But if you want personal advice from me, let me tell you that there are some devious tools and programs that can also be used in order to retrieve these photos again, very briefly yes, by using deleted photo recovery programs you can sometimes (even if rarely) Of being able to get your personal photos back and herein lies the risk, so now you're a little worried if you want to sell your old Android phone in order to buy a new one, right? You do not need to worry at all, in this article we will take you on a quick tour through which we will show you how you can delete all the photos and data of your Android phone from the root so that it is impossible for anyone to recover them again in any way.
Top 5 ways to permanently delete photos from your phone
1. Delete photos using file manager
Let me be frank with you and tell you from the beginning that the worst way to delete any images or data is from within the applications, in fact when you delete the data from within the applications there remains an additional copy of this data in the trash or through the cloud services of the application service Or you could even stay in a folder called “Archive” and I think you're already aware of all of that. If we try to talk about the Google Photos application, for example, we will find that the Google Photos application keeps a backup copy of data, whether it is photos, videos, documents and files for 60 days, even after you delete them yourself from within the application But if you want to delete it completely from within the Google Photos application, you must delete it from the trash inside the application. So if you want to delete files properly, you should rely on file manager apps or what we sometimes call file explorer apps and let me tell you the good news that there are many totally free file manager and explorer apps on Android even if they contain some ads. The steps are very easy, download any file manager or File Explorer application and from within the application find the path of the data that you want to delete irreversibly and select it and then click on the basket button in order to erase it from the phone memory, sometimes the application may not contain Button “Trash” and there's no problem with it, just click on the three horizontal dots icon from the top corner and select Clear and agree to confirm and that's it.
2. Delete photos using File Shredder app
File Shredder is an app or tool that is apt and its only main purpose is to shred the original data sources so they can't be recovered again. This tool is very ideal if you don't have a new Android phone that comes with data encryption by default. If your Android phone is running With Android 6 or earlier, you must necessarily rely on this application because this tool will delete the free memory spaces that may still hold some of the source information of your data. Also, the good news is that there are a lot of free file shredder apps and tools for Android, as we mentioned to you a while ago, including file shredder, but there is also Shreddit and Data Eraser, and you are free to rely on what you prefer among them, if you are wondering about the idea of this work The tools are by performing a random process of writing a set of random data and characters over the old data. In this way, if someone tries to retrieve this data, he will only be able to retrieve these random characters because they are the last that were written to the phone’s memory, and whenever you try to rely on this tool more than Once is better because in this way it is impossible to recover the original data again.
The whole idea is to give these applications the necessary permissions and powers to access your data and start relying on any of them for several times in a row to make sure that it is difficult to retrieve the original data and we will try to show you now with steps how to use the Data Eraser tool: We preferred to rely on Data Eraser because it works very efficiently and is free from annoying ads and you will surely prefer to rely on it like us:
- Click on the FreeSpace tab, but do not click on Complete Erase, just click on the internal memory and the application will start calculating the free space required for it to erase.
- Click Continue and choose a particular shredding algorithm and note that there are some methods that have to wait a long period of time for them to finish completely.
- Confirm to continue and the application will start writing to the free space with random data to erase the original data so that it cannot be recovered again.
- Try not to use your phone during the process because this method consumes the phone's resources, especially the processor and storage memory. If you have to use the phone, you will notice that it is a little slow until the whole process is completed.
3. Delete photos using computer
If you ask me about my personal opinion, I will tell you that one of the best ways to delete files or photos that I personally prefer is by connecting the Android phone to the computer and start searching for the files that I want to delete and erase very easily. This method is much better than relying on applications for managing and exploring files because it The easiest and fastest. All you have to do is connect your Android phone to the computer and agree to USB Debugging and choose to open files via computer and now from the computer open a folder or the phone’s partition itself and now browse for the files and search for the path of the files you want to delete from the computer using the system Windows only. Once you reach any file you want to permanently delete, right-click and choose Delete from the drop-down menu, then agree to confirm the deletion by clicking Yes. You want a safe and robust method in order to delete your data from the root and so that it is difficult to recover it again.
4. Scan photos from the phone's external MicroSD memory
What do you do if the photos or data you want to delete are on the external memory card and not on the internal storage cards? In this case, there are two ways to deal with this situation: The first method is through the SD card itself by going to Settings, then Storage, then the SD Card, and from there find the file path, locate it, and then delete it. But if you want to erase the data from its roots so that it will be difficult to recover it again from the external phone memory, it is better that you reformat the card again, and this is the only safe way to maintain the security and confidentiality of your important data with high efficiency. As for the method of formatting the card, it is Very simple but note that this method will take care of completely deleting all the data on the external memory card. To format the SD Card, click on the three horizontal dots in the upper-right corner of the window and choose Format, then click Erase & Format, then agree by clicking Yes and the formatting process will immediately take place. There are other ways to format the external SD card if you see that the previous method is not clear or difficult, which is through the computer, as we mentioned in paragraph No. 3 Connect the phone to the computer or install the SD card in the computer if the computer has a port SD Card and then you can browse the contents of the computer card from the Windows file explorer and remove the data you want to remove in a simple way. If you want another way, it is through data shredding programs such as the free Data Eraser that we talked about in the first paragraph. It cleans and erases data from its root from the external memory by overwriting it with random data also to ensure that files and personal data are not recovered again.
5. Delete photos by factory resetting the phone
If you want a more effective method, you have no choice but the method known as “nuclear solution” and this is the sure solution to ensure that all phone data is deleted from the root and ensure that it is not recovered again but despite all that, it is possible that some hackers can recover some data If they rely on data recovery software, then it may be better to rely on the data shredder software and tools that we talked about in the previous paragraphs. Just try to make sure that your phone is encrypted after you reformat the phone and factory reset it so that no one can recover the data again, go to Settings then Security and make sure that your phone is encrypted and then go to Settings again Settings then System then Options Advanced Options and click Factory Reset option and that's it. As we mentioned to you a while ago, after factory resetting the phone, it is best to use the Data Eraser tool to shred any empty space from the previous data and overwrite it so that it cannot be recovered again. Source