If you have an Android device and want to recover deleted photos, you will need to use a rooting method and a computer. However, if you don’t want to root your device or if rooting is not your thing, there are other ways to recover deleted photos from Android without using a computer or rooting. Here are three methods:
- Recover Deleted Photos from Photos app on Android If you have the Photos app installed on your Android device, you can use it to recover deleted photos. To do this, open the Photos app and click on the three lines in the top left corner of the main screen. This will show you a list of all of your photos. Scroll down and select one of the photos that you want to recover. Once selected, click on the Recover button in the bottom left corner of the main screen. The Photos app will start recovering your photo data and will take about 10 minutes to finish. Once it’s done, select another photo from the list and press OK to confirm that you want to continue recovering data. If all goes well, you should now see a message in the top right corner of the main screen saying that recovery was successful. If not, please check back later as we may have made some changes to how this process works since our original article was written.
- Recover Deleted Photos from Google Drive If you’re using Google Drive as your primary storage for yourAndroid devices, then recovery can be done just like withPhotos app above - open Google Drive and select one of your deleted photos from earlier in this guide (you’ll need at least 4GB of free space for this). Click on Restore Data button in bottom left corner of main screen and follow prompts; once complete recovery should start automatically (10-15 minutes). If everything goes well - after several minutes there should be an email notification telling you that restore was successful! If not - please check back later as we may have made some changes to how