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Can delete pictures be recovered in smartphone?

When it comes to recovering deleted photos or pictures in laptops and desktop computers, with the aid of recycle bin it's made possible. Just few clicks in the recycle bin and you would have the deleted item restored. 

I don't think this is possible with any smartphone yet but it's something that would be worth it if there is a software for it in Android or iOs devices. 

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jayjaydimson
Well, technology has become more advanced as time goes by, and I think it can be recovered in the near future.



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jeffreyjose48
I agree with you. Deleted pictures in personal computer can be restored. But deleted pictures in the smartphone is deleted permanently.



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Youngshark
It actually depends on the manner that they were stored and the app you used to delete them. Google photos stores the pictures temporarily in the trash before they are removed if not recovered after 60 days.



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vinaya
well, deleted photos on your smartphone can be easily restored. You can find apps that just work like recycle bin of your computer. When you delete, the deleted images/files are stored on the recycle bin, you can easily recover your deleted photos. Oppo phones have inbuilt recycle bin, deleted photos are stored for 30 days.



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Wenkx03
ASUS phones have it to. A built-in recycle bin. I accidentally delete picture last time that i was checking my phone. And a pop up reminder pop up that my recycle bin getting full. I was shock but it was a relieve actually.



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jeffreyjose48
I think if those smartphone makers hear your comment, they will invent another phone to solve this problem. They need to hear this feedback. They need to do something about this.



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jayjaydimson
We will not know what a technology can do this day, maybe there are some people knows how to do it, that's why there are a lot of scandals happening on the social media, it's because of the videos and pictures were stolen from they smartphones.



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menchuuy58
In the future technology will soon be better and better. I agree with you. I think someone will also come to think of inventing this.



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amelia88
I think it's also a good reminder to ensure that you back things up off your smartphone to something else, like an external hard drive. Potentially losing pictures by erroneously deleting something could be devastating!



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jayjaydimson
Yes, of course, and technology never fail to amazed me every day, just don't give your full trust to a technology, because it may be the reason for your failure.



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stbrians
Ha ha ha ha technology is really amazing. It changes with change and becomes the change.



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Steve5
Yes, it's funny when you think about it. I've also wondered if phones have something like a recycle bin. Maybe they do. It could be where deleted stuff is stored until it needs to be retrieved.



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Steve5
I agree. It's often something that amazes us in every way. But like you said, you can't really be sure about how it works. Not all phones can have their pictures recovered.



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theresajane
Am I the only one who wishes that we can just freely tag smartphone companies in this thread? This topic is a great idea and I hope that someone from any company would be able to come up with an idea of putting built-in recycle bins on smartphones.



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amelia88
Haha, it would be nice if it was easier to get these manufacturer's attention. Maybe we should go and find their social media pages and ask on there!! I feel like it's much easier to get a response from a company these days than it once used to be.



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stbrians
I agree. We should tag phone companies. They should come up with recycle bin.



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Steve5
It does seem like a nice idea. But the problem with recycle bins is that they also occupy memory. And with phones having less storage than most computers, you'll still have to delete stuff on a regular basis.



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Martinsx1
Yes, we are all looking forward to having such feature of recovering deleted pictures on smartphone upgraded on phone devices. But at the moment, we are yet to have it. Let's keep being hopeful that sooner rather than later, we are going to witness the technological breakthrough.



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stbrians
It will be a great idea. Recycle bin will soon appear on phones. Am positive.



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nrnlss
I agree with you, but I think a lot of people already know how to recover a deleted photos.



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DenisP
Actually, we don’t have to wait for the near future to arrive because the technology is already available! There’s actually a lot of software out there dedicated to recovering deleted, corrupted, or otherwise lost files.

Everything from pictures, to music, to documents can be recovered after being deleted. This is because whenever you delete something, it isn’t actually deleted. There are still bits and pieces of data remaining on the hardware for a limited amount of time (until they’re replaced). There is software available that gathers these bits and pieces and recover your data for you.

Yay technology!



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Martinsx1
I very much agree with you on this about some dedicated softwares being in existence that can be used to recover any lost, deleted and corrupted files. But I'm definitely going to be very honest with you about where I have only seen it done which is in movies of CIA and DOD American movies. I don't think such softwares are readily available in the general market like Google play store or Apple store.



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stbrians
Which is this software? I should download it on my phone.



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DenisP
I’m familiar with different types of recovery software, but I’m not sure which is the best—at least not from personal experience. I did a quick Google search to find which free software was considering to be the best in 2018, and it seems to be a program called Recuva.

Apparently, it can restore files from hard drives, DVDs/CDs, memory cards, and external hard drives. It seems to have just about everything that anyone would need, all for free (and apparently some inexpensive features you can pay for).

I’ll be giving it a look if I ever accidentally delete anything.



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theresajane
I guess it would be possible if you have synced your phone or photos to any app that helps restore your photos. But, as of now, yes, I haven't found a smartphone that has a "recycle bin" feature like in the computers, nothing, as far as I know, but if there is, I would be glad to be enlightened.



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jeffreyjose48
There is no recycle bin yet in smartphones. I hope and pray that somebody invent this kind of phone. Let them hear this feedback.



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Martinsx1
I have actually lost so many pictures as a result of not syncing them to especially Google photo application. I have actually tried to do that in the past but one thing keeps putting me off and I haven't been able to do so till now. But as I lost one important picture recently, I have already backed up all my pictures except the ones I took this morning.



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stbrians
I have a hunch it is coming sooner than later. We will soon have it on our phones



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sonnyisabeast
I think I've watched enough movies and TV shows to say yes to this question. Maybe it is possible in real life, too?



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Steve5
Yes, it's likely the case. If people can hack your smartphone, then surely they can easily recover deleted files. It would be so basic to them. The public just often assumes that it can't be recovered. And they panic once they "accidentally" delete something important.



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Martinsx1
Seriously, if you compare what we see in movies to what we have possible in real life, it would seem like our current world is still 20 centuries behind the world in movies.

So most times, I regard all I see in movies as just pure fiction because it's very hard to have such technology in the real world or even if it's possible, it's limited to few people.



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stbrians
How I wish this one was possible. I have lost many good photos due to deleted photos on my smartphone. I am sure in the near future the recovering wi be pissible



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Martinsx1
I think that if you are the careless type of person like myself, you are definitely going keep deleting most of your important pictures and keep regretting it.

The pictures that I have lost under such circumstances are uncountable and I really wish I'd be able to recover some of them.



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theresajane
I also with about that too. There are a lot of people who become frustrated because of the important photos that they lost. I hope manufacturing companies will put the recycle bin in the system someday.



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Steve5
I think so. It's very easy for tech experts to recover lost and deleted files. The only exception would be if you did more than just delete them. Most of what we delete on our gadgets can be restored. We just don't normally need to since we deleted them in the first place.



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Martinsx1
Well, not everyone have the skills and knowledge as well as the expertise required to carry out such data recovery process.

Moreover, there are sophisticated tools and softwares required to carry this out. They are not available in the open market.



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stbrians
How do you recover them? Tell me I want to know.



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nrnlss
I guess, if your phone was connected to your gmail you can recover it using a gmail.



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Martinsx1
Most phones are connected to Gmail account but if you fail to upload your photos to the mail or have them backed up, you would never get them when you login to your Google account.

Google is a very good bank to store one's millions of pictures by few clicks.



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edencaga
In Samsung phones I think if you sync your pictures in your google account you will recover your pictures once you check your account in google ( I am not sure). In iphone, syncing your files in icloud is very important as long as you have enough storage room. In Iphone also if you delete your pictures you can still see it in one album (deleted images), after 30 days it will be deleted permanently.



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Martinsx1
I haven't used iPhone, so I don't even know it's possible to have your deleted pictures in a deleted folder till 30 days before it's finally deleted entirely.

I'm definitely going to use iPhone some day in the future but at the moment, I just simply can't afford to acquire it now but it's a good phone in general.



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anyone01
Thankfully, Android system stores the thumbnail of each picture inside the gallery. In case you manually deleted your picture many apps can recover it however it will likely be a bit bit pixlated. Simply quickly as time doesn’t assist with recovering pictures. Many android apps available at Google Play each free and paid may have specific outcomes, a few apps would require Rooted devices other do not.



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Martinsx1
I have this habit of deleting new folders that I didn't create by myself, so I have always deleted the thumbnail folder in the phone storage. Although, I have seen some of the thumbnail pictures but I still eventually wipe it all.



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DenisP
They can but only to a certain degree. I’m not entirely sure how the process works, but a degree of data is still stored on the phone even after a photo has been deleted. By using a program like Power Data Recovery, you can recover your photos but only within a limited amount of time.

Eventually as more information is added to your phone, the stored data is replaced and your pictures won’t be recoverable anymore, so it’s important to act fast if you want to retrieve any files you accidentally deleted. Also, if the phone has been formatted, there is zero chance of recovering any information, as far as I'm aware at least.



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Martinsx1
"... Power Data Recovery.. "

I haven't heard about this software program before but if it's very functional and effective in helping to recover and restore old deleted pictures, then I'm definitely going to see the possibility of getting it and giving it a trial.



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theresajane
I haven't heard about the app before. But I honestly would want that in the future, every phone has their built-in recycle bin and so everyone wouldn't be frustrated about their pictures anymore.



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Kakashi2020
There are several ways of recovering deleted files on your smartphone.

One way is via recovery apps.
Second is to connect your Android to a PC and install and run the phone memory recovery for Android on your PC.



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Martinsx1
I know about saving up your pictures on your computer system, it's not really what I'm referring to but it's definitely a good means for having backup for all of your pictures in case you lose it tomorrow to virus or other problems.

On recovery applications, which particular one are you recommending? Hope they are available on Google play store?



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jpk0007
That is very true, we can recover our deleted pictures from the computers or laptops very easily. it is not very easy when one has to recover the deleted pics from the mobile phones. However if you have chosen the option of storing the pics to the Google drive along with your phone storage, then you may be able to restore them in your phone through the Google drive.



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Barida
That is true. Users of smart phones can always make use of this method to recover the pictures that they have lost especially when they are working ways to get this done as well.



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Martinsx1
Seriously, I have asked this question over and over again for countless times but never got any useful information until I asked here on pixelClerks.

Even though it's a lot easier to recover deleted pictures on PC, now it seems possible to do so on Android devices with some recovery software. Although, some of these softwares can fail at any point in time.



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focusedwriter10
Depending on your smartphone, you can recover the photos. I am currently using tecno camon 7, and whenever I delete photos, a deleted recently folder gets created automatically. It is upon me to decide if I want to delete the photos forever.
Thus, you can recover depending on your device.



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Martinsx1
I'm actually a good fan of Tecno android smartphone products. I have had the pleasure of using Tecno Camon 8 but I have never experienced this feature which you just mentioned about that the Camon 7 came with. I'm very aware that the C8 is an upgrade from the C7, so it's supposed to have this pictures recovery feature.



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Barida
There is always that possibility to back up some of those files on cloud mode. So, when they are deleted from the mobile phone, you can easily recover them using that means. It is something that is easier to do in the long-term when you may have need for such pictures.



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Martinsx1
Well, it's pretty obvious that the best way to ensure that you don't lose your pictures finally would be to have them all backed up one way or another.

The pictures can be backed up on social media sites, Google drives and external hard drives. So, in the event of any damage to the device, all the pictures can easily be recovered.



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amelia88
I don't know about every phone, but my deleted items go to a "recently deleted" folder on my iPhone and they sit there for 30 days. As long as I get to them before that, it's fine. Usually when I'm deleting things I'm doing it deliberately rather than accidentally but if I do happen to accidentally hit delete I just go to the "recently deleted" folder and recover it.



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mdayrit
My iPhone does that too. It is easier to retrieve photos you accidentally deleted in the recently deleted photos. Just make sure you bring it out of the folder before it is completely gone. Not sure if other phones also have that but my Samsung Note5 doesn't.



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Martinsx1
I'm very aware that iPhone has such feature of recovering deleted files. The kind of technology behind the production of iPhone is excellent and awesome. So, recovering deleted pictures is a very cheap task for a sophisticated device like an iPhone.

I'm sure if you are well aware that iPhone can be used under water. This is the best feature I have seen so far in iPhone.



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MomoStarr16
I think it can be done but not in our time right now. I never heard of that happen before. Some one should invented it to make use of it. It will be helpful.



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Martinsx1
Before now, I had believed that it's not possible to recover any deleted files or pictures from an android device. But as I'm worried about this issue, so were software developers because it's something very useful to be able to recover any deleted file for future use and reference purposes. So, I'm sure some software are capable of getting the job done now.



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esteban123
Well that is really a great questions that really needs an immediate answer if possible since I have never heard such mobile phone that can have a certain features like that unless it is a computer. I think that this is one of the things that developers and producer of mobile phones should think about since it would be a big help in times of great needs.



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Martinsx1
At the moment, some spin off application softwares can be able to recover some deleted pictures to an extent but not completely.

But hopefully in the future, this feature would be installed in all Android devices and not only iPhone.



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jayjaydimson
I don't know yet if there's a specific software that can really retrieve deleted pictures. The technology never stops, so I guess there is it's not just being broadcast.



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Martinsx1
I was informed that there are some softwares that are capable of getting this task of recovery of deleted pictures possible.

Although, I'm yet to give it a test trial but I'm sure that there is almost nothing difficult for technology to handle. Sooner or later, such application software will become public knowledge.



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jaybee19
The inability to restore deleted photos on a Smartphone is a actually a long time problem for smartphone users. That is actually why I guess Apple is making use of their cloud storage system in order for their users to still recover their files and stuff. On the other hand, I am actually a bit safe with this kind of problem because the Smartphone I'm using right now which is Oppo, actually has a feature like the Recycle bin which stores your deleted photos for 30 days on a dedicated file folder on your gallery. However, it's only for a limited time as I've stated and you must decide whether to keep the photos and store it on your cloud/other storage devices or let them be deleted completely after 30 days.



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Martinsx1
Apple phone users have a lot of features that they enjoy which sets them apart from Android phone users. This issue of deleted pictures doesn't bother them at all because of their could storage.

I'm not even aware that OPPO phones are built in with recycle bin software that holds deleted pictures for 30 days. This is very impressive.



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esteban123
I think in the coming years some developers can invent some smartphones that has now the ability to restore deleted files just like what our computers can do. It is not impossible to have such since nowadays computers and mobile phones have now some similarities in terms of features and applications which is really great.



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Martinsx1
Definitely, I believe so as well that in no distant time in the future, all Android devices would come with the feature of cloud storage that would allow for easier recovery of any deleted pictures or any file whatsoever.



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Judas2018
Jut because something is deleted doesn't mean it's gone for good. But you'd have to act fast, and find a shop where they specialize in taking apart mobile devices and then accessing the root data drive or chip. From there they might be able to recover your photo(s) depending on time of deletion. It'll be expensive though.



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Martinsx1
Seriously, I don't think that I have to go too far with taking my smartphone to a tech store and have it disassembled in order to recover lost or deleted files.

If there is no third party software that can dig into the root drive of the device and restore the lost file, I would give up on recovering of the data unless the matter is a life and death situation.



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ajahcuizon
That may help, there are some software that they could use to restore deleted files. As deleted files are just converted into smaller files, it could still be recovered. You just have to find a trusted phone repair shop because it is like letting them have access to your personal files from your phone.



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Kakashi2020
Yes, you can still recover it but it's not a one click sort of thing. It's s bit laborious and lengthy. There's a video in YouTube just search for it. It's a step by step guide on how to recover deleted material on Smartphones and Mobile Phones.



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Martinsx1
Thanks for making this suggestion. Actually, it never occurred to me that I should check out some YouTube channels on how to get the matter resolved.

I'm definitely going to look for informative videos on the social media site YouTube to learn exactly how to recover lost files in Android devices.



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Kakashi2020
Here's a link to a site with a free downloadable recovery software.

https://www.easeus.com/android-data-recovery-software/free-android-data-recovery.html



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vinaya
I don't know about iOS devices, however, on some Android phones there is inbuilt recycle bin. When you delete your photos, they will stay on the recycle bin for 30 days. I have not tried myself, however, you can also find apps that work like recycle bins on your smartphone.



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Judas2018
Even then it's risky though because the data doesn't remain forever. So with each passing day, you become less and less likely to recover what you deleted.



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vinaya
That's right. If you want to recover your deleted data, you will will have to do fast, other wise the data might be lost for every. There are also data recovery software that you can use to retrieve deleted photos from your phone.



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superlicca
Honestly, I don't have a smartphone and I also don't know if deleted photos can be recovered. But it is good to know that some members say that there is a way to recover them. I think you just need to do a research to gather more information about it or ask some experts.



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ajahcuizon
Most of my friends told me that deleted files in smartphones can be restored using a computer. Even though you have deleted it on your phone, it can still be accessed using a PC. Deleting files in smartphones does not mean that files are really deleted, they are just converted into smaller pieces of memory making it looks like it is already deleted. But the truth is, there are some space in the memory of your phone that they are stored.



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agbuyarashel
You should take advantage of the internet, maybe you could search it on youtube or you can ask some of your friends and don't ask for professional help yet ti save money but its risky so just be careful.



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mhingnhormz
In some android phone you can restored the deleted photos in recycle bin and also may work in pc. One of my friend restore my deleted files when i mistakenly click the delete all files, she just connect my phone in to her pc and do clicking i don't really understand what she's clicking but i don't care it that time because i am more worry in my files.



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Bravosi
Hey there!
I believe it's impossible to recover deleted pictures on a smartphone because that function simply doesn't exist (the way it does on a PC). PC itself has the option to do system recovery to return to a certain period of time, therefore you can only recover pictures there.



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Kakashi2020
Hey there, try this software it's free...https://www.easeus.com/android-data-recovery-software/free-android-data-recovery.html



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Kakashi2020
You can recover lost or deleted photos from your Smartphone via a data recovery software. It's quite easy. There's a lot of ways people can recover photos and files from their smartphones and it's been available for decades.



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koki12346
Maybe some software, but if that doesn't work you just can't. They are deleted permanently and a phone isn't like a PC, so you probably can never take them back.



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rose61
There are a lot of things we don't know about our gadgets.Your photos on your smartphone are saved in various apps.If you delete a photo from the gallery,the files app will still have the phhoto,same to the photos app.You can also save your photos google cloud.



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knnon
The iPhone has this feature already and it's had it for years now. My android phone, a Mi brand, has this as well and it's called a Trash Bin. I think it came with MIUI10 I'm not sure. But even before the update I can recover deleted photos from the Cloud.



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cjctm11
I am using an Oppo F7 and it has features like recently deleted like the one with Iphone where you can restore what you've been deleted but I don't have any idea about the recently deleted if you want to delete some files in it. I've never tried to delete some files inside of that folder and try to restore.



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gutzman
I have found a working app online but you have to pay for it. I think all the working apps are paid. The others were just troll. If someone could suggest a real working app which is absolutely free, I would be glad to know. Lately I had a problem where I accidentally deleted someone else's file and she doesn't have a back up.



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