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How to Recover WhatsApp Photos and Videos from Android

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May 2th, 2022

[Summary]:Accidentally deleted WhatsApp photos and videos on your Android phone? This article will teach you two ways to recover WhatsApp photos and videos from Android phone,like Samsung Galaxy S20/S11/S10/Note 20, HTC, Huawei Mate 30/P40, Google Pixel with WhatsApp backup and Android WhatsApp Photos, Videos Recovery.

WhatsApp app is a popular free chat Apps,more and more users chat online with WhatsApp app,you can sending or receiving pictures, videos and text messages through WhatsApp on Android phones.Sometimes you may lost or deleted WhatsApp imanges and videos on your Android phone due to improper operation,such as deleted by careless, rooting, factory reset, phone broken, system breakdown,etc.

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So how to recover lost or deleted videos and pictures from WhatsApp attachments on Android? Here are two methods to recover deleted WhatsApp photos and videos and you can also use the Android WhatsApp recovery to recover deleted images and videos from WhatsApp.
 

Way 1: Restore deleted Pictures and Videos from Android Phone with WhatsApp Backup

Way 2: Recover deleted Photos and Videos from Android without WhatsApp Backup

Tips: Backup WhatsApp Media Files from Android

 

Way 1: Restore deleted Pictures and Videos from Android Phone with WhatsApp Backup


As we all knows that WhatsApp backs up everyday automatically, and if you just lost your WhatsApp pictures and videos within seven days, you can restore them with Auto-backup for WhatsApp. Let’s learn how to WhatsApp attachments,like photos and videos with WhatsApp recovery.

Step 1.Uninstall and Re-install WhatsApp on your Android phone.

Step 2.After re-installing the WhatsApp App on your phone,there will be a notice pop up your Samsung or other Android phone,please click "Restore" to retrieve them back.

Step 3.Waiting for deleted WhatsApp photos and videos recovery.
Only few minutes, all of your deleted files within 7 days are retrieved back from backup for WhatsApp, including your photos and videos on WhatsApp app.

restore WhatsApp messages

Also, if you deleted your WhatsApp videos and photos by deleting your whole chat history, you can view and find these pictures and videos easily. Just go to "/sdcard/WhatsApp/Media", and you will find folders for audio, video and images you sent or received on WhatsApp.

Advantages of restoring from WhatsApp backup:

1.You can achieve your WhatsApp videos and photos recovery for free.

2.It is easy to operate.

Disadvantage of recovering from backup:

1.You can only restore files deleted within 7 days.

2.With this backup restoring method,your current file will in WhatsApp will be lost due to data overwrite.
 

Way 2: Recover deleted Photos and Videos from Android without WhatsApp Backup


The photos and videos on WhatsApp app you have deleted over a week,you cannot recover WhatsApp files with WhatsApp backups. Don’t worry,you can use a
Android Data Recovery to recover lost WhatsApp sending and receiving pictures, video and WhatsApp messages,even you have deleted seven days ago. What’s more,this program also allows you recover other lost data on Android phone,including library photos, videos, contacts, text messages, call logs and documents.

Now,please download this Android Data Recovery and follow the guide below to retrieve deleted WhatsApp chat history, videos and pictures from Android without WhatsApp backup.

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Easy Steps to achieve WhatsApp Pictures and Videos Recovery

 

1 Download & Install FoneLab

 
Go to FoneLab Official Website, select the windows or Mac versions through clicking Download for PC or Download for Mac.


2 Run FoneLab on Computer
 
Launch FoneLab Android Data Recovery on your computer, choose Android Data Recovery and then connect your device to the computer with USB cable.

There are other two options including Broken Android Data Extraction and Android Data Backup & Restore to fix Android OS problems or backup & restore Android data.
 

3 Enable USB debugging
 
You can follow the on-screen or below instruction to enable USB debugging.

Android 2.0-2.3.x: Settings > Applications > Development > USB Debugging

Android 3.0-4.1.x: Settings > Developer Options > USB Debugging

Android 4.2.x-Android 5.0 Lollipop: Go to Settings > About phone or About tablet, tap Build Number a few times till you see You are now a developer!, and then back to Developer Options under Settings app, to tick the box next to USB debugging.

 
4 Choose Scanning File Type
 
Tick the boxes of the file types you want to recover, click the green Next button in the bottom right corner. If you want to recover all Android data on the device, you can check the box next to Select All.
 

5 Get Privilege
 
The program will need the privilege to read your device data so you should follow the on-screen instruction root your device.

The program will ask you to install the root app to your device and then tap Allow/Authorize/Grant on the pop-up window on your device once the app is installed successfully. Then it will begin to root and scan your data.

 
6 Select Recoverable Files
 
So, you can see all recoverable data after the scanning is done. Click the file type from the left column, and then tick the items you want to get back. Click Recover.

If you want to find the items you want effectively, you can turn on the button on the top of the window to display the deleted items only.
 

7 Choose Folder & Recover
 
You can get a pop-up window to show you the path that to save the recovered data and you can change the path as you like, click Recover again.

 
When the recovering process is done, WhatsApp videos and pictures are recovered to your computer, and you can get them back to your Android phone or make other operations as you like.

Download it and try to recover WhatsApp data from Android devices by yourself!

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Whats More about Android Data Recovery:
 

This Android Data Recovery not only can help you recover WhatsApp videos/images,but also allows you recover deleted WhatsApp messages on Android and other Android data,including contacts, SMS, photos, videos and more.In additional,if your phone is broken,the Broken Android Data Recovery features also allows you recover WhatsApp messages and WhatsApp attachments from broken Samsung Galaxy S6/S5/S4/Note 5/Note 4/Note 3 with broken screen or black screen.

-Recover deleted SMS, contacts, call logs and documents from Android phone/SD card.
-Retrieve lost photos, music, videos and WhatsApp file from Android device.
-Restore deleted data from Samsung, HTC, LG, Huawei, Sony, Sharp, Windows phone, etc.
-Back up Android data to PC or Mac for forever preservation.
-Fix frozen, crashed, black-screen, virus-attack, screen-locked phone to normal.
-Extract messages, contacts, call history, WhatsApp, photos, etc. from broken phone.
-Recover deleted files from Android phone/SD card/tablet on Windows 10/8/7 and macOS Sierra/macOS High Sierra.

Tips: Backup WhatsApp Media Files from Android


As you can see above, you are able to recover deleted WhatsApp photos and videos on your Android device over days. Though you can get back lost data easily, you are recommended to back up your Android WhatsApp frequently to prevent your important WhatsApp chat history from losing.Here,you can use this
Android Backup & Restore tool to backup all data including contacts, SMS, WhatsApp chat history from Android to computer.

backup restore WhatsApp on Android

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How to Recover Deleted Photos on Android

 

How to Recover Lost Videos on Android

 

How to Recover Photos from Broken Android

 

How to Retrieve Lost Text Message from Android

 

How to Backup and Restore Data on Android

 

How to Restore Backup File to Android Phone