How to Recover Deleted Photos on Samsung Galaxy

In this article, wikiHow will show you how to recover deleted photos on Samsung Galaxy by restoring from Samsung Cloud or Google Photo backup, or using MobiSaver recovery middleware on computer. Deleted photos can only be restored from Samsung Cloud or Google Photos if you have backed them up before.

Table of Contents

Samsung Cloud Backup

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Open Settings on Android. The app has a white wheel icon on a purple background in the App Drawer. If you have backed up data stored on Samsung Cloud, you can restore it from your phone.

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Scroll down and select Cloud and accounts . This option is near the bottom of the page.

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Tap Samsung Cloud . This option is near the top of the page. ^{[1] X Research Source}

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Select Restore . This option is directly under the heading “BACK UP AND RESTORE”.

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Scroll down and select Photos . This is the operation to select photos as the only category to be restored, without affecting other data.

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Click RESTORE NOW . This option is near the bottom of the screen. Photos from the last cloud backup will be restored to your Samsung Galaxy phone.

This process may take several minutes.

Backup Google Photos

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Open Google Photos. The app has a multicolored wheel icon on a white background. If you back up photos taken from your device to Google Photos before you delete them, the photos are still here.

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Click on the photo you want to save. This is the operation to open the image.

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Select . This option is located in the upper right corner of the screen.

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Select Save to device . You will see a drop-down menu. This is the operation to save photos to Samsung Galaxy.

If the photo is already in the device, you won’t see the Save to device button here.

EaseUS MobiSaver

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Visit the EaseUS MobiSaver page. The site is http://www.easeus.com/android-data-recovery-software/free-android-data-recovery.html. If you recently deleted photos, you can most likely recover them with this tool.

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Click the FREE DOWNLOAD button. The blue button is in the center of the screen. This is the operation to download the file to the computer.

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Install MobiSaver. The implementation process on each type of computer will be different:

Windows – Double click on the downloaded installation file, follow the on-screen instructions, click Finish when MobiSaver has finished installing.
Mac – Open the setup file, drag MobiSaver to the Applications folder.

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Open MobiSaver if the program does not run automatically. Blue box icon with + sign on top.

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Connect Android to computer. Use the phone charger cable to connect the device to the computer.

Plug the larger rectangular connector into the USB port on your computer.

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Click on Start . This option is at the top of the page. MobiSaver will scan recently deleted data on Android, including images.

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Wait for the software to finish scanning. You can monitor the scanning process with the progress bar at the top of the MobiSaver software window.

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Click on the Gallery tab (photo gallery). This option is on the left side of the window.

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Select the photo you want to restore. You just need to check the dialog box next to the image scene.

You can check the dialog box at the top left of the recovered photos to select all photos.

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Click the Recover button. This button is in the bottom right corner of the window. This is the operation to open the window to choose the location to save the image.

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Select the Android device as the save location. You can see the Android device listed in the list of save locations in this window, you may have to scroll down to see it.

You can choose to restore photos to a folder on your computer. If you do, you can copy the photos to Android at any time.

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Click OK . The photo begins to be restored to the specified location.

Do not unplug the USB cable from your computer or Android device until the restore process is complete.

Advice

As a general rule, you should perform weekly data backups.

Warning

When backing up or restoring from the cloud, make sure you’re connected to Wi-Fi. If you use mobile data, you may have to pay more bills.

Steps

Samsung Cloud Backup

Backup Google Photos

EaseUS MobiSaver

Advice

Warning

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