Delete a photograph, and get it back
Clear out the blurred ones without a moment of worry, because you will know exactly where they go and how to get them back.
People keep four hundred near-identical photographs of the same sunset because they are frightened of pressing the wrong one. There is no need.
A deleted photograph goes into an album called Recently Deleted and sits there for thirty days. It is not gone. It is in a waiting room, and putting it back takes two presses.
Key points
- Delete a photograph knowing it goes to a thirty-day waiting room
- Find Recently Deleted at the bottom of the Albums screen
- Recover anything from it in two presses
- Clear out the blurred and the accidental without hesitating
What to remember
- The phone always asks once before deleting. There is no way to do it by accident.
- Thirty days. After that it goes, and only then is it genuinely beyond reach.
- On an iPhone, Recently Deleted sits at the bottom of the Albums screen. Google Photos calls it Bin and keeps it in Library, or behind your picture in the corner. Either way it is there, and the photograph is not gone.
Try this
Open Albums → Recently Deleted on your own phone. Most people find twenty or thirty pictures in there they had entirely forgotten about, and one or two they are glad to see again.
Practice: Delete a photograph, and get it back. Your first lesson is free, with no account or card; the rest are part of a Lantern plan. Interactive lessons require JavaScript.