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Photos and videos
Delete photos and videos
You can delete photos and videos:
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Just from your phone's storage.
•
From both your phone's storage and your
Tip: Keep the photos but free your phone storage. You can
your phone if they're backed up to your Google account.
From the
Camera app
1.
Tap the photo thumbnail (next to
2.
Do one of the following:
•
To delete it from your phone's storage and your Google account backup, tap
the icon, tap the screen first.)
•
To delete it only from your phone's storage, tap > Delete from device.
From the
Photos app
1.
From the list of thumbnail photos:
•
To select one item, touch & hold it.
•
To select multiple items, touch & hold the first one, then tap the others.
2.
Do one of the following:
•
To delete it from your phone's storage and your Google account backup, tap
•
To delete it only from your phone's storage, tap > Delete from device.
Recover deleted photos and videos
If you automatically
back up
When you delete a photo or video, it's moved to the Trash in the Photos app for several weeks, before being
deleted forever.
To recover a photo or video:
1.
Open
the
Photos app.
2.
Tap Library > Trash.
3.
Touch & hold the photo or video.
4.
Tap Restore.
If you don't back up photos to your Google account, to maximize use of your phone's internal storage
space, there's no undo. Once you delete something from your phone's storage, it's gone. You can try using
a third-party app to
recover
Google account backup
).
photos to your Google account, you have some time to recover deleted items.
recently deleted photos or videos.
schedule automatic deletion
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