Delete or restore your photos & videos

If you have turned on Back up and Sync, photos and videos you delete will stay in your trash for 60 days before they are deleted forever. Learn how to plow on Support and Sync.

Tip: To move all your photos to a unlike business relationship, share your photo library with that account.

Before y'all delete photos & videos

Delete photos & videos

  1. On your computer, become to photos.google.com.
  2. Indicate at the item you want to delete. At the pinnacle left, click Select Select.
  3. At the elevation right, click DeleteDeleteand then Move to trash.

Tip: If you backed up your photo or video before you delete information technology, it will stay in your trash for sixty days.

To permanently delete photos and videos:

  1. On your reckoner, become to photos.google.com.
  2. Point at the particular you lot want to permanently delete. At the top left, click Select Select.
  3. At the top correct, click Delete permanentlyand thenDelete.

Restore photos & videos

If you desire to become a deleted item dorsum, check your trash to find out if you tin go it back. If your photo or video has already been backed up and y'all deleted it, it will remain in your Trash for 60 days.

  1. On your reckoner, go to photos.google.com.
  2. On the left, click TrashDelete.
  3. Place your cursor over the photo or video you desire to restore, and so click Select Select.
  4. At the top right, click Restore and thenRestore. That photo or video volition be restored to your Google Photos Business relationship and added back into any albums it was in.

Don't find the photograph or video?

If a deleted photo or video isn't in trash, you tin't restore it. You won't be able to restore a photograph if:

  • Y'all moved information technology to trash more threescore days ago.
  • Y'all moved it to trash, then emptied your trash.
  • You permanently deleted it from your trash.
  • You permanently deleted it from your device's Gallery app without backing information technology upward first.

To find and recover photos hands, turn on Back up and Sync.

Important: If your Google Photos account is inactive for 2 years or you lot're over your storage limit, your content may be impacted.Learn more about this.

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