How to Recover Deleted Photos from iPhone

By Data RecoveryUpdated on January 21, 2026

Losing photos and videos that preserve wonderful moments is a distressing and common issue for many iPhone users. Whether it’s an accidental tap to delete, a failed iOS update, careless removal while freeing up storage space, or even a sudden device glitch, the anxiety of potentially losing those precious memories forever can be overwhelming. If you’re stuck in this predicament and wondering how to recover deleted photos from your iPhone quickly, you’ve landed on the right page. In this guide, we’ll share 3 simple yet practical recovery methods that allow you to effortlessly retrieve those accidentally lost precious images in just a few steps.

iPhone Data Recovery Overview

DatasRecovery offer the best iPhone Data Recovery tools to help you recover lost or deleted iPhone data without a backup. What’s more, it also can restore lost iPhone data from iTunes backups or iCloud backups. It recovers up to 12 kinds of lost data, no matter how that data was lost or deleted: Photos, Contacts, Text Messages, iMessages, Call history, Calendar, Notes, Reminder, Safari bookmark, Safari history, WhatsApp and attachments, Camera Roll, Photo Library, Voice memos, Voicemail, Photo Stream, App videos & audios, Documents.

More Features:

• Recover lost and deleted files from iPhone & iPad.
• Backup and restore iPhone data.
• Fix iOS system to normal status.
• Transfer WhatsApp messages between iOS devices.

Recover iPhone Data in Three Recovery Modes:

Recover Data from iPhone Device – Connecting the iPhone device to your computer via USB cable, the software can deep scan of your device internal storage, then you can recover lost iPhone data.

Recover Data from iTunes/Finder Backups – If you’ve synced your iPhone with iTunes before, you can extract iPhone data from iTunes backup and save data onto your local computer. For iTunes Data Recovery mode, you don’t have the device in hand, so you still can restore lost data if your iPhone was broken or lost.

Recover Data from iCloud Backups – If you have synced your iPhone with iCloud account, it can retrieve backups from iCloud. One great thing about this method is that it will not overwrite existing files on your device.

DatasRecovery iPhone Data Recovery tool can deeply scan the device’s storage space and help you recover lost and deleted data from your iPhone 11/12/13/14/15/16/17, without needing a backup. Let’s teach you how to recover deleted data from iPhone, iTunes or iCloud.

3 Ways to Recover iPhone Deleted Data

Let’s teach you how to use DatasRecovery iPhone Data Recovery to recover lost/deleted data from iPhone, iTunes or iCloud.

Method 1. How to Recover Data from iPhone without Backup

Here’s how to scan and recover deleted files from iPhone without a backup:

Step 1: Launch iPhone Data Recovery on Computer
Launch the iPhone data recovery on your computer, then select “iPhone Data Recovery” feature.

Step 2: Connect iPhone to Computer
To scan and recover data from iPhone devices directly, then select “Recover from iOS Device” and connect your iPhone to the computer via a USB cable.

Step 3: Select Type of Data and Scan the iPhone
Then, please select type of data you need to recover, click “Start Scan” to scan your iPhone’s memory, the software start to find the deleted data from your iPhone device directly.

Step 4: Choose Deleted Data to Scan
After the software has fully scanned your iPhone’s internal storage, it will classify your files and data into the three categories: Message & Contacts, Media, Memos & Others. You can click on the specific subdirectories to view the recoverable files. Now, navigate to the list of items you want and select the data to recover.

Step 5: Recover iPhone Data
When you are done selecting, click the “Recover” button and customize the location where you want to store the recovered iPhone files in the pop-up dialog box, then hit “Recover” to start the recovery process.

Click the “Recover” button, then choose a location on the hard drive, and hit the “Recover” button again to save the lost/deleted data onto your computer. To recover contacts from iPhone, the contacts will then be saved as HTML or CSV file to your chosen path.

Method 2: Recover iPhone Lost Data from iTunes Backup

Here’s how to recover data from wiped iPhone by extracting from iTunes backup selectively.

Step 1: Select Recover from iTunes Backup
Run the program, and select “Recover from iTunes Backup” mode.

Step 2: Scan Data from iTunes Backup File
Then, choose an iTunes backup and click “Scan” button, the tool will automatically scan the iTunes backup made from the computer.

Step 3: Preview and Recover Data
After scanning completed, all the lost and deleted data included in the backup. You can preview them in detail, then click the “Recover” button start to recover and save data you want to computer.

Method 3: Recover iPhone Lost Data from iCloud Backup

The mentioned this iPhone data recovery software supports all iOS versions and models, it can free to scan your iPhone devices and iTunes, then shows the preview of the deleted and existing data before you recover them. To avoid duplicate data from your iPhone or iPad, let’s teach you how to restore data from iCloud backup using iPhone Data Recovery.

Step 1: Choose Recover from iCloud Backup File
Click “Recover from iCloud Backup File” in homepage and then log into your iCloud account (The same one as the former).

Step 2: Select iCloud Backup History to Scan
Choose the iCloud Backup button at the bottom left and choose the backups you want to recover. Follow the on-screen instructions afterward to complete the procedure.

Step 3: Scan and Recover iCloud Data
After scanning completed, then you can preview your backups in iCloud backup. Next you can choose data that you want to recover and make it in the list. Confirm data that you want to recover and next you can click “Recover” to finish.

Recover iPhone Lost/Deleted Photos from iCloud Backups

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Summary

Whether you’re recovering deleted or lost data from your iPhone, restoring files without a backup, or retrieving data to a lost, damaged, or reset iPhone, the iPhone data recovery tool provided in this article can help you get your lost and deleted data back. With this iPhone data recovery, you can deleted data from iPhone/iPad directly, restore iPhone data from iTunes or iCloud backups, this iPhone Data Recovery will helps you save many of your time in data recovery task.