Photos missing from iCloud after subscription upgrade

About 1 week ago, I upgraded my iCloud subscription from the free version to 200 GB. When I looked at his favourite album in my gallery today, I noticed that there were 11 left out of about 80 pictures. However, i know that I looked at these photos 4-5 days ago. what happened?

Posted on Nov 12, 2025 7:48 AM

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Posted on Nov 12, 2025 7:57 AM

Were these pictures not taken with your iPhone? The one thing I can think of is that pictures transferred by cable from a computer to an iPhone are treated as temporary, and they don't transfer to iCloud--they figure you have those on the computer. Could that be it?


Otherwise, You can see this:

         If you're missing photos or videos in the Photos app - Apple Support

Basically the above says to look in Recently Deleted and in Hidden. Be sure to check your Library thoroughly-- the pictures may not be where you expect, as dates may have changed. You can use the search field with the date or location. And remember, you can sort the Library by date captured or by date added. Also, your Library view now has filters, and you may not have your filter set to "All Items.”


Unfortunately, if you don't keep your own backups to an external drive, then there really isn't any place else to look.


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Nov 12, 2025 7:57 AM in response to hemre

Were these pictures not taken with your iPhone? The one thing I can think of is that pictures transferred by cable from a computer to an iPhone are treated as temporary, and they don't transfer to iCloud--they figure you have those on the computer. Could that be it?


Otherwise, You can see this:

         If you're missing photos or videos in the Photos app - Apple Support

Basically the above says to look in Recently Deleted and in Hidden. Be sure to check your Library thoroughly-- the pictures may not be where you expect, as dates may have changed. You can use the search field with the date or location. And remember, you can sort the Library by date captured or by date added. Also, your Library view now has filters, and you may not have your filter set to "All Items.”


Unfortunately, if you don't keep your own backups to an external drive, then there really isn't any place else to look.


Nov 12, 2025 8:19 AM in response to Richard.Taylor

Hello. I will tell you now more detaily. There were almost no suspicious thing. I only upgraded my icloud storage to 200 gb about a week ago. I had photos that i saved from telegram to my gallery. And I had screenshots in that favorite album. I was clicking and made them as favorite. I remember that I looked those photos around 4-5 days ago for sure. Today, I realized that only 11 favorite photo left. Its impossible that I could delete. I searched everywhere including hidden and recently deleted file too but no, it doesnt show. The only thing that I did is iCloud. I usually use mobile internet, no wifi. Maybe it can connected with that too but i dont know. And maybe i could have software updates that i didnt do. But i dont know if they are linked. And only, but only favorite ones are disappeared, everything else is the same!

Photos missing from iCloud after subscription upgrade

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