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beerseagulls

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I was clearing out my photos... deleted a ton of photos to save space.

I then went into the "Recently Deleted" folder to remove them... (yes, I know, I know)

For some reason, I hit "Delete All"... and, well... they all got deleted.

When I went back to look at the remaining photos, I realized that I must have deleted some photos by mistake.

Is it too late now? :(
 
Unfortunately, it's probably too late. Sorry that happened to you. Post #4 may be correct, check that out.
 
Check when was the last time your backup data was processed via iCloud. You may be able to retrieve the photos back by going back to the latest backup data. Depending on when it was last synched.

holy cow! I didn't even think of that... sure enough... I took out my back-up phone, the original iPhone SE, and most of the accidentally deleted photos were still on it! I keep this phone in the car's glove box permanently as a, well, back-up phone. I only turn it on sometimes because the prepaid SIM that I put in it required the phone to be used at least once every 60 days.

I turned it on and it was still in airplane mode, which meant that nothing was synched. I copied most of the photos to another folder then copied them to my PC...

THANKS!
 
holy cow! I didn't even think of that... sure enough... I took out my back-up phone, the original iPhone SE, and most of the accidentally deleted photos were still on it! I keep this phone in the car's glove box permanently as a, well, back-up phone. I only turn it on sometimes because the prepaid SIM that I put in it required the phone to be used at least once every 60 days.

I turned it on and it was still in airplane mode, which meant that nothing was synched. I copied most of the photos to another folder then copied them to my PC...

THANKS!
Whew! Glad it worked out!
 
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holy cow! I didn't even think of that... sure enough... I took out my back-up phone, the original iPhone SE, and most of the accidentally deleted photos were still on it! I keep this phone in the car's glove box permanently as a, well, back-up phone. I only turn it on sometimes because the prepaid SIM that I put in it required the phone to be used at least once every 60 days.

I turned it on and it was still in airplane mode, which meant that nothing was synched. I copied most of the photos to another folder then copied them to my PC...

THANKS!
LOL Airplane Mode saves the day.
 
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