4 Ways to Recover Deleted Photos on Samsung Galaxy Note 10 (Plus)

If you love taking pictures, you've probably got hundreds of photos saved to Gallery or DCIM folder in the Samsung Galaxy Note 10. If you somehow deleted a precious photo or entire album of images off the phone by accident, it would be a catastrophe.

Granted, the pictures that have been lost or deleted can be recovered from Note10, and there're a few ways saving your bacon. Read the post and pick which tool for retrieving photos on Galaxy Note 10/ Note 10+ is best for you. The solid options are here: The most obvious choice is the Trash within Samsung Cloud and Google Photos. If you haven't synced photos to the cloud, the third-party Android Data Recovery is a surprisingly robust option. Or, you can go with Data Recovery to recover pictures from SD card on Samsung Note10+ (Note 10 lacks a microSD card slot).

1. Samsung Cloud Trash

If you are missing the photos that should be kept in the Gallery, go to check the Trash folder immediately and restore deleted photos on Samsung Galaxy Note10 within a grace period of 15 days. It's important to note that if you haven't set up Samsung account to sync pictures onto Samsung Cloud, this unfortunately won't work.

• Unlock Samsung Galaxy Note 10 device.
• Go to Settings > Accounts and backup > Samsung Cloud > Gallery.
• Choose Trash, and select the pictures you've deleted recently but need them back.
• Tap Restore to recover recently deleted pictures on Note10 (Plus).

You could also retrieve deleted pictures from Note10 Trash in Gallery settings:

• Open Gallery app.
• Tap More options (three dots), and select Trash.
• Choose the deleted photos you wish, and tap Restore.

2. Google Photos

This is pretty simple, which you'd expect - as long as you sync photos with Google Photos. As it turns out, when you delete a picture in Gallery album, it goes into Google Photos' own trash. Just find the Trash folder and you should still have the deleted photo back to Samsung Note10 memory from any point in time over the past 60 days.

• Head to Google Photos on Note10.
• Tap three dots (Menu) in the top left corner, and choose Trash.
• Highlight the photo(s) to retrieve.
• Tap Restore and you're all good.

3. Photo Recovery App for Galaxy Note 10 (Plus)

If you have never performed synchronization for Note10 photos and cannot find an important photo in the recycle bin, there is always the way of downloading a data recovery program. An ideally effective process of recovering pictures of Note10 is to embrace Android Data Recovery, which can dive deep into the phone memory as well as the microSD card to look for any deleted photos, and then give you the option of retrieving them.

Android Data Recovery is very much a full-blown application that makes it more productive to achieve the task for recovery of lost photos and other data. It will locate deleted files in the memory, and the generated results are accurate though the phone is clogged with data - thanks to its smart scanning technique. One more neat thing is that the software sorts and filters the found files by types after the scan, so as to be able to quickly recover desired items.

Let's focus on how to get the most out the utility to recover Gallery photos from Samsung Galaxy Note 10 phone. This approach works for recovering Note 10+ pictures in SD card as well.

Step 1: Run the app and plug Galaxy Note10 into computer

Launch the software on Mac or PC as you would normally, and you will get a window with three modes for different purposes.

To get photos retrieved on Galaxy Note10 internal storage, choose "Android Data Recovery" mode. Then connect Note10 to the computer.

Step 2: Turn on USB debugging mode

When the phone is detected, follow the hints on the screen to enable the feature of USB debugging if asked. Read also: How to allow USB debugging on Android.

Step 3: Choose type for "Gallery" to scan for missing pictures

Next decide what you want the software scan for. This shortens the scan time and narrows down the scan results.

In this case for a Samsung Note10 photos recovery, check the tiny box next to "Gallery" as well as "Picture Library". Click Next button to procced.

Now a notification appears on the window, asking whether you want to root Galaxy Note10 to proceed a deep scan for more deleted pictures files.

To do that, click Rooting Tools button, then download KingoRoot application from an external website. Related: How to root Android phone.

Once you get the phone rooted, the program will access the system and search for images. This may take a while, so have a cup of tea while you wait.

Step 4: Select photos and recover them to computer

When it finishes scanning Note10 device memory, the found pictures appear in the preview pane.

Once you find the photo you're looking for, highlight each one by placing a checkmark in the checkbox.

If you feel comfortable with your selections, hit Recover button. This brings out a dialog box, prompting you to save the photos elsewhere on the computer.

Designate a path and click Recover button. All memories are coming back!

Model Numbers for Samsung Galaxy Note10/ Note10+: SM-N970F, SM-N970F/DS, SM-N970U, SM-N970U1, SM-N970W, SM-N9700/DS, or SM-N970N, SM-N975F, SM-N975F/DS, SM-N975U, SM-N975U1, SM-N975W, SM-N9750/DS, or SM-N975N, etc.

4. SD Card Photos Recovery on Galaxy Notes 10 Plus

The route caters for the Samsung Note10+ owners who lost photos from the attached memory card. There's a good chance that you'll get photos back through a recovery tool. Using Data Recovery can make it work but the only thing is that any deleted file hasn't been overwritten, so you'll need to eject the SD card once realizing the loss.

Now dive into the process for recovering lost Galaxy Note10+ pictures in microSD card:

• Connect the card to computer with the card reader.
• Fire up Data Recovery. You should see the USB drive of SD card on the window.
• Choose "Image" and the card, and click Scan button.
• Choose the photos you would like to retrieve.
• Click Recover button.

The recovered images should save on the computer. You could move them to DCIM folder on Samsung Galaxy Note10 Plus device. You may also find the article helpful: How to retrieve pictures from SD card on Samsung phone.