the Books.app, then I can browse them on my iPad.
User level: Level 10 (166,900 points)Nov 4, 2026 2:06 AM in response to Mom2KidsDog
IN addition to what Keith said, when you ordered a book from Apple they kept the original for a couple of months in case you re-ordered a copy. But after that there were deleted. So unless you have a local copy of that book in pdf form, you're out of luck I'm afraid.
User level: Level 7 (21,929 points)Nov 3, 2026 6:06 PM in response to Mom2KidsDog
Sorry, I don't think you can. Photobooks were stored in the Photos/iPhoto library. Not only that but Apple shut down the service years ago. If you saved a pdf you could take it to a service and print it.
User level: Level 1 (14 points)Nov 4, 2026 2:32 AM in response to Mom2KidsDog
You want to find the photo book or just photos in that photo book, maybe you can find photos using iCloud.
Originally posted at discussions.apple.com/thread/256388369