Summary: This blog offers methods to recover deleted photos app pictures for Mac OS X. This post discusses user issues regarding lost photos from Photos App and provides the best solutions to restore the missing pictures from Mac OS X.
“I updated my MacBook pro. After this, I opened my MacBook and realized that almost all my photos from the Photo App had disappeared (years of photos). I don’t use iCloud and I don’t have a time machine back-up. How do I get the photos back?”
Your photos are undeniably important. Even the thought of losing them makes you uncomfortable. Hence, to keep them safe and organized, you use Photos App in your Mac OS X. However, you may lose access to your precious pictures due to accidental deletion or some other system error. Accidental photos deletion is so common that we decided to find some effective methods to recover such deleted pictures from the Photos app.
There are two methods to get back your photos. If your photos have been deleted from Photos App, you can recover them from the app itself. However, in case you deleted pictures from your Mac hard drive or other storage media, use the best Mac photo recovery tool to recover deleted pictures on Mac.
The Photos App enables you to easily store and manage photos and videos in Mac OS. If you accidentally deleted pictures on the Photos App, you can recover the pictures from the app itself. Just follow the given steps:
If you accidentally deleted pictures in Photos App, you can recover the pictures from the application itself. The Photos App enables you to easily store and manage photos and video in Mac OS. In case of accidental deletion from this app, you can restore the photos by following the given steps:
Once done, exit the ‘Recently Deleted’ section.
Note: The images get permanently deleted from Recently Deleted album in Photos App after 30 days from the initial photos removal. Also, if there is no space available on the disk, the pictures might be deleted before the estimated duration.
If you are not able to restore photos from your Photos app, you may have lost them from the hard drive itself. In such cases, it is always safer to opt for the best Mac Photo Recovery tool like Stellar Photo Recovery. This DIY (do-it-yourself) software can retrieve accidentally deleted, lost, formatted pictures, videos, audios and other multimedia files from Mac OS X. The software can restore data from MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac mini, Mac Pro, etc. You can find deleted photos on Mac and get them back even from Time Machine, camera memory cards, and other Mac-based storage devices, etc. To re-gain access to your photos, follow the given steps:
Note: Stop using the drive from which you lost your pictures, else it will overwrite the space and reduce your chances of photo recovery.
Caution: Avoid saving the retrieved pictures in the affected drive or PC. Use an external storage media or cloud storage for keeping your photos safe.
It’s always better to have backup of all your essential data to avoid data loss due to accidental deletion or other reasons. However, in case of no back-up, when you lose your important pictures from Photos App in Mac OS X, you can easily restore them from the app itself. Search for the missing pictures in the “Recently Deleted” album, select the ones you want to retrieve and save. In case you lost pictures from your Mac hard drive, you can use a powerful Mac data recovery tool such as Stellar Photo Recovery for Mac to recover them.
Sumona is a tech blogger, avid photographer, & technogeek with vast experience in writing about media file recovery tips and tutorials. She has over 10 years of experience in media file recovery/media file repair technology. She is passionate about Photography, Creative Designing, Music, and Exploring lesser-known destinations.
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I have an old Mac computer and it has iPhotos app instead of Photos app. Is photo recovery possible from the iPhotos app?
Before 2015, Mac computers came with the iPhoto app instead of the Photos app. So, to perform photo recovery on Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks or older, you need to install the latest version of Stellar Photo Recovery software on your old Mac computer. Scan the drive and look for the deleted photos. Then, select the photos you want to recover and choose the recover option to recover back.
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Hi Rudolf, Thanks for sharing your valuable feedback with us!
I deleted my photos in Sierra over 30 days ago, There were about 19,000 photos and my time machine was corrupted. I have the old iMac and is there a way to recovery these photos.?
I think the only way is to remove the drive and have some one with the proper equipment to recover these photos. Is that correct?
I think if I download your Mac recovery software it will write over the photos. I am on a new iMac at this time writing this note.
I would appreciate any help on this problem.
Hi SG, You can try our software Stellar Mac Photo Recovery demo version and see the preview of accidentally deleted photos. In case the issue will not resolve you can email support[@]stellarinfo.com or call +1-877-778-6087. Our Support team will help you to resolve your issue.