
However, you can recover and restore deleted pictures using third-party professional photo recovery tools. These images and pictures are on your hard disk, but you can’t access them. Permanently deleted photos don’t go anywhere. Photos deleted from the Photos app and iCloud (macOS, iOS, & iPadOS) go to the Recently Deleted folder of the iCloud Photos.

Perhaps, you may have set to empty the Bin after 30 days.

You may delete photos or albums from the Finder app.You may delete photos from the Photos app.

There are multiple reasons for photos loss on your Mac devices.
