A few years ago my google drive and google photos wiped everything out of the blue. All my essays from middle school to university and thousands of photos, gone.
I just found an old iPhone that’s not connected to the internet, and when I opened google drive, all I can see are thumbnails, but everything is there! There are images on both google drive and photos, although they’re different images, on drive I can only see thumbnails while on photos I can see the full image, but it would take forever to select them all to download and I don’t think there’s enough space on the phone to do that.
I tried asking in a google drive forum, and they told me that if the phone connects to internet, everything will be wiped. Is there any way to restore these files? Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated, just seeing the few thumbnails available made me tear up with memories