I looked through the API and found nothing. I would take a PHAssetCollection for "Recently Deleted" or a way to get an individual PHAsset s.
I do not recommend (or do not recommend), but there are some solutions outside of the API, and perhaps still AppStore-passable:
You can use the undocumented smart album ID for Recently Deleted, 1000000201 . See this question.
You can filter the text "assetSource=3" in PHAsset.description , see this SO answer .
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