Has it ever happened to you that you accidentally deleted a photo or video from Google Photos and you want to get it back, but you don’t know how to do it? It is quite possible that most of our readers have gone through the terrible situation of unintentionally deleting a photo or video in Google Photos, resigned to the fact that they are lost forever, however, it is important for you to know that it is possible to recover them easily and in a few steps.
So if you want to know what you have to do to recover photos or videos that you accidentally deleted in Google Photos, we recommend that you continue reading this article, because here we will tell you the step to follow, as well as the irreversible cases.
Step by step to recover deleted photos in Google Photos
If you accidentally deleted a photo or video, don’t worry, there is a very simple way to get it back, and to achieve that you just have to do the following:
- Open the Google Photos app on your phone, tablet, or computer.
- Once in the application, go to the “Library” tab.
- When you are there, you will notice two options appear at the top, so what you need to do is select the one that says Trash.
- Once you open it, you will realize that all the photos that you have deleted recently will appear in this section, so what you have to do is press and hold on the photo and / or video that you want to recover and touch the option that says “Restore”, in this way the photo or video will be back to: the phone’s gallery app, the Google Photos library and all the albums it was in.
If, when performing this action, you realize that the photo and/or video you want to recover is not in the trash, it is possible that the item has been permanently deleted and you cannot recover it. As Google tells us, you won’t be able to restore an item if:
- I moved it to the trash over 60 days ago.
- I moved it to the trash, which I then emptied.
- I moved it to the trash more than 30 days ago from a device with Android 11 or later, and it hasn’t been backed up.
- I permanently deleted it from the trash.
- You have permanently deleted it from the Gallery app on your device, without creating a backup first in Google Photos.
In any of these cases, keep in mind that the photo and/or video you want to recover is permanently deleted, and therefore there is no possibility to recover them. So, the best thing you can do to avoid going through this situation is to be very careful when deleting items, and if you notice that you have made a mistake, it is imperative that you restore the image as soon as possible.
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