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Have you accidentally deleted photos on your phone and want to cancel this action? Don't worry, learn how to recover deleted photos on Android even if you haven't done one backup and learn how to prevent this problem from happening again! 663d60
How to recover deleted photos in Google Photos f1fb
If your cell phone uses Google Photos as the device's default photo gallery, as in smartphones with “Pure Android”, when you delete a photo, it will not be literally deleted from your phone, but moved to the application's Trash folder.
When moved to Recycle Bin, photos deleted on mobile will only be permanently deleted if:
- Have been in the Trash for more than 60 days;
- Have been there for 30 days or more, in the case of mobile phones with Android 11 or newer installed, without a backup previously;
- The Recycle Bin is emptied, which deletes all items in the folder;
- The image has been permanently deleted from the Recycle Bin;
- Or the image has been deleted from the phone's native “Photo Gallery” without first being saved to Google Photos.
Right after the photo has been deleted, you can still undo the action by clicking the undo button that appears in the lower right corner of the screen, as in the image below, which will move the image back to your home folder.
Google Photos offers option
to undo the action
If the image you are looking for does not meet the listed conditions of permanently deleting the application file, it will be found in the Trash folder of Google Photos. When selecting one or more images, it is possible to permanently delete it by clicking on the “Delete” option in the lower left corner. By clicking on the “Restore” option in the right corner, all the selected photos that had been deleted are recovered.
The application asks for confirmation of deletion or recovery of images and videos. When confirmation occurs, a message appears to inform you that the action has been performed.
How to recover deleted photos using DiskDigger 492x4a
There are several application options to recover deleted photos on Android, and one of them is the DiskDigger, available on Google Play. It is important to say that this application is more successful on devices with root, but it can also work on devices without root.
In addition to the difficulty of the process for devices without root, the recovered photos are of lower quality as they are retrieved from the cache of the thumbnail of the image, that is, a much smaller preview version of the original image, not the entire image. To recover the original photo, you need to use the application on a device with root and also pay for version Pro do DiskDigger and even with this version there is no guarantee that it will be possible to recover what has been lost. Currently, the Disk Digger Pro costs R$ 9,53 in the app store.
Once installed, open the application and see the screen shown in the image below. By clicking on the “Start Basic Photo Scan“, the app will ask for permission to access photos — which is necessary for the scan to take place.
From the permission granted to the DiskDigger, it will start the search and will be able to find the deleted images from the cell phone, then it will be possible to permanently delete the photos found or recover them by clicking on the “Recover Photos” button, as in the image below. The app shows all the images from your phone in a process that can take some time, so it's important to filter the photo you want to find by the date it was taken, if you know.
By clicking on the photo recovery button, a box is shown on the screen for the to decide how he wants to recover the files:
- Save the file to some cloud storage like Email, Dropbox or Google Drive;
- Save to the phone's internal storage;
- Save to an FTP server.
How to Recover Deleted Photos from SD Card with Recuva 362f1e
If you intend to recover deleted photo from SD card, it is easier to recover photos using a computer with SD card reader and a program to do the recovery, such as Recuva. Start ing and installing the Recuva. After the installation is complete, insert the SD card into the reader, and open Recuva.
After installing the application, Recuva will show a message asking which type of file you want to recover, which can be all files or a specific type, to reduce the search time.
When clicking to continue the process, choose the option “Iin the specific location" and then "Browse” to browse the folder where the SD card is located on your computer.
Next, another message will be shown, and it is important to enable the option “Enable deep scan“, as shown in the image below. This will make it find deleted files.
The process may take a while depending on how many files you had on your SD card and also how many file types will be fetched. After finishing, a screen will be shown with all the files found, as in the image below.
Then click the checkbox to choose the files you want to recover and click the “Recover“, which is clickable after the first file is selected. It will open a box to choose the folder where the recovered files will be saved, as in the image below.
By selecting the folder and clicking on “OK“, then a new message will appear informing you that the files have been saved in the selected folder on your computer. Click in "OK” again, and the recovery will be complete.
How to avoid losing photos on your phone 6r2y3z
If you don't want to lose the deleted photos on your phone, the best option is to sync the images saved on your device with some application for cloud storage. Among the options available in Android, one of them is usually already installed on your cell phone, and we've already talked about it: the Google Photos. You may prefer the One Drive or the Dropbox, but Google Photos is the most convenient as it's already on the device.
To sync your photos with Google Photos, open the app and click on your photo, which will open your screen in the app, as in the image below.
When you click on the “Photo Settings” option, the application configuration screen will open as follows:
Select the “Backup and Sync” option. A window will open to enable photos from your cell phone to be saved in the Google cloud.
You can also choose the quality of the saved images, since the size limit for free storage is 15GB by Google, in addition to other settings, such as just doing of photos when the phone is connected to Wi-Fi.
These are our tips to recover deleted photos on Android, and how to avoid losing photos in the future. Let us know in the comments if you recommend other services or apps to solve this kind of problem.
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