When you delete pictures on your Android phone, you can access your Photos app and go into your albums, then, scroll to the bottom and tap on "Recently Deleted." In that folder, you will find all the photos you have deleted within the last 30 days.
If you delete a photo or video that's backed up in Google Photos, it will stay in your trash for 60 days. If you delete an item from your Android 11 and up device without it being backed up, it will stay in your trash for 30 days.
The photos you delete on your smartphone or tablet will be moved to the Recently Deleted or Trash folder. They will stay there for 30 days. If you delete a picture on your computer, it will go to the Recycle Bin (on Windows) or Trash (on Mac) before they are completely removed.
You can only retrieve the data from Google Drive if you factory reset the Android. Hence, a hacker intending to access your deleted photos backed up on Google Drive can factory reset the Android. After factory resetting the phone, he can easily access and misuse your deleted photos.
There is a part of the internet called the deepweb, but it's not where stuff that deleted goes. Stuff that's deleted before being saved by someone else just disappears completely. The deepweb is the stuff that search engines can't find.
Keeping Your Data Secure
So, can police recover deleted pictures, texts, and files from a phone? The answer is yes—by using special tools, they can find data that hasn't been overwritten yet. However, by using encryption methods, you can ensure your data is kept private, even after deletion.
To conclude, your “deleted data” are not really deleted so you can rest assured that they can easily be recovered (with File Recovery, Partition Recovery or Undelete, etc.) if they were not overwritten with other data.
If you organize a photo or video into an album, then delete it from Photos, it will delete everywhere, including that album. You can recover the photo in the Recently Deleted album for 30 days. If you have trouble with iCloud Photos or managing your photos, get help with iCloud Photos.
When you delete photos and videos, they go to your Recently Deleted album for 30 days. After 30 days, they'll be permanently deleted. If you use iCloud Photos, and delete photos and videos from one device, the photos and videos will be deleted on your other devices.
Photos you delete and hide are saved in the Hidden and Recently Deleted albums, which you unlock using your iPhone authentication method.
On iCloud.com, you can recover files deleted from both iCloud Drive and other apps within the last 30 days, whether you deleted them on iCloud.com or another device that has iCloud Drive turned on. However, you can't recover or restore files you permanently remove.
The direct answer is no. You can treat the Recycle Bin as the last frontier for the data you wish to delete. Whether you accidentally or intentionally deleted any critical data, you can still easily retrieve them here before you permanently remove them from your system.
Unless you've disabled it, Google Activity has been keeping a record of your online activity for the last decade. It knows every link you've followed, every image you've clicked on, and the URLs you've entered in the address bar (even if you've been clearing your browser search history regularly).
Information retained until your Google Account is deleted
We keep some data for the life of your Google Account if it's useful for helping us understand how users interact with our features and how we can improve our services.
Deleted files are at risk
Cybercriminals and hackers can gain access to personal information stored in your computer even after you think you've deleted the files. This includes everything from financial documents to scanned images. If you think those files are gone because they've been deleted, think again.
On your Android device, open the Google Photos app. Sign in to your Google Account. At the bottom, click on Library and then go to Trash and then More. Next, click the Empty Trash option and tap Delete permanently.
When you delete a piece of data from your device — a photo, video, text or document — it doesn't vanish. Instead, your device labels that space as available to be overwritten by new information.
Since the confidential history files are actually not gone from your computer after deletion, they can be accessed and recovered by unauthorized parties using free file recovery tools available on the web.
All in all, your browsing history adds up to a complete and personal footprint of your internet activities, so it's only natural that you should clear it from time to time. However, clearing your online history with your web browser or operating system doesn't make the data disappear for good.
Deleting your browsing history is like deleting your email's “Sent” folder. On your end, it's gone, but the information has already been sent. Your information is on the WiFi owners' router logs, even if you have cleared it on your end.
When you delete a file from iCloud Drive or On My [device], it goes into your Recently Deleted folder. After 30 days, your files are removed from Recently Deleted. If you change your mind or accidentally delete a file, you have 30 days to get it back.
If you have your iPhone, go to Photos > Albums, scroll down, tap Recently Deleted, tap Select, then select all the photos and tap Recover. Your photos are back where they used to be. Easy!
For iPhone, the Recently Deleted folder can keep the deleted items for 30 days. Beyond this period, if you're desperate to recover deleted photos from iPhone after 30 days, you need to seek help from iCloud/iTunes backups.