--- title: Your Old Photos Aren’t Lost Yet: What AI Photo... description: AI-based photo restoration tools can reduce noise, repair scratches, sharpen soft details, and improve faded old photographs, but cannot recover information... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/your-old-photos-aren-t-lost-yet-what-ai-photo-restoration-can-actually-fix-in-2026-v3ii2lb9b twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Your Old Photos Aren’t Lost Yet: What AI Photo Restoration Can Actually Fix in 2026 | daily.dev og:description: AI-based photo restoration tools can reduce noise, repair scratches, sharpen soft details, and improve faded old photographs, but cannot recover information... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/your-old-photos-aren-t-lost-yet-what-ai-photo-restoration-can-actually-fix-in-2026-v3ii2lb9b og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/V3ii2lB9b.png og:image:alt: Your Old Photos Aren’t Lost Yet: What AI Photo Restoration Can Actually Fix in 2026 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Your Old Photos Aren’t Lost Yet: What AI Photo Restoration Can Actually Fix in 2026 **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary AI-based photo restoration tools can reduce noise, repair scratches, sharpen soft details, and improve faded old photographs, but cannot recover information that was never captured in the original image. The piece walks through a browser-based tool called MiOffice AI Photo Restorer, which uploads, processes, and downloads a separate restored copy without overwriting the original file, accepting JPG, JPEG, PNG, and WebP images up to 25MB with batch support for 10 images. It recommends a staged workflow of restoring, then colorizing, then upscaling separately rather than trying to do everything in one step, and cautions that facial reconstruction on badly damaged photos can produce a sharper but less accurate likeness. The overall advice is to always keep the original scan alongside any AI-enhanced version, especially for historically significant photographs. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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