Andrew Bonwick
Vice President of Product Development at Relm Insurance
Madhav Sheth
CEO of Ai+ Smartphone
Stephen Rose
CEO Render Networks


Owned by the American business Meta Platforms, WhatsApp is a centralised instant messaging service that is accessible worldwide. It enables users to share images, documents, user locations, audio and video calls, text and voice messages, voice and video messaging, and other stuff. But frequently because of a lack of storage, users have a tendency to delete large WhatsApp files, which results in the loss of many significant images and videos.
In this article we will take a look at some methods by which users can restore deleted images and videos.
Phone’s Gallery
By default, WhatsApp stores all of the images and videos to the phone gallery. Therefore, the pictures will be preserved in the device gallery, Google Photos, or Photos for iOS even if you sent the media and erased it from the chat.
WhatsApp Media Folder
Only Android users have the option to restore WhatsApp media from the media folder.
Launch the file explorer programme. Go to the root directory’s WhatsApp folder. Now navigate to the media folder and choose the WhatsApp Images folder. All of the received images are contained in this folder. You can find the deleted photo or other files by going to the sent folder.
Restoring WhatsApp Backup From Google Drive or iCloud
WhatsApp backs up messages and media to iCloud for iOS users and Google Drive for Android users. You can retrieve the media files if they were removed after the daily backup by restoring the backup from iCloud or Google Drive on your smartphone. To restore a backup: