Recovery from transfer mistake

I messed up, Attached iPhone 16 to Windows laptop to transfer photos for work and accidentally deleted a fair portion while in the file explorer on pc under the iPhone tree. Cannot find the photos on device, pc, and they unfortunately weren't backed up via cloud and cloud synced right after this happened.

So quick summary, I am new to iphones. This is partially related. I have a work phone (16) and I used it to record a ton of data for my job via screenshot. I got back to office and was transferring screenshot and pics from phone to computer, noticed a couple I didnt need, had them highlighted in the file explorer and pressed delete. Realized I highlighted the entire list and stopped it immediately but lost about 23 photos. Can I get these back?

I have tried to pull from old backup but of course the backup is from Monday, data collected Wednesday recent backup is this morning after I freaking deleted everything accidentally. Ive spent the last 3 hours trying to figure this out, any suggestions? Using windows laptop. Files are not in recently deleted, assuming because I deleted them via computer. Thanks

Posted Mar 19, 2026, 7:19 PM UTC

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