Recover Deleted pics from iphone?

My friend passed away today in a fatal car accident. And a few months ago when i updated it to ios6, i lost all of my pictures… I had pictures of me and my friend on my phone and it would honestly mean so much to me if anyone could help me figure out to get them back. I already backed up my phone many times so i'm not sure thats an option.

Check your icloud, settings, icloud. If photo stream was on, it should be in icloud. Sorry about your friend.

As a matter of fact, every time you sync data between iPhone and iTunes, all previous data will be automatically backed up by iTunes and stored as a.sqlitedb file, which will be updated along with the later sync continuously. But those backup files can't be viewed or taken out unless you use some software using special algorithms to extract. For such kind of software, you may try Tenorshare iTunes Data Recovery, which helped me before.