Carney Forensics Blog

Phone Forensics for Lawyers: Recover Deleted iPhone Videos

Lawyers can recover deleted videos from iPhones by checking the connected iCloud account, even if they've been deleted from the device and its 'Recently Deleted' folder. Our lab experiment showed that videos deleted from an iPhone and its 'Recently Deleted' folder remained in the connected iCloud account for several days, sometimes weeks, before Apple finally expunged them. This means a digital forensics expert might succeed in forensically collecting the evidence from iCloud before it's permanently gone.