How can I recover my photos and videos without having the iPhone or registered phone number?

Do not have the phone or the number attached to log in



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Original Title: Recover personal photos and vid

iPhone 14 Plus, iOS 18

Posted on Sep 14, 2025 9:52 AM

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Posted on Sep 14, 2025 9:59 AM

If you "do not have the phone", you cannot recover any data – including photos – from it.


Your only hope of recovering the photos would be if you had already copied them elsewhere, e.g., by

  • Synchronizing them to iCloud, using iCloud Photos
  • Making iCloud backups that included photos, if you weren't using iCloud Photos
  • Manually importing the photos to a computer


Then you might be able to recover them from that place. But without physical possession of the phone, you won't be recovering them from the phone itself.

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Sep 14, 2025 9:59 AM in response to Gloworldream

If you "do not have the phone", you cannot recover any data – including photos – from it.


Your only hope of recovering the photos would be if you had already copied them elsewhere, e.g., by

  • Synchronizing them to iCloud, using iCloud Photos
  • Making iCloud backups that included photos, if you weren't using iCloud Photos
  • Manually importing the photos to a computer


Then you might be able to recover them from that place. But without physical possession of the phone, you won't be recovering them from the phone itself.

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