Help/Support Need help recovering photos

Dannyyy · March 3, 2016

Hey guys, earlier i found my old iPod 5th gen and it had a lot of old photos in my photo stream that i don't have on my newer devices. i tried to back them up to my iCloud in the settings but i did something and when i went back to the photos app the photo stream album wasn't there anymore I've tried searching the apple forums but can't seem to find any solution. i tried using photo recovery tools but it couldn't find any photo stream photos cause i didn't "delete" them, i think what i did was turn off my photostream I'm really bummed out.

i also tried going through my iCloud backups but they weren't in there. is there anyway to recover?

Updated March 3, 2016 by Dannyyy

ViRaLSanity · March 3, 2016

Hey guys, earlier i found my old iPod 5th gen and it had a lot of old photos in my photo stream that i don't have on my newer devices. i tried to back them up to my iCloud in the settings but i did something and when i went back to my photo the photo stream album wasn't there anymore I've tried searching the apple forums but can't seem to find any solution. i tried using photo recovery tools but it couldn't find any photo stream photos cause i didn't "delete" them, i think what i did was turn off my photostream I'm really bummed out.

i also tried going through my iCloud backups but they weren't in there. is there anyway to recover?

Try plugging into iTunes then see if u have them backed up.

Dannyyy · March 3, 2016

Try plugging into iTunes then see if u have them backed up.

already did that, there were three backups but didn't have my photo stream pictures

chandy10 · March 3, 2016

According to a bit of googling, if the photos were from the Photo Stream originally then they can't be recovered via iCloud. iCloud only recovers photos from the Camera Roll... Aren't Photo Stream pictures usually also present in the Camera Roll?

Not sure if you use PC or Mac, but Mac has the program called iPhoto/Photos which sometimes stores past pictures and can help you recover them.

Also which iOS version is your old 5th Gen iPod on?

I forgot to mention if you use same Apple ID for all iDevices then sometimes the pictures are shared across those devices under Photo Stream. Maybe check out any other devices to see if some are there?

Yet another edit, have you tried any of the 3rd party recover programs?

iMobie PhoneResuce boasts it can recover from Photo Stream:

It is obviously your choice if you choose to try the program - it requires a license... but I'm sure you can "source" one from the internet...

Updated March 3, 2016 by chandy10