Recovering unsynced photos from a stolen iPhone 15

my iPhone 15 was stolen and I had around 4000 photos in it but only 1000 was synced in my iCloud. how could I recover other photos



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iPhone 15, iOS 18

Posted on Sep 4, 2025 8:17 AM

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Posted on Sep 4, 2025 9:44 AM

About the only way you'll recover those photos is if the iPhone was connected to Find My and you can see where it is and recover it via the police.


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Sep 4, 2025 8:32 AM in response to dipanshuthakral

dipanshuthakral wrote: …my iPhone 15 was stolen and I had around 4000 photos in it but only 1000 was synced in my iCloud. how could I recover other photos

I'm not sure I understand how you had 1000 pictures on your phone synced to iCloud, but not the rest. iCloud makes the pictures at iCloud.com exactly the same as the ones on the phone.


In any case, If you didn't back up the extra files, then I'm afraid that they are gone with the phone.

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