How to Recover Deleted Photos from Huawei Phone

Updated to Home > HowTos > File Recovery Tips by Nancy on Mar 25, 2024 | Approved by Cesar C

Since Huawei phone becomes the new star in the mobile phone market as the smartest device to take photos, instead of using it as a phone, more and more use it as a camera. However, you can see people always ask the question "how can I recover deleted photos from my Huawei phone", "how can I recover permanently deleted photos from Huawei". Actually, after losing or deleting photos on Huawei, you can try your luck to retrieve the deleted photos on Huawei. Here are the 4 ways available. Choose the right way according to your condition.

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Part 1. Check out Recently Deleted Folder to Recover Deleted Photos on Huawei
Part 2. How to Retrieve Permanently Deleted Photos on Huawei
Part 3. How to Restore Deleted Photos on Huawei with Backup File
Part 4. How to Recover Deleted Photos on Huawei with Huawei HiSuite

Part 1. Check out Recently Deleted Folder to Recover Deleted Photos on Huawei

No matter what model the Huawei phone is, it has the "Recently Deleted" album, letting you restore the accidentally deleted photos from Huawei phone. Here are the steps for how to retrieve photos from the "Recently Deleted" album.

1. Open the Gallery on your Huawei phone

2. Please view the albums and find "Recently Deleted"

3. Preview all the deleted pictures there. Find the target deleted photos on Huawei phone, select them and click "Restore". After then, you can see the restored photos are in the original albums.

Part 2. How to Retrieve Permanently Deleted Photos on Huawei

If you haven’t find the deleted photos in the "Recently Deleted" album, then you must have permanently deleted the photos on your Huawei phone. The good news is that you can’t permanently delete the photos as you want manually, because any deleted file does not permanently remove from the device, but waiting to be replaced by new data. In this case, you need to recover deleted photos on Huawei phone as soon as possible. The sooner the better result you’ll get. Otherwise, you’ll lose the photos permanently.

To recover the permanently deleted photos from Huawei phone, you need the help of a professional data recovery software for android phone internal memory. You can not see the deleted photos on your Huawei phone, but the tool is able to. I recommend you try iBeesoft Data Recovery. It is a desktop software tool. Please note that there is no real app running on the phone to recover deleted files because no app is able to scan your whole phone or other apps for the lost photos.

Among the Huawei phone photo recovery app, iBeesoft Data Recovery is one of the best with its user-friendly interface and continuously update, making it very simple and easy for users to restore deleted photo on Huawei phone. Compared with another program, it is simpler, designed with a simple interface, streamline built-in navigation and no jargon. You can try it free to recover permanently deleted files in Windows 11, 10 or Mac. Here are the steps for how to use it to find deleted photos on Huawei phone:

Step 1. Install the Huawei Photo Recovery Software on Computer

No matter you’re using a Windows PC or Mac, you can download and install the corresponding version for the Mac or PC respectively, mostly depending on which type of computer you use.

Download for Windows Download for macOS

Step 2. Connect Your Huawei Phone with Computer

Use a USB cable to connect your Huawei phone with your computer, making sure your computer detects the phone as an external hard drive. Launch the software to recover deleted photos on Mac or Windows PC, and in the start-up window, uncheck other types of files (only keep the "Pictures" checked) and click "Start". By doing this, it will save your time for the scanning.

Step 3. Select Huawei Phone to Scan

In the next step, you can see all hard drives as well as the connected Huawei phone in the list. Please select the one that stands for Huawei phone and click "Scan" to recover photos from Huawei phone.

Step 4. Recover Deleted Photos on Huawei Phone

Last, you can see the software begins to scan the Huawei phone for the deleted photos. When it finished, you can see all found files are sorted into categories on the left panel. Select the file types in the left panel and preview the files on the right side. When finding the target photos, select them and click "Recover" to save them on your computer.

If the Quick Scan, I mean the default scanning mode, does not find the target deleted photos on Huawei phone, try the Deep Scan mode in the result window. It will scan more carefully for the deleted photos on Huawei phone.

Part 3. How to Restore Deleted Photos on Huawei with Backup File

If you have a backup file of your Huawei phone, then you can recover the deleted photos for Huawei phone by restoring from the backup file. Before go down to the steps, make sure you had backed the phone before the photos deleted.

1. launch the Backup app on your Huawei phone.

2. Tap "Restore" > "Restore from internal storage" > select "Photos".

3. Tap "Start Restoration" to recover deleted photos on Huawei.

Part 4. How to Recover Deleted Photos on Huawei with Huawei HiSuite

A desktop software named as Huawei HiSuite on the computer is able to let you back up and restore files to Huawei phone. If you had used it to back up your device, you can try it to retrieve the deleted photos from Huawei phone.

Step 1. Launch HiSuite on your computer and connect your Huawei phone.

Step 2. Click "Restore" in the restoration page > select data to restore. You can one option is "Picture". Select it and restore the photos.