HT4859 Restoring Photos from icloud

I restored a new 4S from an old back up on the computer before I realised I should have restored from current backup in iCloud. how do I recover my photos?

The photos should have been synced to a computer all along for archive.  Many users have lost photos because they were unable to restore them from an iCloud backup.  However, in your case, you could do a reset of the new 4S (Settings>General, scroll to bottom of screen...) and then perform a new installation, be sure to choose the most recent backup from iCloud.  If they do not come back and you don't have them backed to a computer, then they're gone, unfortunately.

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  • HT4859 restore notes from icloud

    My notes just disappeared from my Iphone 4i.   How do you restore notes from icloud?

    If notes were synced to icloud they can be retreived from icloud.com website.
    If notes were backed up to icloud that can be retrieved with restore of device.
    Problem is that if notes were synced to icloud, you are very unlikely to lose those, and chances are you would not be here. Another problem is that notes are in most of the times aren't in backup. Notes normally backed up/synced by imap servers and in that case backup contains only such servers settings, but notes are downloaded later automatically after restore from back up.
    I know all that sounds like blah blah blah, but here is summary
    if notes are not in icloud.com - backup is probably useless and places to check would be notes folders of email accounts that were set up on the phone. Example - I have yahoo account and yahoo server syncs my notes. When I go to yahoo.com and login, there is folder - notepad - contains all my notes, I can copy, save and so on.

  • I don't want to restore photos from icloud onto my new iphone

    Hi there,
    I had an iPhone 4 and just got a new 5c. I backed up my 4 to icloud as i dont't own a laptop. I bought 20GB of storage and everything seemed to work. When I set up new iPhone i selected 'Restore from iCloud Back up' as I need old contacts on this new phone HOWEVER, I do not want all photos on new phone as I donot have enough space and they will fill up my memory. They are already in my iCloud  so I shouldn't need them on new phone. I didn't see any option to just restore data rather than media and so photo stream is downloading constantly but wont finish as there is not enough space on phone. How can I just restore contacts to new phone and not pictures? My other option could be to set up as new iphone, but if I do this can I then download the contacts from my icloud seperately?
    Going slowly insane.

    You can't restore only part of the backup.  Only camera roll photos are stored in the backup and they will have to be restored as part of restoring the entire backup.  Photo stream photos are not stored in the backup; photo stream photos from the last 30 days will stream to your new phone when it signs into your iCloud account.  You can stop this by turning off my photo stream in Settings>iCloud>Photos.
    The other thing you should be aware of is that you can't have photos in iCloud that are not also on your phone.  If you delete them from your phone, they will be deleted from iCloud.

  • Restoring Photos from iCloud without the Backup

    So the guys at the Apple Store thought my backup was corrupt and asked me to Factory Reset my phone and manual restore the data.
    So far so good.  However, the phone is refusing to restore the photos.  It brings back a few hundred and then stops.
    I have the pictures saved elsewhere because I'm deeply paranoid about such things, but I am missing something or is this really how iCloud works?  Because if that's the case it's practically worthless compared to local backups???

    You're welcome.  You can still recover your photos though...  Here's the process:
    Connect your phone to iTunes, right-click on the name of your phone on the left side (if using iTunes 11 first go to View>Show Sidebar) and select Back Up.  This will create a backup of your phone on your computer.
    Go to Settings>General>Reset and tap Erase All Contents and Settings.  This will erase the phone and bring your back to the setup screens again.
    Go through the setup again, and when given the option, choose Restore from iCloud Backup (see image below), sign into the iCloud account where your backup is stored and select your backup to restore from.
    When it's done restoring, import the photos to your computer as explained here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083.
    After confirming that your photos are saved to your computer, go back to Settings>General>Reset and tap Erase All Content and Settings again.
    Go back through the setup screens again, and when given the option, this time choose Restore from iTunes Backup, connect your phone to your computer and restore the backup you made at step 1.
    After restoring, if you want the recovered photos back on your phone, put them in a folder on your computer, then select the folder to sync to your phone on the Photos tab of your iTunes sync settings and sync your phone.

  • HT4859 Restoring backups from iCloud

    Can't restore iCloud backups to my phone even after following the advice online

    Welcome to the Apple Community.
    Navigate to Settings > General > Reset > Erase all contents and settings on the device you want to restore.
    When this completes and the Set-Up Assistant starts, choose "Restore from iCloud Backup" and enter your iCloud account and password. You will see the three most recent backups for each of the devices on which you enabled Backup. Choose which backup to restore from.
    What happens when you try this.

  • HT4859 Restore phone from iCloud

    Just got replacement iPhone 4S started resorting data from iCloud in apple shop but then came home before it completed. Connected to wifi at home but restoration won't complete. What do I do now?

    You and your wife are using the same ID for icloud - that is your problem.  Using the same ID keeps all devices in sync.  Delete something from one device and it goes from all devices.  You should each use your own IDs (have two icloud accounts - but if sharing the same ID for the itunes store, you can keep that ID on each device for the store, not icloud).
    To restore from an icloud backup -
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
    Go to Settings>General>Reset and tap Erase All Content and Settings.  This will erase your phone.  Then you will go through the setup screens again as you did when your phone is new, and when given the option, select Restore from iCloud Backup.
    Changing accounts, creating new account -
    If you already have another icloud account, and want to set it up on a device, then go to Settings>icloud, scroll to bottom of screen and tap Delete Account.  This only disconnects the device from that account, no data is lost on icloud.  Then enter the account ID that you want to use.
    To create a new icloud account, go to
    http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/

  • HT4859 Restore iPhone from iCloud

    I am trying to restore my iPhone from iCloud after initial new phone install

    I need to restore my iphone from an icloud back up. I only see laast nights backup.  Is that the only one available.  I want to restore a text message that was deleted from two days ago.  Is this possible?

  • HT4859 Restore Contacts from iCloud

    Can I restore the edited Contacts from iCloud into my iPhone that is not a new device?

    Here is what happened. Somehow, I synced my iPhone with all of my Google contacts, which added unnecessary garbage to my iPhone contacts. Meanwhile, it automatically backed it up a few times on my iPhone and to the iCloud. In other words, I forever lost my clean phone contact list. Somehow, I only have gmail email list on my iPhone contact list.. bizarre... So, I went to iCloud and cleaned up the contact list since it's a lot easier to do on iCloud than directly on the phone. I even exported the Contact as a vcard into external file. But I can't figure out how to restore my Contact list by importing - either from iCloud, or, from external file into my iPhone.
    Am I clear?

  • HT4859 Restore pictures from iCloud

    How do I restore pictures from iCloud

    Welcome to the Apple Community.
    Which photos, those in photostream or those in a back up.

  • HT4859 Restoring contacts from Icloud

    I am trying to restore my contacts from Icloud and it keeps telling me that my phone is too full.  I have removed all apps and still says that there is a large amount of other stuff.  What is that and how do I get rid of it so I can restore my contacts.

    Here is what happened. Somehow, I synced my iPhone with all of my Google contacts, which added unnecessary garbage to my iPhone contacts. Meanwhile, it automatically backed it up a few times on my iPhone and to the iCloud. In other words, I forever lost my clean phone contact list. Somehow, I only have gmail email list on my iPhone contact list.. bizarre... So, I went to iCloud and cleaned up the contact list since it's a lot easier to do on iCloud than directly on the phone. I even exported the Contact as a vcard into external file. But I can't figure out how to restore my Contact list by importing - either from iCloud, or, from external file into my iPhone.
    Am I clear?

  • Restore photos from icloud

    I have recently lost my iphone whilst travelling and need to recover my photos. I have been backing my iphone up with icloud so I assumed my camera roll would be saved there. However, when my icloud is logged onto there are no photos to be seen...just contacts, notes, mail etc.
    I have been reading the other forums but I'm still confused! Are they there somewhere and able to be restored to my ipad? If so, how do I do this?

    Ok so until I buy a new iphone and restore it via icloud I cannot access these photos at all?
    And if my lost iphone is offline on the find my iphone app, and therefore the lost mode has not been activated, does that mean that whoever finds it may be able to get access to it? I am worried my photos and any personal details stored will be accessed and I'm not sure what to do.
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  • How do I restore photos from iCloud to iPhone?

    I had to replace my phone so I backed it up with iCloud. Photos and everything when I signed in with apple of everything else came up contacts music etcetera. But not photos. Where'd they go?

    Did you restore your iCloud backup to your phone?  That would included your camera roll photos.

  • Restore photo from icloud

    i been restore all my apps and photo with the wifi connection.
    But unfortunately, i went out and lost the wifi connection, then i been fully restore all the apps and half way at the photo.
    So now all my photo was blank.
    May i know how and can i do to continue restore & download back all the photo.
    Hope to receive your reply shortly.

    You will have to start the setup process over. You can do this by choosing Settings > General > Reset > Erase all Content and Settings.

  • TS4062 restored iphone from icloud so I could have all my old photos but now I cannot get it to restore or sync with itunes either by cable or by wifi. I have tried with automatic download off/on, I have had red circles, hours of syncing, nothing, help!!

    restored iphone from icloud so I could have all my old photos but now I cannot get it to restore or sync with itunes either by cable or by wifi. I have tried with automatic download off/on, I have had red circles, hours of syncing, nothing, help!!

    Seems to be a common issue in discussions. Try this:
    http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1538
    And let me know if it helps,

  • How can I restore just photos from iCloud to my iphone?

    I mistakenly deleted a number of photos from my iphone.
    how do you restore them from icloud (WITHOUT doing a full restore of everything)?

    Unfortunately, there is no other way(, but maybe they are still in your photo stream.)

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