At least 3 Ways to Recover Deleted Photos on Any Device
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To record your good memories, you can take some photos in your daily life using your phone or digital camera. These photos can be directly saved on the SD card of your device. You can also transfer them to your computer hard drive.

But you may lose these photos by mistake. For example, you format an SD card unexpectedly or you mistakenly delete all photos on your digital camera. You may also delete some pictures on your computer unintentionally. These things can happen anytime and anywhere. Here comes the question: how to recover deleted photos from any devices?

Nowadays, it is not difficult to get deleted pictures back. All you need to use is suitable photo recovery software. In this post, we will introduce different tools to retrieve deleted photos on different devices, including Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, SD cards, and digital cameras.

How to Recover Deleted Photos on Windows?

Solution 1: From Recycle Bin

When looking for the deleted photos, the first place you should check is Recycle Bin on your computer. Why? That's because your deleted files will be removed to that location unless you permanently deleted them or empty the Recycle Bin.

When you find the deleted photos in Recycle Bin, you can right-click on them and click Restore to put them back to their original locations.

Solution 2: From the Previous Backup File

If you have backed up your computer files using the Backup and Restore tool, you can choose to restore your deleted photos from the previous backup files.

Here is a guide:

  1. Make sure the drive that contains the backup file is connected to your computer.

  2. Use Windows search to search for control panel and access it.

  3. Go to Backup and Restore (Windows 7).

  4. Click Restore my files or Restore all users' files.

  5. Use Browse for files or Browse for folders to search for the photos you want to recover.

  6. Select the photos you want to recover and then click Restore to recover them.

Solution 3: Use Photo Recovery Software

If the above two ways don't work for you, the best way to recover deleted photos should be using a third-party Windows data recovery software. MiniTool Power Data Recovery, a free file recovery tool, is a good choice.

This program is designed and developed by MiniTool Software, which is a world-famous computer software developer and supplies solutions for millions of users from over 180 countries. This MiniTool data recovery software is one excellent representative.

It has four recovery modules: This PC, Removable Disk Drive, Hard Disk Drive, and CD/DVD Drive. With these modules, you can rescue files from internal/external hard drives, SD cards, memory cards, CD/DVD discs, etc.

This software has a trial edition and you can use it to scan the drive you want to retrieve deleted photos from and then see whether it can find your needed files. You can go to the MiniTool download center to get it and then use it to scan the drive.

1. Open MiniTool Power Data Recovery.

2. You will enter This PC by default. If you haven't repartitioned the drive after missing photos, you can just use this module to scan the target drive. However, if you have repartitioned the drive, you'd better use another module to scan the entire drive: if it is an internal or external hard drive, you can use the Hard Disk Drive module; if it is an SD card, memory card, or pen drive, you can use the Removable Disk Drive module.

At least 3 Ways to Recover Deleted Photos on Any Device

3. If you only want to recover photos/pictures/images, you can use Settings to only check Graphics & Picture.

At least 3 Ways to Recover Deleted Photos on Any Device

4. Select the target drive and click Scan to start scanning.

5. After scanning, you will see the scan results that are sorted by path. You can open each path to find your needed images.

However, if there are too many paths or files, it will be difficult to find your needed files. Then, you can try the Type, Show Lost Files, and Find features to quickly locate your needed pictures. You can even preview 70 types of files for confirmation.

At least 3 Ways to Recover Deleted Photos on Any Device

6. You can't use the trial edition of this software to recover the scanned files finally. But you can activate it to a full edition and then check your needed images to recover.

How to Recover Deleted Photos on Mac?

Solution 1: From Trash

Trash is a location where you can find the deleted files on your Mac. Thus, when you delete your photos by mistake, you can access Trash to see whether you can find these photos there. If yes, you can right-click the photo and click Put Back to restore it.

Solution 2: Use Time Machine

If you have backed up your Mac computer via Time Machine, you can also restore your deleted photos use Time Machine. 

1. Connect the Time Machine backup disk to your Mac.
2. Open the app that is holding the missing photos.
3. Click the clock icon that is on the top menu and then select Enter Time Machine.
4. Use the arrows to locate the backup you want to restore photos from.

At least 3 Ways to Recover Deleted Photos on Any Device

5. Select the photos you want to restore and then click Restore.

Solution 3: Use Mac Photo Recovery Software

If you can't find your images in Trash or there is no available backup file, you can use Mac photo recovery software to get deleted pictures back. Stella Photo Recovery for Mac is worth trying. This software has a trial edition that allows you to free scan your Mac drive, external hard drive, or SD card. You can also get it from the MiniTool Download center.

This guide shows you how to find deleted pictures using this software:

1. Open the software.
2. Click Next to continue.

At least 3 Ways to Recover Deleted Photos on Any Device

3. Select the target drive.

4. If you want to perform a deep scan, you can turn on the button for Deep Scan.

5. Click Scan to start scanning the drive.

At least 3 Ways to Recover Deleted Photos on Any Device

6. After scanning, you can go to see whether you can find the deleted pictures you want to recover.

At least 3 Ways to Recover Deleted Photos on Any Device

If you want to use this software to recover deleted photos, you can activate it to an advanced edition.

How to Recover Deleted Photos on Android?

Solution 1: From the Recently Deleted Folder

Where are the deleted pictures on an Android device? The first place you should check is the Recently Deleted folder. All deleted images will stay there for 30 days. If you find them there, you can select them and then click Restore to recover them.

Solution 2: From Cloud Backup Files

If you have backed your Android data to Google Drive, you can restore them from Google Photos. Of course, you may use other cloud backup services, such as OneDrive and Dropbox, to back up your Android photos. In a situation like this, you can restore your deleted pictures from these cloud backup files.

Solution 3: Use Android Data Recovery Software

An easy and effective method to get deleted Android photos back is to use a special Android photo recovery software. You should try MiniTool Mobile Recovery for Android, a free Android data recovery software.

You can use this software to recover files from your Android device and SD card as long as the deleted files are not overwritten by new data. If you want to directly recover data from Android internal storage, you need to root the Android device

When everything is prepared, you can connect your Android device or SD card to your computer and then select the corresponding module to scan the drive. When the scanning process ends, you can find your needed photos and recover them to a suitable location.

At least 3 Ways to Recover Deleted Photos on Any Device

How to Recover Deleted Photos on iOS?

Solution 1: From the Recently Deleted Folder

There is also a Recently Deleted folder on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. If you find your photos are missing, you can go to that folder to check whether they are there. If yes, you can select them to directly restore them.

Solution 2: From the iTunes/iCloud Backup Files

If you have backed up your iOS data using iTunes or iCloud, you can restore files from the previous iTunes or iCloud backup file. But these two methods will replace all your current files on the device. You can use these two methods to restore files if you accidentally restore the device to factory settings. But if you only want to restore deleted photos, this method is not a good choice.

Solution 3: Use iOS Data Recovery Software

MiniTool Mobile Recovery for iOS, a free iPhone data recovery software, is a good choice to only retrieve your deleted photos. You can use this software to recover data from the iOS device, iTunes backup, and iCloud backup.

You can use this software to customize the files you want to recover. But due to the limitation of iOS, you are not allowed to recover deleted photos from the device directly. Alternatively, you can choose to restore them from your previous iTunes and iCloud backup file.

Depending on your actual situation, you can select Recover from iTunes Backup or Recover from iCloud Backup File, and then follow the guide to get deleted pictures back.

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How to Recover Deleted Photos on Digital Cameras?

If you are a photographer, you may be interested in how to find deleted pictures on digital cameras. Usually, the photos that are taken by a digital camera are saved an SD card. Thus, you will need to use a dedicated photo recovery software to rescue data from your SD card.

There are two choices:

  • If you are using a Windows computer, you can use MiniTool Power Data Recovery to rescue your deleted photos.

  • If you are using a Mac computer, you can use Stellar Data Recovery for Mac to get your lost and deleted images back.

Even your SD card is corrupted, you can also use these two programs to get your photos back.

These are the 5 ways to recover deleted photos on any device. We hope these solutions can help you solve your issues.

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