How to Recover Photos from iCloud Backup

I deleted some of my photos by accident yesterday. How do I retrieve photos from iCloud to my iPhone? Can anyone give me some suggestions?

In general, you can recover photos from iCloud by visiting iCloud online to export the photos as long as you’ve enabled iCloud Photo Library on iPhone/iPad/iPod touch, or restoring the iCloud backup that contains the photos you need.

But unfortunately, if you deleted the photos from iPhone while iCloud Photo Library was on, they may also be removed from iCloud online because of the auto-sync feature.

At this time, recovering photos from iCloud backup may work, however, all the data on iOS devices will be replaced by the content in the iCloud backup.

In the post, we introduce you to a special tool to recover photos from iCloud backup without restoring and erasing.

With this excellent iCloud backup extractor, you can selectively recover iCloud photos to your computer, or to your iPhone 12/11/XS/XR/X/8/7/6s or iPad/iPod touch.

A Brief Introduction of PhoneRescue for iOS

To help you recover deleted photos from iCloud, PhoneRescue for iOS is strongly recommended, which has been trusted by millions of iOS users for data recovery.

First of all, let’s check out its outstanding features below:

• Recover photos without erasing previous data.
• Preview backup and selectively recover photos you like.
• Photos are retrieved directly to the Photos app or saved to your computer (PC/Mac).
• Download and manage iCloud backup photos locally
• Besides photos, it also supports recovering deleted messages, videos, contacts, notes, calendars, and other files from iCloud backup.

Recover Photos from iCloud Backup Without Restoring

How to Restore Photos from iCloud via Recent Deleted Folder

If you accidentally deleted photos in the last few days, you can find and restore the deleted photos through the Recently Deleted Folder of iCloud. You can follow the steps below to retrieve those pictures.

Step 1. Visit the iCloud website in your computer browser and log in to your iCloud account and password > Select “Photos” in the left control panel of the homepage, and then you can see the recently deleted options.

Step 2. Click this option to view recently deleted images. From the available pictures, you can mark those you need to return and click the “Recover” button.

Restore Photos from iCloud Backup

If you have previously enabled the “iCloud Photo Library” option in “Settings”, you can try this method to restore photos from iCloud Photo Library to iPhone, because iCloud will automatically sync your data to the cloud. However, before you do that, you should learn the disadvantages of this method: First, you cannot selectively restore specific photos. What’s more all data and settings on the iPhone will be overwritten.

1. Open Settings > iCloud > Reset > Tap on Erase all content and settings to reset the iPhone to the new one > After that, turn on the device and follow the instructions until you get to the “Apps and Data” screen.
2. Click Restore from iCloud Backup > Then select a backup based on the backup time and data size. Generally, as long as you have backed up your photos with iCloud, you can definitely recover photos from iCloud Photo Stream this way.
   

   Restore iPhone from iCloud Backup

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