How to Recover Photos from iCloud Photo Stream

I lost my iPhone 5s and had some pictures from it synced to photo stream before it was lost. However, I accidently deleted one of them from photo stream on my new iPhone. Is there a way to recover the photo? Since it was technically on iCloud/photo stream at one point (just deleted it by accident today), shouldn't there be a way to get it back?

It may occurs to you sometimes when you accidently delete photos in your iPhone or iPad. If that happens to you, don't panic. iPhone has offered you the Photo Stream feature where you can store photos on iCloud. You can recover photos from iCloud if your lost photo still exists in Photo Stream. Even if it's not, there is still a perfect way to retrieve your lost/delete photos from iCloud. The following article is going to show you two situations seperately.

Recover Photos from iCloud Photo Stream

• Part 1. How to restore lost/deleted photos from iCloud photo stream
  • Situation 1: The lost photos still exist in iCloud photo stream
  • Situation 2: Can't find deleted photos in iCloud backup
• Part 2. Extending Reading: Something you should know about iCloud Photo Stream

Part 1. How to restore lost/deleted photos from iCloud photo stream

If you accidently delete some valuable pictures, what will you do? In the following parts of this article, we will show you two methods to recover your iPhone/iPad/iPod photos from iCloud photo stream.

Situation 1: The lost photos still exist in iCloud photo stream

Step 1 Unlock your iPhone/iPad/iPod, click Settings > iCloud > Reset > Erase All Content and Settings.

Step 2 Take iPhone as an example. After the data erasing, there are three choices for you to choose, Set Up as New iPhone, Restore from iCloud Backup, and Restore from iTunes Backup.

Click Restore from iCloud Backup, and select the suitable backup to bring the deleted photos back to your iPhone. In this way, you can easily recover lost photos from iCloud backup to iPhone.

As long as you make sure that you have uploaded photos to Photo Stream, you can easily use this method to retrieve deleted photos from iCloud Photo stream. However, this method would make you erase all settings and data on your iPhone. If that's not what you want, you can move to the next method.

Situation 2: Can't find deleted photos in iCloud backup

If you didn't have a habit to back up data to your iCloud frequently, or cannot find the important photos in photo stream or other photo folders in your iOS device. You will need a powerful iOS Photo Recovery to help you restore your valuable pictures from iCloud photo stream. It is designed to help iPhone/iPad/iPod users recover deleted/lost files including photos, camera roll, contacts, messages, massage attachments, call history, calendar, notes, reminders and voice memos.

First, download and install this iPhone Photo recovery tool on your PC/Mac.

This step-by-step guide tells you the best way to recover photos from Photo stream in iCloud.

Step 1 Launch this iDevice photo recovery software on your PC/Mac.

Step 2 Connect your iOS device to computer via USB cable and click Start Scan. In order to retrieve from iCloud photo stream. you need to choose Recover from iCloud Backup File.

Step 3 Sign in your iCloud account, and you will see all iCloud backup files in the list. Find the one that you want to recover, and click Download button to download iCloud backup files.

Step 4 Wait minutes for this program to scan the data. After a while, all your iPhone data will be classified into categories and displayed in the interface. Click Photo Stream on the left list to preview the deleted photos. It allows you to view the detailed information of each lost photo, so it's very convenient for you to select the photos you want to recover.

Note: You can slide the ON/OFF button which lies on the top side of the data list to show the deleted item(s) only.)

Step 5 Select photos need to be retrieved, then click Recover button to recover your lost photos from iCloud photo stream to your iPhone/iPad.

After getting back deleted iPhone files to PC/Mac, you can use an iOS Data Transfer to transfer them from computer to iPhone/iPad/iPod.

Tips

1. This excellent iOS photo recovery tool enables you to restore lost/deleted pictures from Camera Roll, Photo Stream, Photo Library, and App photos.

2. Besides photos, it has the capability to recover other lost or deleted iOS files like SMS messages, contacts, call history, notes, calendar, reminders, Safari bookmark/history and more.

3. It can work as the iOS files backup software to help you to back up your important data to PC/Mac.

4. This photo recovery app provides another two methods to retrieve the missing files. You can choose Recover from iOS Device or Recover from iTunes Backup File. See how does it work to help you recover photos pictures from iTunes backup.

To avoid any important data loss, you should frequently back up iPhone to PC/Mac.

Part 2. Something you should know about iCloud Photo Stream

After you've learned how to retrieve photos from iCloud photo stream. Let's get more related information about iCloud backup, photo stream and its sync principle.

Photo Stream is a very useful function of iCloud. When you connect to Wi-Fi network, it will automatically copy pictures between all iOS devices like iPhone7 Plus/7/ SE/6s Plus/6s/6 Plus/6/5s/5c/5/4S, iPad Pro/Air 2/mini 4, iPod and more after taking photos. But the photos are not saved at iCloud, which is different from the iCloud photo library.

1. According to Apple's documentation, each iOS device can only keep 1000 photos taken on iOS device in recent three months.

2. Photo Stream copies are optimized for your iPhone/iPad/iPod getting a copy, so the Photos in photo stream will likely be smaller than the original ones.

3. Videos won't be copied in Photo Stream.

In this article, we mainly describe two methods to recover your deleted or lost photos. If you are facing the situation that important iPhone/iPad/iPod photos are missing, you can try the methods to solve your problem.