Hey everyone,
This is a weird one, to me at least... I was updating to iOS 8.1, however for the first time in my life, my 5S decided to go into the recovery mode instead. The Connect to iTunes image really freaked me out. I did try several tips to bring it back to life without restoring it, however nothing helped and I ended up clicking restore and therefore everything was deleted. To be clear, I have the basic 5GB iCloud Storage, so I backup everything BUT my photos. These I backup manually into iPhoto every once in a while, which this time, unfortunately, happened to be March :/ So I configured the iPhone, chose the iCloud restore option and let it do its thing over night. However I woke and all the photos are somehow (magically) reappearing. Photos backup is still OFF in the iCloud Settings, but as of now I almost have all my photos up to date. How is this possible? I have iCloud Photo Library (Beta) OFF, My Photo Stream OFF, Upload Burst Photos OFF, iCloud Photo Sharing OFF. How come the photos are still coming back? Did they stay in the phone despite the restore (I highly doubt that)? I know this might be a completely unnecessary question, but I'm really curious.
Thanks
This is a weird one, to me at least... I was updating to iOS 8.1, however for the first time in my life, my 5S decided to go into the recovery mode instead. The Connect to iTunes image really freaked me out. I did try several tips to bring it back to life without restoring it, however nothing helped and I ended up clicking restore and therefore everything was deleted. To be clear, I have the basic 5GB iCloud Storage, so I backup everything BUT my photos. These I backup manually into iPhoto every once in a while, which this time, unfortunately, happened to be March :/ So I configured the iPhone, chose the iCloud restore option and let it do its thing over night. However I woke and all the photos are somehow (magically) reappearing. Photos backup is still OFF in the iCloud Settings, but as of now I almost have all my photos up to date. How is this possible? I have iCloud Photo Library (Beta) OFF, My Photo Stream OFF, Upload Burst Photos OFF, iCloud Photo Sharing OFF. How come the photos are still coming back? Did they stay in the phone despite the restore (I highly doubt that)? I know this might be a completely unnecessary question, but I'm really curious.
Thanks
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