How To Permanently Delete Photos & Videos On Android (2023)
7Easy to follow tutorial on permanently deleting photos and videos from Android devices. When you delete an image normally, it just goes to your recently deleted folder where it can still be viewed. This tutorial shows you how to permanently delete photos from your Gallery on Android.
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Steps:
- When you delete photos and videos from the gallery of your phone, they are moved to a trash folder, which will keep them there for 30 days, at which point they will be permanently deleted.
- If you want to permanently delete them right away, here is what to do.
- Open up the gallery app on your phone and tap on the three lines button in the bottom right corner.
- Tap on ‘recycle bin’ from the menu that appears.
- Here you will see all of the photos and videos that you have deleted in the last 30 days, you can see at the bottom of each image how many days it has left before it will be permanently deleted.
- Tap on the image you want to permanently delete, and then tap on the trash icon in the bottom right corner of the image.
- Tap ‘delete’ on the popup. That image will be permanently deleted.
- You can also choose multiple photos to permanently delete by tapping ‘edit’ at the top, selecting several photos, and then tapping ‘delete’ in the bottom right.
- Tap ‘delete’ on the popup.
- You can also permanently delete everything from your recycle bin by tapping the three dots button in the top right, then tapping ‘empty’.
- Tap ‘empty recycle bin’ on the popup.
- If you don’t want your photos to be moved to the recycle bin when you delete them, but instead want them to be immediately deleted, you can disable the recycle bin altogether.
- This is a pretty risky thing to do though, as if at some point you delete a photo or video by mistake there will be no way to get it back.
- But if you are sure you want to disable your recycle bin, go to your gallery and tap on the three lines button in the bottom right corner, and then tap on ‘settings’ from the menu that appears.
- In settings turn the toggle off to the right of ‘recycle bin’ and then tap ‘turn off’ on the popup. Note that any photos or videos that are currently in your recycle bin will be deleted when you turn it off.
- When you delete photos or videos now they will immediately be permanently deleted.