iPhone photo recovery for Windows
Plug your iPhone into your PC and RetrievalP shows you every deleted photo and video it can still find. Look through all of it for free. Pay only if you want to keep it.
Tour
RetrievalP reads the photo library, Recently Deleted, the phone’s thumbnail cache, leftover edits and the raw database itself. You can watch each step finish, and results start appearing while it works.
When a photo leaves Recently Deleted, the Photos app often keeps the little preview it made for its grid. RetrievalP finds those and rebuilds them, sometimes months after the photo disappeared.
Open any result to see it large first. When you’re ready, pick your PC or an external drive and save everything, sorted into folders with a report of where each file came from.
Screenshots show the real app with sample pictures in place of personal photos.
What it finds
Where RetrievalP looks on the phone, and the size of what you get from each place.
Anything deleted in the last 30 days or so. You get the original files at full quality, with Live Photo motion and edited versions.
Sometimes the phone keeps a larger preview or an edited copy of a photo after the original is deleted. When it does, you get those.
The Photos app keeps tiny previews for its grid. They can outlast the photo by months, until the phone reuses their space. This is usually all that is left of older deletions.
Drawn to scale against a typical 12-megapixel iPhone photo, 4032 pixels wide.
A full-size original deleted more than about 30 days ago. iOS encrypts every photo with its own key and destroys that key when the photo is deleted for good, so the original can’t be rebuilt by RetrievalP or anyone else. Be wary of any tool that promises otherwise.
How it works
Plug it into your Windows PC with a USB cable, unlock it and tap Trust when it asks. Windows needs Apple’s free iPhone driver, which comes with the Apple Devices app or iTunes.
RetrievalP reads the phone’s photo library and the files around it, then lays out everything it found. Scanning a phone takes a few minutes.
Buy a short pass to copy the results to your computer or an external drive, sorted into folders with a report of where each file came from.
RetrievalP runs entirely on your PC. Your photos and phone data are never uploaded anywhere. Scanning and saving only read from your iPhone. The one thing that deletes anything is the optional clean-up add-on, and only after you confirm.
It goes online only to check your licence key with our payment provider and to look for updates. Your photos never leave your computer. No cookies, no tracking. Privacy policy
€9.99 30-day pass for one computer, VAT included
Scanning is free, and you see every result before you buy. To save what it finds, you buy a short pass. If the scan finds nothing you want, you pay nothing.
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Questions
What you’ll need: a Windows 10 or 11 PC (64-bit), your iPhone with its cable and passcode, Apple Devices or iTunes, and free space for what you save.
When a photo leaves Recently Deleted, iOS deletes the original and the key that encrypted it. What can survive is the small preview the Photos app made for its grid. RetrievalP rebuilds those previews, but it can’t make them bigger than the phone kept them.
Yes. Windows can only talk to an iPhone through Apple’s driver, which comes free with the Apple Devices app (Microsoft Store) or iTunes (apple.com). Open it once with the iPhone connected and tap Trust on the phone. After that, RetrievalP does the rest.
No. Everything happens on your computer. The app only goes online to check your licence key and to look for updates.
Not unless you ask it to. Scanning and saving only read from the phone. The optional clean-up add-on deletes leftovers of photos you already deleted, only after you confirm, and never touches the photos in your library.
Partly, with the clean-up add-on. Some leftover previews and edits are loose files, and RetrievalP can delete those for good. The rest sit inside files the Photos app is using, and deleting from those could damage your library, so RetrievalP leaves them alone. The scan tells you how many of each it found. To clear everything, back up the iPhone, then use Erase All Content and Settings and restore.
Then it cost you nothing. You only buy a pass if there is something you want to save.
Not yet. RetrievalP is for Windows 10 and 11 today, and a Mac version is on the way. The scan will be free there too.
RetrievalP is coming soon for Windows 10 and 11. The scan will be free.