All my pictures are gone from iPhone 4S.

What went wrong? How can I restore them?
At first, I made the setting to transfer pictures to icloud through wifi.
Then, I found I could not delete some pictures I didn't want to show from icloud. So, I changed the setting and deleted all pictures in icloud on both iphone and ipad.
Then, this morning I found that there is only one picuture I just took in the camera roll of my iphone.
Could it be (a) accidental erase; or (b) software bug?
I moved to iPhone from Android phone for this 4S. I basically love the concept and convenience of Apple world. But in some areas, Apple makes things very complecated and difficult.
I expect some changes:
1. make it possible for users to erase pictures from icloud
2. If there is any expiry period on the retention of pictures in iphone, give a warning message bubble up front when we take picture of as days pass.
3. If that erase was an accidentaly event, please make some safety module to picture software.
And I want to know what went wrong with my pictures and how I would get them back.
Thanks.

hypothalamus wrote:
What went wrong? How can I restore them?
...I changed the setting and deleted all pictures in icloud on both iphone and ipad
OK...
Could it be (a) accidental erase; or (b) software bug?
Why would you think it was a bug? It did exactly what you told it to.
I expect some changes
Go ahead and expect all you want... We are not Apple. We are users.
And I want to know what went wrong with my pictures and how I would get them back.
What went wrong is you deleted them. If you want them back, re-sync them from your computer. If you didn't extract them to your computer, as you would with ANY digital camera, then they are gone.

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