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By Selena KomezUpdated on April 08, 2020


[Summary]: Accidentally deleted photos on Galaxy S9? The tutorial will teach how to recover lost or deleted photos, videos from Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+ with Android Data Recovery.

I lost my photos from the new Galaxy S9 phone by my litter son accidental deletion. I heard that the deleted photos are not permanently gone actually. Is it possible to check the lost photos and restore it without backup? I need a simple solution. Any ideas are welcomed.

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There could be several causes for the loss or deletion of data from Samsung phone. Some of them are mentioned here: accidental deletion, doing factory reset, formatting SD card, black screen/forgotten password/screen broken, virus intrusion, rooting device, ROM flashing, etc,.

If you recent deleted photos on Samsung phone, you can check recently deleted photos from Google Photos app – recycle bin, let’s follow the step-by-step guide on how to restore recently deleted photos from the recycle bin.

Way 1: Recover Deleted Photos from Google Photos app

If you have backup your photos from Samsung Galaxy S9 to the Google Photos app, then you don’t worry about your photos are lost or deleted, you can quickly restore them from the recycle bin of Google Photo app, you can easily the get deleted photos back within 60 days. Let’s learn how to restore Samsung lost or deleted photos from Google Photos app:

Step 1. Open the Google Photos app on your Samsung Galaxy S9 or S9+ smart phone.
Step 2. Tap “Trash” from the top-left menu, all the deleted pictures will be appear and you can see the detail information.
Step 3. Select the photos you want to get back, then tap “Restore” to restore deleted photos from Google Photos app’s recycle bin, then the deleted photos restored to the Gallery on Samsung Galaxy S9.

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Note: If you delete photos for more than 60 days, this method will not work for you.

If I never synced photos to the Google Photos app, or those photos been deleted more that 60 days, it possible to check and retrieve deleted pictures, photos from Samsung Galaxy S9? Well, the answer is “Yes“, you still have the chance to check and recover lost/deleted files from Samsung Android if you get some help of a reliable data recovery, until and unless the existent data does not get overwritten.

Way 2: Recover Deleted Photos from Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+ by Android Data Recovery

U.Fone Android Data Recovery, which is a suitable and perfect Samsung S9/S9+ Data Recovery software. It is designed to recover deleted data from Samsung Android device. With the help of this program, you could easily check the recently deleted photos on Samsung Galaxy S9/S9 +, recover the deleted photos from it selectively. Besides to photos, it enables you to restore several kinds of Android data, including videos, contacts, text messages, call logs, documents, WhatsApp messages, and more. Supports recover data lost due to any circumstances. Compatible with all Samsung models and Android models, for instance, Samsung Galaxy S10/S9/S8/S7/S6/S5, Galaxy Note 9/8/5/4, etc,.

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Tips to Improve the success rate of data recovery

Before recovering files from your Android phone, the following important tips you must pay attention to in order to improve the success rate of recovering lost or deleted files.

1. Stop taking photos or videos by your phone, avoiding new data overwriting old data, which will reduce the success rate of data recovery
2. Don’t add any new data to the phone or the Micro SD card until the data is restored.
3. Don’t format the SD card before you get back any files from your memory card.
4. Don’t transfer files from other device to the phone.
5. Using a professional Android data recovery or SD card data recovery to recover photos, videos and other files as soon as possible.

Photos Recovery on Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+ (Deleted More that 60 days)

To begin with, you should run U.Fone Android Data Recovery on the computer. There are three modes for selection: Android Data Recovery, Android Data Backup & Restore, Broken Android Data Extraction. Click “Android Data Recovery” option to begin.

run U.Fone Android Data Recovery

Step 1. Connect Samsung Phone to Computer
Connect your Samsung Galaxy S9 to computer with a USB cable, enable the USB debugging on your phone.

connect Samsung to the computer

In oder to allow our Android data recovery software analyze your Samsung Galaxy S9, please make sure that you have enabled USB debugging on your Samsung Galaxy S9 phone in connection. If you have done it, skip this step. If not, follow the on-screen guide or visit the tutorial on how to enable USB Debugging Mode on Android.

enable USB debugging on Samsung

Step 2. Select Photo File to Scan from Samsung
When your phone is connection with computer, you can see all the data types that can be restored, including gallery, text messages, contacts, etc,. For photos recovery, click “Gallery”. Then click “Next”.

select gallery file to recover from Galaxy S9

Step 3. Allow Scan the Samsung Galaxy S9
When the following window shows up, there might be a superuser authorization appearing on your Samsung phone for allow scanning the device. If you get it, click “Allow” to go on.

superuser authorization

Step 4. Advanced Root Android for Deep Scanning(Option)
If you want to deep scan your Samsung Galaxy S9 to recover more lost data, the Android Data Recovery software performs a deep scan on Android device and searches for deleted contacts, text messages, call logs, photos, videos, media files, documents, WhatsApp messages, App data and other file types. After that you can preview the found files in detail and selectively recover what you want.

To do so, click the Advanced Root button at the bottom and this will take you to install the KingoRoot to root your Samsung device.

root Samsung Galaxy S9

When you’re rooted, the software will initiate a deep scan over the data on your handset. You can see the rundown on how much time the scan will take. The whole process may need 15-20 minutes to be finished.

Tips: After recovering data from your Android device, your mobile phone will return to its original state, and the whole process will not damage your mobile phone.
More information, please visit: how to safely root and unroot an Android device.

Step 5. Check and Recover Recently Deleted Photos
Once the scan is end, all the recently deleted data will be list, you could check and preview the data one by one under “Gallery” file. Finally, clicking “Recover” to save all the selected photos on the computer.

recover deleted photos on Samsung Galaxy S9

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Video Guide on How to Recover Deleted Photos from Android Phone

Way 3: Recover Deleted Photos, Videos from Samsung SD Card

If your photos, videos, audios and other files stored in the SD card of your Samsung Galaxy S9 before, once the SD card got formatted, physical damage or corrupt, got virus or trojan attacks, the Android system crashed, the phone gets broken screen or black screen of death, to recover lost and deleted pictures from Samsung SD card, you can turn to U.Fone Data Recovery, which can be the other choice helps you recover data from Samsung SD card.

U.Fone Data Recovery – a powerful Samsung SD card data recovery tool helps to recover deleted or lost photos, videos, music and other files from Micro SD memory card. It can retrieve detect picture files in .jpg, .png, .gif, .bmp, .webp, .tiff format and more. This data recovery software supports all popular brands of SD card, including SanDisk, Samsung, Kingston, PNY, Lexar, Transcend, PQI and more. Here are main features about this software:

– Retrieve files from Samsung SD card in easily, effectively, safely and completely.
– Recover photos from Android phone’s SD card lost due to accidental deletion, formatted SD card, damaged or corrupted, or virus attacks.
– Support recover pictures, images, photos, videos, music, and office document from Samsung phone’s SD card.
– Recover deleted and lost photos from internal hard drive or external data storage like SD/memory card, digital camera, etc.
– Supported OS: Windows 10/8/7/XP/Vista, Mac OS 10.13, macOS 10.12, OS X 10.11, 10.10, 10.9, 10.8, 10.7, 10.6.

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Step-by-Step Guide to Deleted Recover Photos, Videos and Files from Samsung SD Card

The next tutorial we will focus on how to recover photos from Samsung SD card on Windows computer, if you are a Mac user, you can follow the same steps to recover photo files from Samsung SD card on Mac. Firstly of all, please removed your Samsung SD card from the Samsung phone and insert the SD card to the computer.

Step 1. Run U.Fone SD Card Data Recovery
Firstly, please free download and launch the SD Card Data Recovery software on your computer, to recover deleted photos from SD card of your Samsung Galaxy S9, please select “External Devices Recovery” mode to start.

Select Samsung SD Card Data Recovery Mode

Step 2. Insert Samsung SD Card to Computer
Now insert your Samsung phone’s SD card to the computer and click “Next”. Once your SD card is connected, select it under “External removable device” and click “Start” to begin scanning.

Connect Samsung SD Card

Step 3. Scan Deleted Photos from Samsung SD Card
The SD Card Recovery will start a quick scan to search your lost data. If you cannot find your lost data, you can start a deep scan again with “All-Around Recovery” mode.

Scan SD Card

Step 4. Preview and Retrieve Deleted/Lost Photos from Samsung SD Card
After the scan completed, all recoverable files will be listed on the left by file types. You can preview the specific files and click “Recover” to recover deleted photos from Samsung SD card and save the retrieved files onto the computer.

Scan SD Card

Free download the Data Recovery and try to recover deleted photos, videos, audios from SD card of your Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+ smartphone.

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Well done, you have get backup the deleted photos from Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+ directly or retrieved from phone’s SD card, you can find them on the target folder, if you want to import the retrieved files from computer to Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+ or other devices for view, you can use this iOS & Android Manager tool to transfer photos, videos, music from computer to devices.
Learn this guide: Transfer Files to Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+

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By Selena KomezUpdated on April 08, 2020


[Summary]: Want to recover deleted photos from Samsung S9? Learn how to quickly recover lost or deleted photos from Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+ and other devices with these free Samsung photo recovery tools.

I deleted every photos i have ever taken on my Samsung galaxy s9, I have been told these can be recovered up to 30 days afterwards, can anyone help? It would be much appreciated if i could get these pics back as a lot of sentiment is involved. Thank you in advance.” – One of Samsung users asked on Samsung community

Also read:

How to recover lost data on Samsung S9/S9+

How to Backup and Restore Samsung Galaxy S9/S10

Samsung Galaxy S series which announced by Samsung stand out among various smart phones. Being warmly welcomed by numerous users around the world, it can be said the most popular Android smart phone. With its excellent smartphone camera sensor, you can shoot crisp and sharp photos anywhere and anytime. It sounds wonderful and appealing. However, losing data on Samsung Galaxy is an unavoidable disaster that will occur in our daily life, especially the photos. Photos on Samsung Galaxy S9 phone could be lost due to many unexpected incidents: Accidental or mistakenly deletion, restoring factory settings, damaged or broken phone, phone screen broken, flashing ROM, rooting failure and stuck in Samsung logo screen, OS upgrade failure and device cannot power on, etc.

Once this happens, just take it easy,we will teach you two effective methods to recover deleted photos from Galaxy S9/S9+ with/without Google Account backups,as the Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+ Photo Recovery software will help you bring the Samsung Galaxy S9 deleted files back quickly.

Note: Many users like taking pictures by Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+,once you deleted photos and videos from your Samsung Galaxy phone by careless,and if you want to recover the deleted or lost photos on Galaxy S9.Please don’t take any new photo, videos or import files to your phone,make sure that you didn’t do any update, otherwise, the new file will overwrite the old data,it will greatly increases the difficulty of Samsung S9 data recovery,what you must to do is using a professional Android data recovery software to scan and retireve deleted photos, videos files from Galaxy S9, as soon as possible. Now, let’s go through the step-by-step guide:

Part 1: Recover Deleted Photos and Videos from Galaxy S9/S9+ via Android Photo Recovery

Fortunately, Android Photo Recovery can be a good choice to recover deleted photos from Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+. Not only photos, but also other types of data could be restored by this software with a few simple steps. The recoverable data including photos, contacts, text messages, call history, WhatsApp messages, videos, audio, documents, etc. Just connect your Samsung Galaxy S9 or it’s SD card to the computer, then use the Android data recovery to scan and recover the deleted photos directly.

More Features:

  • Recover photos, video, audios, App pictures & videos from/on Samsung phones and tablets.
  • Recover messages, contacts, call history and more text contents from Samsung Galaxy.
  • Recover photos and video lost due to deleting, restoring factory settings, flashing ROM, rooting, etc., from SD cards inside Samsung phone.
  • Preview & selectively recover pictures, text messages, contacts and call logs before recovery.
  • Recover data from broken/damaged Samsung Galaxy phone.
  • Fix a bricked, frozen, crashed, black-screen or screen-locked Android system to normal without data loss.
  • Support multiple Android phones and tablets, like Samsung Galaxy, Huawei Mate/P, HTC One, LG, Motorola, Google Pixel, Xiaomi, OnePlus, Tecno, Redmi, Oppo and so forth.
  • Only read and restore the data, no personal info leaking.
  • Recover deleted data from an root or no rooted Android devices.

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Supported Samsung Phone: Galaxy S20/S10/S9/S8/S7/S7 Edge/S7/S6 Edge/S6/S5/S4/S3, Galaxy Note 9/Note 8/Note 7/ Note 5/Note 4/Note 3/Note2,etc.

Tutorial: Recover Deleted Photos from Galaxy S9/S9+

Step 1. Run Program and Connect Samsung Galaxy S9 to the Computer
To begin with, run the Android Toolkit program on the computer, click “Android Data Recovery” mode in the home page of program.

run android data recovery

Then please connect your Samsung Galaxy S9 phone to the computer via an USB cable. The wizard that appears on screen will walk you through the steps to enable USB Debugging mode. Do it as required, if you have enabled USB debugging beofre, please skip this step.

Related Article: How to Enable USB Debugging Mode on Android Phone

connect Galaxy S9 to computer

Step 2. Allow Program Connect Samsung to the Computer
Please click “OK” on the phone and go on, allow the program detect your device on the computer.

allow to connect device

Step 3. Select the Photos File to Restore from Samsung
Once allowing program detect your device on computer, you’ll see this window,different types of files can be chose to be scan by program. Select the deleted files from Samsung that to be scanned and then click “Next” to go on. For Photos recovery, you should click “Gallery” and “Picture Library“. You can click more than one files at the same time.

select photos to recover

Tips: You can click “Select all” to have all your Samsung data scanned.

Step 4. Allow Scanning and Analyzing Data on Samsung
You’ll get a window as follow on your device after your device is detected by the program.Tap “Allow” on your device to enable the program to scan your device for deleted data.

allow scanning Samsung S9

Note: Please make sure that your phone battery is more than 20% charged and keep the connection between your phone and the computer.

Step 5. Root the Samsung phone for Deep Scanning(Option)
If you have rooted your phone previously, please skip this rooting step. If you haven’t rooted the device, you have to root the Samsung phone firstly, so that the software can deep scan the phone memory and find the deleted/lost pictures. To do this, click Advanced Root button to download a tool named KingoRoot and use this root tool to root your Samsung phone.

samsung s9 root

For more information, please consult the article: how to safely root and unroot an Android device.

Step 6. Scan Samsung Galaxy S9 for Deleted Data
In this step the program will begin to scan data on your phone, it will cost you a little time.

scan deleted photo files

Step 7. Recover Deleted Photos from Samsung Galaxy S9
When the scan is complete, you are allowed to preview all data found on your phone, including photos, contacts, SMS and more. Preview then retrieving the data you want under “Gallery” and “Picture Library” file to restore by clicking “Recover” button to save Samsung Galaxy S9 lost/deleted pictures on the computer.

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Video Guide helps you to recover deleted photos from Android phone more easily:

Part 2:Restore Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+ Photos via Google Account

Here is the easy method to backup your Samsung photos and videos to Google Drive (Google Cloud Backup Service). Firstly, please login your Google account: Setting >> Google >> Sync >> Backup your photos & videos and tap “Done” to backup photos and videos to Google Drive on Samsung Galaxy S9 or S9+. If you have make your Samsung Galaxy S9 pictures and videos backup via Google account, below is the easy guide to restore photos to your phone.

google drive backup Samsung s9 photos and videos

If you ever backed up photos of your phone via Google account, you can restore the data from Google account easily. Here are steps to restore deleted and lost photos from Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+ via Google account.

Note that photos will be removed from Google cloud after 60 days.

Step 1. Run “Google Photos”/”Photos” app on your Samsung.

google photos restore

Step 2. Tap on the “” icon at the left top of the interface.

Step 3. Select “Trash” option in the panel.

Step 4. Preview your deleted images.

Step 5. Select desired ones to “Restore” on Samsung.

Part 3: Recover deleted photos from Samsung Cloud

As Apple iCloud, Samsung company also provide Samsung Cloud service for Samsung mobile phone users to sync, backup and restore data. If you are concerned about data loss or accidental deletion, you should sync data from Samsung Galaxy phone to Samsung Could regularly, after backing Samsung data to Samsung Cloud, you are no longer worried about data loss, even if your Samsung Galaxy device is stolen, lost or broken/damaged. Samsung Cloud offers 15 GB of free storage, so you can upload photos, videos, audios and document files to Samsung Cloud.

More Features of Samsung Cloud:

  • Restore files to a Samsung phone/tablet from Samsung Cloud
  • Download files from Samsung Cloud to computer
  • Back up and restore your Samsung data via Samsung Cloud
  • Free up your Samsung phone space with Samsung Cloud
  • Backup Samsung data to Samsung Cloud before Android OS upgrade
  • Manage and access your Samsung Cloud storage easily
  • Use Samsung Cloud on the web

If you have backed up photos, videos, music and other documents files to Samsung Galaxy S9 to Samsung Cloud previously, once your lost or deleted photos on Galaxy S9 by accidentally, you can easily retrieve deleted photos from Samsung Cloud easily. Let’s show you how to download photo files from Samsung Cloud to Samsung Galaxy S9:

Steps to Recover Photos from Samsung Cloud to Galaxy S9

Step 1. From the Home screen, tap Settings.

Recover Photos from Samsung Cloud to Galaxy S9

Step 2. Scroll down and tap Accounts and backup.

Step 3. Please tap Samsung Cloud.

Recover Photos from Samsung Cloud

Step 4. Then tap Restore data, this option is below the “BACK UP AND RESTORE” heading.

Step 5. Tap Gallery option in the list.

Restore Photos from Samsung Cloud to Galaxy S9

Step 6. Then tap Sync Now to restore the uploaded pictures.

download photos from Samsung Cloud

The latest cloud backup photos will be restored to Samsung Galaxy S9 from Samsung Cloud.

Disadvantage: Although Samsung Cloud allows you upload photos, videos, audio and documents files, but it can’t backup contacts, messages, call logs, WhatsApp messages and more App data, if you deleted text contents, you should use a third party Android Data Recovery to recover them. In addition, individual files over 1GB will not be uploaded to Samsung Cloud, if you never sync data to Samsung Cloud previously, please follow the part 1 to recover deleted files from Samsung phone without any backup.

Part 4: Tips to Avoid Samsung Data Loss

Although our software can help you to recover Android phone’s lost or deleted files,once your phone is lost, damaged or stolen,you can no longer buy the important data back.Therefore, we strongly recommend that you should back up your data regularly,once the unexpected things happen,you can easily restore your deleted Android data back from the previous backup.

1.Back Up Data with Official PC Suite – Smart Switch or Samsung Kies

Samsung also provide the Official phone manager and backup tool for users to keep their data safely.Your can also use the official backup App for Samsung such as Smart Switch or Samsung Kies to backup your Samsung data.
The Smart Switch is free for you to back up the important content saved in your Samsung device to the external SD card. And Samsung Kies a phone manager,which allows you to back up and restore data from your Samsung on the computer.
If your phone is broken,here is the guide teach you how to backup/extract data from broken Samsung phone to PC via Smart Switch

backup samsung photos via android transfer

2. Back Up with Third-party Software

You can also choose the third – party Android backup software such as U.Fone Android Backup & Restore, Android Transfer, which allows you to back up everything including photos, videos, contacts, text messages, call logs and more from your Android phone to the computer easily.What’s more,the Android Transfer also helps you transfer music, videos from iTunes to Android devices; transfer data between Android and Android, iOS and Android,etc.

backup samsung photos via android transfer

3. Back Up with Cloud Storage

Above is the two ways for you backup your Android data to the computer,if you don’t want to install the program on computer,you can backup your important Android data through cloud backup service.Here,we recommended to use Dropbox or Samsung Cloud to back up and share photos, save photos/videos from Samsung phone to Google Drive or back up data to OneDrive.

sync samsung s9 photos to google account

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