How to recover deleted videos from mobile

You went to a great concert over the weekend and recorded a bunch of videos with your smartphone. Very happy, you then showed the videos you made to your friends, but in doing so you deleted some by mistake. Given the circumstances, you then rushed to the web in search of some solution to remedy the thing and ended up here, on my site, hoping to receive useful tips about it.

How do you say? The situation is precisely this and would you like to understand if I can actually give you a hand or not to recover deleted videos from your mobile? Of course yes, do not worry! In fact, if you allow me a few minutes of your precious time, I can illustrate the operation of some tools that could prove to be of great help. These are mobile apps and computer software that do not require special technical skills to be used, in short, they are quite simple and intuitive even for those who – a bit like you – do not really consider themselves a “geek”.

Before getting to the heart of the matter, however, it is necessary to make a necessary premise: if the portion of memory on which the videos were stored has not yet been occupied by other data, then recovery should actually be feasible; otherwise, everything becomes more complicated and there may not be the possibility to restore the videos (except in partial / damaged form). In any case, as they say, trying doesn’t hurt. Happy reading and good luck!

Index

• How to recover deleted videos from mobile: Android
  • Google Photos / Gallery
  • DiskDigger
  • Undeleter Recover Files & Data
• How to recover deleted videos from mobile: iPhone
  • Photo
  • EaseUS MobiSaver
• How to recover deleted videos from mobile via computer
  • PhotoRec (Windows / macOS / Linux)
  • Other solutions to recover deleted videos from mobile

How to recover deleted videos from mobile: Android

If you own an Android smartphone and are interested in understanding how to recover deleted videos from your mobile , the instructions you must follow are those listed below.

Google Photos / Gallery

If you need to recover deleted videos from mobile and if on your Android device you use Google Photos to manage photos and videos, I highly recommend that you try to take a look at the app’s trash and try to see if the movies of your interest they are there.

By default, in fact, Google Photos moves photos and videos that are deleted to a temporary folder (the trash) where they are kept for 60 days before being permanently deleted. So, if you access the recycle bin before the “actual” deletion of the contents of your interest, you have the possibility to restore your videos without having to resort to special tools.

That said, to try to recover the videos you have removed from your mobile phone as I have just indicated, proceed as follows: access the home screen and / or the Android drawer, start the Google Photos app by selecting the relative icon ( the one with the colored pinwheel ) and tap on the Collection item located at the bottom right of the proposed screen.

Then, select the Trash item present in the new screen displayed and if among the displayed items there are also the deleted videos of your interest, to recover them, tap on the Select item located at the top right, select the videos of your interest, touch the ‘ Reset option at the bottom and confirm your intentions by pressing the word Reset again in the menu that opens.

Keep in mind that the instructions I have given you just now, can be replicated with all the main Gallery apps for Android, so you can also use them to recover deleted videos on Samsung mobile , to recover deleted videos on HUAWEI mobile phone and on any other brand of smartphone on which also has a proprietary application for managing photos and videos.

DiskDigger

Now let’s move on to the specific tools for recovering deleted data on Android and more precisely to DiskDigger . It is an app that allows you to recover photos and videos that have been removed from smartphones, acting in a simple and effective way.

It is available in a free basic version that allows you to recover only MP4 videos and in a paid version (which costs 3.37 euros) that allows you to intervene on all other file formats as well. Furthermore, it must be taken into account that to work correctly it needs the root (without the latter the app is able to access only limited portions of the device’s memory and therefore can find fewer files).

To download and install the app on your device, access the relevant section of the Play Store and press the Install button (if you are using a device on which Google services are missing, you can download the app from alternative stores ). Then, start the app by selecting its icon that has been added to the home screen and / or drawer.

Now that you see the DiskDigger screen, grant the application the required permissions , then select the drive from which you want to recover deleted videos, check the box next to MP4 and press the OK button to start searching for files to recover.

Once the scan is complete, select the thumbnails of the found videos you want to recover, tap the Recover button located at the bottom and decide whether to save the videos in a folder on the phone, on one of the supported cloud storage services or on an FTP server, by selecting respectively the folder icon , the cloud icon or the arrow icon .

Undeleter Recover Files & Data

Another great tool that you can consider turning to to recover deleted videos from mobile is Undeleter . This app also allows you to recover photos, videos and various other types of files that have been removed from your device, all quite easily.

It’s free, but to save the files that are recovered, you have to proceed with in-app purchases (paying 3.19 euros). Note that in this case too, the root is required (without it, only the scan of the app cache is allowed).

To use Undeleter, download the app from the relevant section of the Play Store (or from alternative stores , if you are using a device on which there are no Google services), then start it by selecting the icon that has just been added to the home screen and / or in the drawer.

Now that you see the main screen of the app, grant it the required permissions , specify the location where you want to search for the deleted videos you want to recover and indicate the types of files to restore, then tap the Scan button .

Once the analysis process is complete, the videos that can be recovered will be shown to you in the form of thumbnails and you can retrieve those of your interest by touching the relative previews , pressing the button with the three dots vertically at the top right, choosing the Save item the file from the menu that opens and indicating the output location .

How to recover deleted videos from mobile: iPhone

Now, let’s move on to iPhone and find out how to recover deleted videos from mobile phone in this case. Below, therefore, you will find the solutions useful for the purpose you can rely on.

Photo

The iOS Photos app is the one that allows you to manage the photo and video gallery on the iPhone. Perhaps not everyone knows, but the application in question also includes a recycle bin in which photos and videos that have been recently deleted are placed, so that if necessary the contents of interest can be recovered.

By peeking into the trash, you may then find the videos you want to recover and you may be able to restore them. However, keep in mind that the removed items are kept in the Photos trash for 30 days , after which their removal takes place automatically and, to keep in mind, irreversible.

So, to try to recover deleted videos from your mobile phone via Photos, start the app in question by selecting the relevant icon (the one with the colored flower ) that you find on the home screen and / or in the iOS app Library and, once displayed the app screen, access the Album section by selecting the appropriate item located at the bottom.

Select, therefore, the words Recently deleted that you find in the Other section at the bottom of the screen and, if among the available contents there are also the videos you want to recover, tap the Select button at the top right, put a check mark on the items of your interest and proceed with the recovery of the same by touching the Retrieve item located at the bottom and press the Recover [number] video button .

EaseUS MobiSaver

If the Photo trash does not contain the deleted videos from your “iPhone by” that you want to recover, I am sorry to inform you that for iOS there are no data recovery apps through which you can intervene directly from the device. By virtue of this, I highly recommend that you give EaseUS MobiSaver Free a try .

It is a computer software that enables data recovery from iPhone. It is available for Windows (on which it requires iTunes to be installed to work ) and macOS and allows you to recover deleted data from the phone memory or from backups (both locally and on iCloud). You can use it for free, but it allows you to save one video at a time or five contacts at a time. To recover more data at the same time, you must necessarily purchase EaseUS MobiSaver Pro, which is paid (costs 64.95 euros).

To download EaseUS MobiSaver, connect to the program’s website and click on the Free Download button marked with the logo of the operating system you are using.

At the end of the download, if you are using Windows , open the .exe file obtained , click on the Yes button in the window you see appear on the desktop, set the Italian from the menu for the choice of language and click on the OK button . Then, click on the Next button , select the item I accept the terms of the license agreement and click on the Next button again (for two more times). Then deselect the items relating to the installation of any additional tools and complete the setup by pressing the Next , Install and Finish buttons.

If, on the other hand, you are using macOS , open the .dmg package obtained and drag the EaseUS MobiSaver icon into the Mac Applications folder , then right-click on it and press the Open item twice consecutively, in order to overcome the restrictions applied from macOS towards non-certified developers (an operation that must be performed only at the first start).

Now that you see the program window on the screen, connect the iPhone to the computer using its charging cable, click on the Recover from iOS device button , select the device name in the new screen that appears and press the Scan button to start it. analyses.

Then wait for the scan to finish, then use the left sidebar to navigate through the recovered data. I suggest you add a check mark on the box next to the Video and Video App item in the Photo / Video menu , to limit the display of the data found to the videos. After identifying the videos of your interest, select them and press the Recover button to save them on your computer.

If you can’t find the videos you are interested in in the iPhone memory, go back to the EaseUS MobiSaver home screen and try to scan your iTunes backups , choosing the option to check the backups saved locally or the option to check i saved online backup .

How to recover deleted videos from mobile via computer

You can try to recover deleted videos from your mobile phone also by acting as a computer , by connecting the device from which you intend to extract the files (or the SD card possibly used on the smartphone, if it is not set as main memory) and using the appropriate software when recovering deleted files. Find all the details of the case right below.

PhotoRec (Windows / macOS / Linux)

If your smartphone is equipped with expandable memory and therefore if the videos you would like to recover were on the SD card possibly placed in the device, you can insert the SD card into the computer and try to restore the files deleted using PhotoRec .

It is a free and open source program that allows you to recover deleted data from various drives and devices. It is compatible with Windows, macOS and Linux and is also very simple to use. Note, however, that it has a graphical interface only on Windows, while on the other OS it must be used from the command line. Furthermore, I would like to point out that the program is supplied in tandem with TestDisk , another free tool that allows you to recover lost partitions and restore disks that are no longer booting (at this juncture, however, it is not useful to you).

To download the program on your PC, connect to its website and click on the link for the operating system you are using that you find in the section TestDisk & PhotoRec xx (month day, year), Data Recovery .

When the download is complete, if you are using Windows , extract the ZIP archive obtained in a folder of your choice and start the file contained within it. In the window that at this point you see appear on the screen, click on the Yes button and, once the main PhotoRec screen is displayed, expand the drop-down menu located at the top, select the drive where your microSD resides and click on the partition primary of the card (it should be the one named FAT32 , FAT16 or exFAT ).qphotorec_win.exe

Then, put a check next to the items FAT / NTFS / HFS + / ReiferFS and Free , click on the Browse button and choose the folder in which to save the videos that PhotoRec will “extrapolate” from your memory card. Once this is done, press the File formats button , choose to recover the video files by selecting the relevant type and press the OK button .

Finally, click on the Search button and wait patiently for the program to do its job. At the end of the procedure, you will find the videos recovered by PhotoRec in the folder indicated above. It was simple, wasn’t it?

If you are using PhotoRec on macOS , instead, open the archive downloaded on your computer, extract the contents in a folder of your choice and start the photorec file that is inside it, by right clicking on its icon and selecting the item Open from the menu that appears.tar.bz2

After that, the Terminal window will open . Then use the right arrow on the keyboard to select the Sudo option , press the Enter key and enter the Mac administration password .

At this point, select the drive relating to the microSD card of your smartphone, indicate the partition on which to act, choose the file system with which this is formatted and choose whether to scan only the space marked as free or whether to check in the whole unit in depth .

In conclusion, indicate the folder where you want to save the recovered contents of the memory card, press the C key on the keyboard to confirm your willingness to start the analysis and wait for the data recovery process to be completed.

If you have more practicality in terms of computers and smartphones, I point out that you can use PhotoRec to recover videos even from mobile devices without expandable memory. To do this, all you have to do is create an image of the device’s internal memory , convert it to VHD format and process it in PhotoRec. For more details on this, you can follow the English language tutorial on the XDA website.

Other solutions to recover deleted videos from mobile

There are also other computer-functional solutions that you can consider using to recover the videos you have removed from your smartphone. You can find them listed below.

• Wondershare dr.fone( Windows / macOS ) – is a popular data recovery software, perfectly compatible with Android and iPhone and capable of recovering videos, photos, audio files, messages, contacts etc. It is available for both Windows and macOS and on Microsoft operating systems it requires the presence of iTunes to work. It is free, but it only allows you to view the recoverable data from the device memory, while to proceed with the recovery you need to buy the paid version (which has prices starting from 59.99 euros). For more information, I refer you to reading my guides on how to recover deleted Android photos and how to recover deleted photos on iPhone (the directions are also valid for videos).
• Disk Drill( Windows / macOS ) – program that works on both Windows and Mac that allows you to recover deleted data from your computer hard drive, but also from smartphones that are connected to it, both Android and iPhone, as well as from various other units of archiving. It’s free, but it only restores 500MB of data. To remove this limitation, it is necessary to purchase its Pro version (at a cost of 94.00 euros). I told you about it in detail in my guide .
• Recuva( Windows ) – it is a program for Microsoft operating systems only, which can be used to recover videos and other data removed from the external memory of mobile phones, but also from the computer hard disk, pendrive and other media. It is free, but possibly a paid variant is available (costs € 19.95) that unlocks additional functions. For further information, read my guide specifically dedicated to the program .