Since most everyone uses smartphone cameras to take photos and videos and since no one ever prints those photos on paper, losing them to a simple mistake happens frequently.
It happened to the LaCapra family a few weeks ago when their teenage daughter was getting ready for a beach vacation with friends.
You might think, as Carrington did, that deleting photos from one device doesn’t affect photos on someone else’s device. But on Apple devices that back up every photo to the iCloud, this isn’t necessarily true. What is on one phone or iPad is also uploaded to the iCloud automatically.In this case, Carrington’s iPad was logged in under her mom Jennifer’s iCloud ID. So when she deleted the photos and videos from the iPad, it also deleted them from the iCloud.
Of course, when you do delete a photo or video from an Apple device it gets saved to a “Recently Deleted” folder before being deleted for good some time later. Since Carrington need storage space on her iPad immediately, she had deleted the “recently deleted” items too.“It was pretty emotional,” said Tim.
This prevents any changes to the iCloud so photos and videos remain in the cloud if you delete them from the phone.