I've lost 100's of my Photos

[ItsTimeForSomeMeTime]

I'm absolutely devastated, as my phone was swiped at the weekend.

It’s not the phone I care about, but it’s the 2 years’ worth of photos that were on it.

Some are on Facebook, but lots aren’t and so they're lost forever; DCs birthdays, non-lockdown night outs, kittens growing up etc etc.

I've reported the incident, but what are the chances of getting my phone/photos back ?

@DrFoxtrot

Did you whatsapp any to people? If you don't delete chats, there'll be some there?

Those are the same ones that are on Facebook.

Its the non-shared photos that actually mean more to me, as they are just mine.

Oh @ItsTimeForSomeMeTime, I’m sorry. A hard lesson to learn re backing up. I pay for more than one service (iCloud and Dropbox) so I know I have it covered.

I'm so sorry 😞

Make sure you turn back up and sync on the new phone

You gals have done me a favour. I had to reinstall my phone a month ago & just assumed I had to kiss most the pics goodbye, pleased to find them on Google, after all.

@lljkk

You gals have done me a favour. I had to reinstall my phone a month ago & just assumed I had to kiss most the pics goodbye, pleased to find them on Google, after all.

im going to look if Google does this for my replacment iPhone.

fingers crossed.

One drive (not sure if available on iPhone) is a good alternative.

It's the Microsoft 365 office package, so excel, word etc and one drive cloud storage.

We pay £8 a month for 4 users and it's 1TB of storage each (or it could be shared , I forget) but with both of us taking photos, videos, for the past 4 years it's no where near full.

You can have it set to only upload the photos when you are on WiFi so it doesn't eat your data.

@Homeofthe

One drive (not sure if available on iPhone) is a good alternative.

It's the Microsoft 365 office package, so excel, word etc and one drive cloud storage.

We pay £8 a month for 4 users and it's 1TB of storage each (or it could be shared , I forget) but with both of us taking photos, videos, for the past 4 years it's no where near full.

You can have it set to only upload the photos when you are on WiFi so it doesn't eat your data.

thanks for the advice

I used to get reminded about my iCloud storage being full, little did I know it was only 79p per month to increase the storage. Awful for you but make sure you back up your next phone to iCloud or to a computer, or google if you go down that route.

@ItsTimeForSomeMeTime

its an iPhone, so i dont think they save automatically to Google do they ?

If you sign in to a new Apple device with your Apple ID your photos should be there

Did you ever plug your phone into your laptop when you had it? Photos sometimes make there way on to the laptop. Did you ever back
up to iTunes?

Oh sorry I didn't see you've already checked iCloud :(

This happened to me. I lost photos of my mum before she died and I was gutted. I hadn’t shared them with anyone.

I’m so sorry.

(I am another who pays about a quid a month for extra storage on iCloud now)

OP, I'm really sorry your photos are gone.

Can I just say to everyone with an Iphone, the free storage limit on icloud a third of the one you get on Google Photos. I have had android phones for seven years and take 1000s of photos. Ive only filled half my storage on Google cloud. And of course, I am also allowed to put a memory card in my phone too, so have another method of storing photos.

This happened to me last year so I know the frustration you are feeling.

When I checked my iCloud I had some photos saved but I'd already printed those out and was supposed to delete them from iCloud to free up storage, but kept putting it off.

I am very old fashioned and every month get photos printed from Snapfish ( 50 free a month). I love photos and my albums are precious. I look on them as my dementia books for when I'm older.

Do you have a BT account op?
Mine get saved into the BT app automatically from my iPhone.

It costs 79p a month to have iCloud back up everything. Worth it.

I'm so sorry you learned the hard way. Happened to me too a couple of years ago.

@ItsTimeForSomeMeTime I also lost baby photos and videos from my iPhone did you back up to a laptop or pc at all? If so
I had done some further research when I lost mine and found a piece of software called Stellar and a geek thread MNer had also recommended Easeus. So after the disappointing Apple "support" call I decided there was nothing more to be lost and I have tried Easeus- it's a free recovery tool which shows if it can restore the videos. I was amazed - it scanned and found all of the baby videos 👶🏻 and photos I had lost. You do have to pay for a full version but you can at least see if any can be recovered from your laptop/pc. Hope this helps!