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I accidentally deleted some important photos from my SD card. How can I get them back?

I accidentally deleted some very important photos off an SD card using my iPad. These photos are not on my iPad yet as it was saying memory full, so I tried to delete some old ones and somehow mistakenly removed the new ones too! Is there any way of recovering the deleted photos? Any suggestion?

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iBoysoft author Jenny Zeng

Jenny Zeng

Answered on Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Using a reliable data recovery application, you can still get back the photos deleted from your SD card.

When you save a file to a disk, you store not only its actual data but also the information about it in different places. What happens when your photos get deleted is that the photos are marked as deleted and the space where they are stored becomes available for new data or photos.

However, until the storage space is overwritten by new files, they are still on your SD card and can be retrieved. What you need to do now is to avoid saving any new photos to the SD card and start data recovery right away.

Here, we'll use iBoysoft Data Recovery as an example to help you recover the deleted photos on the SD card. It's a professional data recovery tool that can recover deleted photos, videos, audio, documents, etc., from various storage media including SD cards, USB sticks, hard drives, etc.

Here's how to undelete your photos from the SD card:

Step 1: Safely eject the SD card from your iPad and take it out. Then insert it into your computer.

Step 2: Click the button below to download and install the data recovery software.

Step 3: Open the software, select your SD card and start scanning it.

Step 4: Once the scan is complete, you can save the found photos to another storage device.

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