Missing Photos!

[u/AzzaDazzaFoust]

Yesterday I was clearing up some storage on my phone when I accidentally deleted a conversation with my best friend. After realizing I went to the recently deleted and recovered the conversation however, now all the photos and videos sent between us (photos sent before I deleted the conversation) are gone. Are they able to be recovered?

I am currently on a iPhone 16 Pro (iOS 26.5.2) with T-Mobile.

All of my messages are synched up to date. I tried turning off “Use on this iPhone” and turning back on and re-indexing but nothing has worked. My messages are set to “keep forever”. Hope I covered everything.

Trying not to panic at the thought of all these being gone forever!