When you delete anything from your Mac's local storage, the file itself is never deleted immediately. Instead, it is first moved to the Trash, where it becomes invisible and marked as overwritten by the system. Only after the system overwrites the deleted file is it truly deleted and unrecoverable. However, if you delete any file on your Mac from iCloud Drive, it will not be moved to the trash. Instead, the file will be truly deleted, so you can't recover it in any way. However, there is a way to recover files deleted from iCloud Drive restore.
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How to recover deleted files from Mac iCloud Drive
Deleted files from iCloud Drive works much like when you delete some photos from your iPhone – they move to the Recently Deleted folder, from where you can restore them for 30 days. The problem is that in FinderOn a Mac, you would have a hard time finding the Recently Deleted folder. So follow these steps:
- First, you need to move to any one web browser.
- Once you do that, go to the website iCloud.com.
- After you find yourself on the site, do it in the classic way log in.
- V Safari can be used Touch ID, elsewhere you will need to enter the password for Apple ID.
- After successfully logging in to the home page,Cloudopen iCloud Drive.
- Now in the lower right corner tap on the button Recently deleted.
- It's enough here mark the files you want to restore.
- After marking all the files, click the button at the top Restore.
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The above method can also be used on a Mac in the web interfaceCloudu recover files that you managed to delete from iCloud DriveYou can also restore these files on your iPhone or iPad in the app. files, where directly the folder Recently deleted you will find If you need to restore, for example, contacts, calendars or bookmarks, just go to the site iCloud.com and after logging in they clicked under your name on Account settings. Get off here all the way down and in the lower left corner in the category Advanced click on specific option for data recovery.
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...because the "Recently Deleted" feature is actuallyCloudnew version of the desktop trash can :-)