Recovering Deleted Photos & Videos From iPad Help

[Crosseyed Sniper]

I apologize if this is posted in the wrong section, but guys, I desperately need your help. I lost a family member recently and want to try and recover some photos and videos of her from my iPad. Within the last few months I took several videos and photos of her, but only kept the ones I really liked, and deleted all others. Now, due to her unexpected death, I would truly love to get those photos and videos back that I din't keep.

 

Is there a way to recover those lost files by connecting the iPad to my desktop Windows 10 pc? Are there any worthy free programs to try?

 

Here's some useful info for you.

I never backed up my photos or videos to iCloud. For some reason, that feature was never enabled.

 

My iPad is a 2015/16 iPad Pro, and only has 32 GB of storage space, so when I deleted files from the Photos folder, I also deleted them from the 'Recently Deleted' folder.

 

I am truly devastated, guys, please help me if you can. It would mean so much to me. 

 

I thank you all very much for any help with this.

[Ja Krispie]

By any chance do you have any backups of the iPad from when the pictures were taken before being deleted?

[Crosseyed Sniper]

Just now, Psybadek said:

By any chance do you have any backups of the iPad from when the pictures were taken before being deleted?

Thank you very much for responding. Now that you mentioned it, I did copy those files to a thumb drive and external drive from iPad. I will run a recovery on those drives. I didn't even think of this. I pray I can recover them. I have successfully recovered files in the past after accidentally deleting files from within Windows.

 

God bless you brother! This may actually be all I need to do. I will let you know how it goes in a day or two.

 

Again, thank you for bringing this to my attention.

[Ja Krispie]

16 minutes ago, Crosseyed Sniper said:

Thank you very much for responding. Now that you mentioned it, I did copy those files to a thumb drive and external drive from iPad. I will run a recovery on those drives. I didn't even think of this. I pray I can recover them. I have successfully recovered files in the past after accidentally deleting files from within Windows.

 

God bless you brother! This may actually be all I need to do. I will let you know how it goes in a day or two.

 

Again, thank you for bringing this to my attention.

No problem! Best wishes in that you can recover the files you lost!

[Crosseyed Sniper]

I still need to try and recover some of the photos and videos from he iPad. Often times when taking pictures with the iPad, I would check to see how it turned out, and if I didn't like it, delete it straight from the IPad, never copying it over to an external drive.

[Crosseyed Sniper]

Thankfully, I was able to successfully recover 3 videos of her from the iPad with this free program, but I know there are more on there. I would love to be able to recover them.