I have just accidentally deleted some very important photos off an sd card using my iPad. I hadn’t put them on the iPad yet as it was saying memory full so tried to delete some old ones and somehow managed to delete the new ones too! Is there any way of recovering the deleted photos? Yours hopefully 😔
iPad Air 2, iOS 12
There are recovery services from SanDisk you can try, but there are no guarantee's it will work. There's nothing you can do on your iPad. You would go to www.sandisk.com and "purchase" the software (it isn't free) unless you got SanDisk recovery software with a SanDisk SD card. Their higher end cards often include the recovery software. Once you've downloaded the software, you can put your memory card in the SD Card Reader on your laptop and hope the photos can be recovered.
You have a very good chance of recovering the deleted photos. Just be sure to write protect the SD card to prevent new photos or data from getting saved onto the card.
What happens when photos/files get deleted is that they are still there on the storage device but they're marked as deleted (or not visible). Recovery software can see those photos that are marked as deleted. Those photos will be gone permanently from the storage when you save new data or photos. In other words, deleted photos will be overwritten with new data, if you don't write protect it and recovery software will not be able to recover them any longer.
Thank you. I'm just off live webchat with sandisc. They confirmed to try the free software which tells you if your files are there, if they are I can then purchase to download. I’m actually on holiday so will need to wait to get home to my laptop on Sunday! Wish me luck!
More than likely not, or ask SD.
ShagCA is absolutely right. As long as you don't take new photos with that card, overwriting what's there, I believe you'll get the photos back, like he does.
Accidentally deleted photos of my sd memory card
