Recovering my photos from my smartphone

chenwiya67 -  
 chenwiya67 -
Hello
yesterday I posted a message about having accidentally deleted my photos on my smartphone, and I posted on a data recovery forum. I believe the photos are considered data, and I can’t recover them because I deleted them before activating the recycle bin. I would like to receive responses so that the photos are not permanently deleted since there is a retention period.
Thank you for your understanding, and thanks to the whole team. Thank you very much.

8 answers

  1. gthevenet Posted messages 400 Status Member 20
     
    There are phone recovery tools for Android, and it's likely that similar software exists for iPhone.

    I just did a bit of web research, so I invite you to be cautious and form your own opinion.

    It works if your photos have been deleted from the trash and are on the SD card.
    Basically, it's like on a PC; depending on the site, you can also see the "recoverable" photos. I advise you to avoid using your SD card and to act as quickly as possible; if it's like on a PC, the more you write on it, the less chance you have of recovering your photos.

    Of course, this is the last resort; first, check that they are not in the trash or saved on the cloud or PC, but you said that wasn't the case.
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  2. gthevenet Posted messages 400 Status Member 20
     
    Ok so you put the photos in your trash then you emptied it basically.
    Just for the record, is your phone an Android or an iPhone?
    It seems to me that otherwise it's not the same software.

    You also have Dumpster to avoid this kind of accident, it basically saves automatically if you put something in the trash (or delete it).
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  3. Papounet17000 Posted messages 26460 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   9 895
     
    Hi,

    Check that these haven't been synced to Google Photos, in which case you can retrieve them.

    Otherwise, it's impossible to recover what has been deleted on a smartphone.
    It's not a PC.

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  4. chenwiya67
     
    Hello
    Thank you for the response, but my photos were in the gallery and not in Google Photos. That's why I'd like to know if there's a method to recover my photos. They told me I need to activate the trash, but I deleted the photos before activating the trash because if that were the case, it would be easy to recover them. You just go to the trash, select the photos, and then click restore. But that's not the case for me; I didn't activate the trash before accidentally deleting my photos.
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  5. chenwiya67
     
    Hello
    Thank you for the reply. Here's my problem: I deleted the photos before activating the recycle bin because if that had been the case, I could have restored them directly. But now I've realized that I can't recover the photos because the recycle bin wasn't activated. For example, you click on the recycle bin, then move the photos to the recycle bin, and after that, you restore the photos. But I didn't activate the recycle bin option; I didn't know before. I only stored my photos in the gallery. However, I will check what you suggested, and then I will get back to you with an answer. Thank you very much.
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  6. chenwiya67
     
    Hello
    I have a Galaxy J4+ smartphone and by mistake, I deleted my photos. When I tried to recover them, I was told that when you buy an Android, the recycle bin must be activated in order to restore deleted photos. Now I can't because I didn't activate the recycle bin before. So, can I recover my deleted photos or not?
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  7. gthevenet Posted messages 400 Status Member 20
     
    So it's good, it's really Android.

    Maybe I can't be categorical; try what I mentioned above.
    Phone recovery (or similar software).

    In a second dumpster, it's to avoid this kind of accident.

    As long as your problem is not resolved, avoid adding or deleting any data.

    Try that first, knowing that you can either recover all your photos, which would be perfect, or just some, or none at all.
    There might be other more powerful software available for purchase, but this one is not paid, it seems.
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  8. chenwiya67
     
    Hello
    Thank you very much for your response. I will try what you told me, and then I will see if it worked or not, and I will let you know. I hope, thank you very much.
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