Permanently Delete Photos on Android Phone without Recovery

Why We Need to Delete Photos on Android Phone Permanently

Nowadays, we are living in the Internet era. We can share anything with the people around the world. It's not uncommon to take photos everyday. We like to share funny and interesting thing with other people, living around us or not. However, we still have our little secrets hiding under the pictures. Have you ever encounter some situations like that: want to buy a new phone but don't know how to deal with the data on the old android phone,or want to donate or give it away to a friend but worry about they finding out the little secrets, or decide to sell it but afraid someone else can recover the deleted photos. 

These things happen all the time with the changeable society.Therefore, we need to guarantee the photos we deleted cannot be recovered. The following two ways are provided to wipe the photos or other data permanently.

Part 1: Permanently Delete Photos from Android by Factory Reset

If you want to delete not only the photos but also all the data on your Android phone, then the built-in Factory Reset will be a good help. Before doing the factory reset, you should encrypt your phone, which will decrease the opportunity of recovery.

Step 1: Go to the Settings app.
Step 2: Tap on Security.
Step 3: At the bottom of the screen, you will see the option of Encrypt device. Tap on it and start encrypting your data.

After encrypting, the next step is to do the factory reset.

Step 1: Go to the Settings app.
Step 2: Find and tap the Backup and reset.
Step 3: Scroll down and you will see the Factory data reset, tap it and it will erase all of the data on your device. If needed, enter your PIN.

After it finished, your phone will restart and perform in a clean state. And your photos are deleted permanently from the Android phone. Here is an unnecessary step, you can download the fake data as much as you can to fill the storage of the phone after factory reset. And then, repeat the steps above. You can repeat these steps constantly until you feel safe of your phone. The new data will overwrite the older one, which is harder to get your real data.

Part 2: Permanently Delete Photos from Android by Mobile Privacy Eraser

If you feel difficult to operate the steps mentioned above, Jihosoft Mobile Privacy Eraser is strongly recommended to simplify the procedures. It only needs a few steps to complete its process. It is the best privacy eraser to help you permanently delete photos on Android phone. Besides, this software specializes in not only deleting photos, but also contacts, call logs, messages, videos and so forth.

There are a few easy steps to permanently delete photos on Android phone:

Step 1: Install and run Jihosoft Mobile Privacy Eraser on your PC.
Step 2: Connect your Android device to computer via USB cable and enable the USB debugging.
Step 3: Choose the erase type depending on your need. After its scan finishes, mark the Photos and select the erasing algorithms you want to use. 

Note: The higher the level, the less chance you can find your photos back after deleting them.
Step 4: Type “Erase” in the blank of the pop-up dialog to confirm the process of the deletion.

Then we finish! Pretty easy, huh? Your photos are gone for good now.