WhatsApp, the most popular messaging app, offers the ability to store received photos. If you want to delete them, you will need to delete them from both the conversation and the gallery.
What if you want to restore it?
The first thing you can do is go to the gallery and see if the photo is there. If not, there are some other options available to you. To shorten the search, you can always search in WhatsApp.
If you don’t see the photo and use cloud storage, there is hope. If you use automatic image sending, there is a chance that WhatsApp sent the image to the cloud.
Look under sent images, in the photo repository or some smaller folder in which WhatsApp may store the images.
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How to save a picture sent by someone else on WhatsApp?
When retrieving a picture from oblivion, the contact you corresponded with can help – all you need to do is ask them if they have a picture in the conversation – if you haven’t used the delete option for everyone, the chances of another person having a picture saved are very high. If he has it, he can pass it on to you.
How to save photos stored in WhatsApp backup?
If no one in the group or conversation has the photo you are looking for anymore, you can always resort to the backup trick, provided that you have not backed up your WhatsApp in the period after you deleted it. If so, you have a ‘snapshot’ of your WhatsApp in the cloud after deleting the image.
If not, all you need to do is delete the app, reinstall it, and enter the conversation that contained the photo. If you haven’t backed up, all you need to do is try it out and store it.
The sad truth about recovering deleted photos in WhatsApp
If none of these methods help, you, unfortunately, have to say goodbye to the photo. The data in the conversation depends on the security settings and data archives on the interlocutor’s phones. This means that if you have not saved the photo, enabled automatic saving, deleted it only for yourself, or left it in the archive, you will have to access it in some other way.
