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?

If you enabled iCloud Photos on your iPhone, all your photos and videos will be stored in iCloud. And you can view all these photos on Apple devices that are logged in the same Apple ID. So you can download a copy of your photos and videos on any device with iCloud Photos.

If you accidentally deleted photos from your iPhone, you can try to restore photos from iCloud back to your iPhone. Here in this post, we’d like to share with you the proven methods to download photos from iCloud.

 

How Do I Retrieve Photos from iCloud to my iPhone?

To help you recover deleted photos from iCloud, PhoneRescue for iOS-the best iPhone Recovery software 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:

• Download photos from iCloud backup.
• You can preview iCloud photos and choose to recover photos without erasing previous data.
• Photos are retrieved directly to the Photos app or saved to your computer (PC/Mac).
• It also supports recovering deleted messages, videos, contacts, notes, calendars, etc.
• Besides, you can also recover deleted data from iPhone without backup, or an iTunes backup.

Download Deleted Photos from iCloud to iPhone

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.

1. Visit the iCloud website and log in to your iCloud account and password.
2. Select “Photos” in the left control panel of the homepage, and then you can see the recently deleted options.
3. Click this option to view recently deleted images.
4. From the available pictures, you can mark those you need to return and click the “Recover” button.

How to Download Photos from iCloud to Computer

iCloud also allows you to download photos directly to your computer. Just log in to the iCloud website, here you can view all synced iCloud photos and videos on your iPhone. And you can click the Download button to get iCloud to your Windows or Mac.

What’s more, once you sign in to iCloud, you can upload photos to your iCloud, delete photos from iCloud, etc.

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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