DiskDigger photo recovery

Defiant Technologies, LLC

About this app

DiskDigger can undelete and recover lost photos, images, or videos from your internal memory or external memory card. Whether you accidentally deleted a photo, or even reformatted your memory card, DiskDigger's powerful data recovery features can find your lost pictures and videos, and let you restore them.

You can upload your recovered files directly to Google Drive, Dropbox, or send them via email. The app also allows you to save the files to a different local folder on your device.

Note: DiskDigger requires the "Access all files" permission on your device, to be able to search all locations on the device for lost and recoverable photos. When you are asked for this permission, please enable it so that DiskDigger can search your device most effectively.

* If your device is not rooted, the app will perform a "limited" scan for your deleted photos or videos by searching your cache and thumbnails.

* If your device is rooted, the app will search all of your device's memory for any trace of photos, as well as videos!

* After the scan is complete, tap the "Clean up" button to permanently delete any items that you no longer need (currently an experimental feature, available only in the Basic Scan).

* You can also use the "Wipe free space" option to erase the remaining free space on your device, so that any deleted files can no longer be recoverable.

For complete instructions, please see http://diskdigger.org/android

If you need to recover more types of files besides photos and videos, try DiskDigger Pro!

Ratings and reviews

Looking to recover some images I'd accidentally deleted, including from the recycle bin, I was thrilled to find this app claiming the ability to recover deleted files. It managed to locate nearly 2000 images on my phone that it could "recover". Sadly where I take "recover" to mean that it can get back, retrieve, undelete, rescue etc. files deleted in error the developers seem to think it means to display all the image files that haven't been deleted. I already have Gallery to show me those. 🤦‍

I never, ever write reviews but for this one it just had to be done! I lost over 1500 photos of my children after an update on my phone! And after a day of tears I have recovered every single one! The app is amazing!!! I can't recommend it enough!! Even Samsung directly told me that they would never be able to recover my images.... but this app CAN!! :-D

Downloaded this after my daughter deliberately deleted some photos, little did she know I could get them back. Extra features, could do with a file name wild card filter facility, file date filter. If you get back small or blurred pictures these are what are called thumbnail pictures, your phone creates them automatically to save time when viewing the gallery before loading the full picture. When a picture/file is deleted that space is marked as available to be used again, at some point it will be over written and what was there is gone forever. So what you get back is dependent on how long it's been since deletion and how empty space is used.

What's new

- Support for Dark mode! (Automatically switches when the system is set to Dark mode)
- Improved support for more types of devices and Android versions.