Tech- How To Get Back Deleted Photos On Iphone & Android Phones

Many times we have accidentally deleted
photos from our phones, and no matter
how hard we try, we just can’t seem to get
them back.

Painful, right?
Now there are ways to undo such errors on
iPhones or Android phones. Apple has
made photo-recovery easy with iOS8, but
as for recovering deleted photos from
Android phones and memory cards, you’ll
need a third-party application to do that.
If you are using an iPhone or an Android
phone, these tips will help you recover
deleted photos from your devices.
However, you need to remember that once
you’ve deleted the pictures or other files, it
is safe to not use your device until the data
is recovered. This is because, when a
picture is deleted it is not erased
permanently, but rather it just opens up
space for more data.
Any operation on
your device then —including taking photos
— can generate new data and overwrite
that space, which would make lost data
unrecoverable.
For iPhone:

With the new iOS 8, Apple has made it very
easy to recover deleted photos. Follow
these steps:

Step 1: Access your Photos App and go into
your albums.

Step 2: Scroll to the bottom and tap on
“Recently Deleted.”

Step 3: In that photo folder you will find all
the photos you have deleted within the last
30 days. To recover you simply have to tap
the photo you want and press “Recover.”
You can also press “Delete” to get rid of
that photo permanently.
Note: If there’s a picture you were looking
for that is older than 30 days then you
would have to either restore your phone
using a saved backup on iTunes or used a
third-party photo recovery app.
For Android:

Different apps are now available in the
Android market these days to help you
recover your lost data. You can try out
different apps to see which one works well
for you. Here are some recommendations
of apps that are very fast and easy to use.
DiskDigger: This app can be downloaded
from the Google Play store and installed on
your phone. DiskDigger will scan your
whole device—including the SD memory
card—for deleted files.

Step 1: Access your Google Play store and
search for DiskDigger then download and
install the app.

Step 2: Open the DiskDigger app and tap
“Refresh List” to populate the screen. Once
the screen is populated select the “System”
folder.



Step 3: After you have selected the folder
tap “Scan Device” and the screen will be
populated with a list of most recent deleted
files. When you see the photo you want to
recover simply select it and hit save.
Step 4: The app will then ask you where
you want to save the photo and after you
pick its destination your photo should
appear back in your memory card or phone
system.

Kvisoft Data Recovery: If you still can’t
find your deleted photos by using an app
then you can also try desktop apps like
Kvisoft Data Recovery, which scans and
finds the lost files on your Android device.
But, if you want to retrieve the files you’ll
have to buy the upgrade which costs $70.

Step 1: You’ll have to enable USB debugging
on your phone, which you can do by going
into Settings >Applications >Development
>then checking “USB debugging.” While you
do that make sure that you have launched
the program on you PC.

Step 2: Once you have enabled USB
debugging and the program is running, go
ahead and connect your phone to your
computer using a USB cable and select
Multimedia/Mobile Device from the
program’s home screen.

Step 3: After clicking Multimedia/Mobile
Device look for your device by name or
capacity size and press start.

Step 4: The program will then scan the
entire Android device and compile a list of
files for you to search through. Once you
have selected the files you want to recover
you can click “Recovery” and assign where
you want those files to be saved.
Wondershare’s Dr. Fone for Android:
There is another alternative if you don’t
want to pay, you can use Wondershare’s Dr.
Fone for Android.

However, the desktop
program is only available for PC.

Step 1: Connect your device to your
computer and launch the program.

Step 2: You’ll then have to identify your
device and once it’s selected you can press
“press
“Start.”

Step 3: The program will then scan the
entire device for lost data and show it to
you in organized thumbnails.
Step 4: After you have selected which
photos you want to recover you can press
“Recover” and assign where you want to
save the photos.

Note: These programs should also scan for
files in SD memory cards if they are inside
the phones, but if you just want to scan the
SD card you may also want to try using
photo-recovery programs for memory
cards. There are several in the market, but
one that proves to work is PhotoRec by
CGSecurity—and it’s free. The program
works similar to Dr. Fone and Kvisoft. You
just have to launch the program, insert
your memory card and scan for files then
save them to your computer.