Facebook is one of the most popular social media platforms globally, millions of users are engaging via web app on a computer or application on their mobile devices. In the event that you mistakenly delete photos from your Facebook account, don’t be panic, there is still possibility of recovering it, no matter it is permanently deleted or moved to Trash within 30 days.
However, it is essential to bear in mind that the way how you recover the deleted Facebook photos will be contingent upon if you have a back up or not. In this guide, we will look at several ways to recover both permanently deleted and recently deleted Facebook photos, on Windows & Mac computer, and on iPhone & Android.
Facebook employs a policy to auto delete photos after a span of 30 days from its Trash folder, if you have moved the photos or posts containing the photos to Trash and not exceeding 30 days, you should check the Trash folder first to restore:
Once the photos are permanently deleted on Facebook, there is no built-in method to recover them within the app, but luckily, for the reason that we often upload photos to Facebook from our computer or mobile device, there may be a backup for the deleted photos. Even though you don’t keep the backup any more, we still have solutions to make the retrieval feasible.
For Windows and Mac users, if you’ve deleted the Facebook photos from your device permanently, or you deleted them years ago and you don’t know where to restore, just use a professional data recovery program to scan thoroughly on your device and dig deep into every corner to get the files back, for example, Cisdem Data Recovery.
There are several key reasons why Cisdem Data Recovery is our favorite Facebook photo recovery software. It can restore nearly all kinds of image format (JPG/JPEG, TIFF/TIF, PNG, BMP, GIF, PSD, CRW, CR2, NEF, SVG, DWG, etc.), and from every kind of device, including Windows PC, Mac, SD Card, Memory Card, USB, HDD, SSD, Fusion Drive, Digital Camera, media player, etc. Not only can Cisdem recovery deleted, formatted and lost photos, it can also repair corrupted images in JPG, PNG and other formats.
In addition to photo-friendly features, Cisdem offers impressive tools, it can load search record to resume previous recovery work, it repairs videos in batch, it creates drive backup image to recover files from drive image, it filters and preview files, it repairs documents like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and it can save recovered files to local drive, or cloud platforms like iCloud, DropBox, OneDrive, Google Drive, pCloud, Box.
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If you have a habit of backing up files on Windows or Mac using the built-in utilities, it will be much easier to recover a deleted photo from Facebook.
In the case that you use File History to back up the files on your Windows PC to an external storage device, you can restore the deleted Facebook photos as follows:
On a Mac, users can use Time Machine to backup and restore files, as long as they have enabled and set up the backup. Here are the steps for Facebook photos recovery on Mac with backup:
Or if you have backed up files to cloud storage platforms like iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive or others, you can log in and transfer the photos to a device as you like, if you cannot locate the files, don’t forget to check the Trash folder and restore.
It is much likely that you will use Facebook app on a mobile device, like iPhone or Android, even though you have deleted the photos from Facebook, there may be a copy of the photo in your Photos app or gallery. In the case that you cannot restore the photos from recently deleted folder on your phone, we also have advanced solutions to retrieve your photos.
If you upload photos to Facebook on an iPhone or Android phone, but cannot find them in the photos app, your best hope is to check the recently deleted folder.
Open Photos app, go to Albums > Other Albums > Recently Deleted. 
Select the deleted photos by tapping on them, Tap Recover. 
What if you cannot find the deleted Facebook photos on iPhone or Android phone? Don’t worry, deleted files will remain on the phone or the memory card until they get overwritten by new data. As soon as you realize you've deleted the photos, you should use a professional data recovery program to recover deleted files from iPhone or Android phone.
FoneLab is one of the most popular iPhone Data Recovery applications out there, it supports all iPhone, iPad and iPod models. It is capable of recovering deleted items (messages, photos, contacts, call history, notes, voice memos, calendar, etc.) from iOS device, iTunes or iCloud backup, under all data loss situations. The recovery process is streamlined: connect > scan >recover.
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EaseUS MobiSaver for Android works with 6000+ Android phones and tablets to help you recover messages, contacts, photos, music, videos and others from both internal memory and SD Card. It is compatible with nearly all smartphone brands, including Samsung, Google, Sony, Huawei, LG, ZTE, etc. It also allows users to preview details of a recoverable item, and export contacts in CSV, HTML, VCF, etc.
We’ve listed several methods to recover deleted photos from Facebook, no matter it was deleted years ago or permanently delete, we can use backup or professional tools to retrieve the deleted items. A dedicated data recovery app makes file recovery easier and it just runs quietly on your device to dig out the deleted items fast. Not backing up data is one of the common reasons to make file recovery complicated, therefore, always back up files to external device or cloud.
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