"However, the files could have persisted from one device to another when restoring from a backup, performing a device-to-device transfer, or when restoring from

"However, the files could have persisted from one device to another when restoring from a backup, performing a device-to-device transfer, or when restoring from an iCloud Backup..." Very nice that means it is in general possible to recover deleted photos from old devices and backups. I guess that would also work for files. Hopefully there will be a script written and incoperated into an app to scan, recover and overwrite files.