Photos disappeared

My iPhone was low on storage and all of my photos disappeared yesterday. Today some of them appeared but not all of them. There were my most important memories and I need a way to recover the lost photos.

iPhone 12, iOS 16

Posted on Jun 28, 2023 2:01 AM

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Jun 28, 2023 2:11 AM in response to jogaile05

Could you give us a bit more background information? Have the missing photos been taken with your iPhone or synced from a computer to the iPhone?


Have you been using iCloud Photos or the Shared iCloud Photos Library? If yes, has there be a problem with your iCloud Storage or only with the local storage on your iPhone?


What have you done, right before the photos vanished?

Which kind of backups are you keeping for your photos?


To get you started, here is some general help with missing photos: If you're missing photos or videos in the Photos app - Apple Support (IN)




Jun 28, 2023 2:37 AM in response to léonie

The missing photos were taken with my iPhone. I didn't do nothing, just my storage was full, my phone showed black screen with a spinning wheel in the middle, and I saw that my photos disappeared. Then the next day, the photos started to appear but not all of them. As of right now, most of the photos are there but not all. The photos weren't synced to iCloud. Sadly, I do not have any backups for my photos.

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