DIY Mac Photo Recovery Tool
Best Mac Photo Recovery Software to Retrieve Deleted Photos
- Recovers deleted photos from Time Machine, Trash, or Photos App.
- Recovers lost photos from formatted, deleted, or inaccessible Mac drives.
- Recovers from macOS HDD, SSD, SD card, USB drive, etc.
- Compatible with M1 & T2 chip-enabled Macs.
- Supports the latest macOS Monterey 12 and lower versions.
*Download the free trial version to scan & preview your deleted photos.
Also available for Windows
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Recover Photos from Mac & Camera
Stellar Photo Recovery for Mac recovers deleted photos, videos, and audio from Mac computers, cameras, and removable media, including MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iMac, iMac Pro, Mac mini, Mac Studio, digital cameras, iPhone, Android, USB flash drives, SD Cards, Mini Disk, Zip Disk, Time Machine, and other Mac-based internal/ external drives. In addition, the macOS software supports recovery from encrypted APFS, HFS, HFS+, FAT 16, FAT32, exFAT, and NTFS storage drives.
- Storage cards, SSD & HDD — SanDisk®, Kingston®, Seagate®, Samsung®, Fusion Drive®, etc.
- Popular camera brands — Nikon®, Canon®, Sony®, Kodak®, Olympus®, etc.
- Action & Drone cameras — GoPro®, DJI®, Phantom®, Garmin®, etc.
- Large storage devices up to 18 TB
Recover All Photos, Videos, & Audio File Formats
Stellar Photo Recovery for Mac retrieves lost or deleted videos, photos, music collections, podcasts, etc., of any file format without quality loss.
- Supports all photo formats — JPEG, JPG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, PSD, EPS, etc.
- Recovers RAW camera files — CR2, ERF, RAF, K25, NEF, ORF, SR2, etc.
- Supports popular video formats — MP4, MOV, MXF, AVI, ASF, WMV, 3GP, etc.
- Recovers audio files — MP3, RPS, OGG, AT3, SND, AU, WAV, etc.
*Download the free trial version to scan & preview your deleted photos.
More Awesome Features
Recover Permanently Deleted Photos on Mac
You can easily recover images in any format by using this Mac photo recovery software. Not just lost pictures, the Mac photo recovery software also retrieves lost or deleted video files, music collections, and podcasts from a variety of devices, including — digital cameras, iPods, USB storage devices, SD cards, flashcards, Mini Disks, Zip Disks, Mac-based hard drives, volumes, and partitions.
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Mac Photo Recovery from Encrypted Drives
Mac users encrypt hard drives to protect data. The encryption on drives often presents a challenge for conventional photo recovery software. However, Stellar Photo Recovery for Mac recovers photos, videos, and audio files just as efficiently from encrypted drives and volumes as from unencrypted drives.
Disk Imaging for Quick Recovery
The Mac photo recovery software recovers deleted photos, videos, and audio files from macOS storage drives that have developed bad sectors. The disk imaging feature of the software helps to retrieve lost or deleted multimedia securely, without worrying about data loss due to drive failure. Just create a disk image for such corrupt macOS drives and run the Mac photo recovery tool on the disk image instead of the storage hardware. Recovering from a disk image is both faster and safer.
Save Scan Information & Resume Recovery
This advanced photo recovery tool for Mac lets you stop a running scan and save the scan progress up to that point in the form of a file. This scanned file can be later loaded into the software to resume recovery from the saved point. Additionally, the Resume Recovery features for Disk Image, Volume Image, and saved scan information have been optimized, with an option to display their respective screens on a single page.
Deep Scan for Better Results
The application’s advanced scanning engine quickly finds the recoverable items for most devices. However, sometimes certain files might not turn up after a normal scan. In such cases, the software does a ‘Deep Scan’ of the storage drive to recover every bit of lost or deleted media files. This feature lets the Mac photo recovery software conduct a comprehensive scan by recognizing the file header and finding out all the missing multimedia files.
Recovers Camera Specific RAW Photos
Stellar Photo Recovery for Mac facilitates safe RAW photo recovery on Mac from popular camera brands, including Nikon, Canon, Sony, Panasonic, Fuji, Olympus, Kodak, etc. It recovers lost or deleted camera RAW image files such as SR2, CR2, NEF, RAF, ERF, K25, and more. In addition, the efficient Mac photo recovery can also restore deleted iPhone/ iPad photos and videos in HEIC and HEVC file formats.
Select Specific File Type or Region for Recovery
You can scan an entire Mac drive or restrict the scope of scanning to a specific region to recover your photos, videos, and audio files. This helps save a lot of time in case you know the exact location on the hard drive or volume, where a photo or media file existed before being deleted. The files found are then available for preview and recovery. Similarly, you can instruct the software to scan the storage media for specific file types to recover only what is required.
Recovery of Unicode Files
Unicode is a character encoding standard that has widespread acceptance. The Mac photo recovery software supports the recovery of Unicode files, thus eliminating the need for a converter or any other supporting software. The exclusive feature makes the software one of the most versatile tools in the market for Unicode file recovery from Mac.
Retrieve detailed file information
Along with recovering deleted photos on Mac, this powerful product also facilitates retrieving detailed information related to the recovered files. This information includes the file name, original date timestamp, camera model/name, and resolution.
File Preview with Customized Recovery
The software shows a preview of corrupt files in safe mode, both in thumbnail view and running scan mode. You can turn on/off the file preview anytime based on your preference. Further, you can add a new file header to the list or edit an existing one, if the desired file type is not in the supported formats list.
Software Walkthrough
Step 1 : Select Location
Select from drive, volume, or external media from which you want to restore media files. Click 'Scan'.
Step 2 : Preview
Preview the recoverable files after the completion of the scanning process.
Step 3 : Recover
Select the required photos, videos, audio files and click 'Recover' to save them at a desired location.
Choose The Best Plan that Meets your Needs
Standard
Recover your memories, which are stored in photo or video formats
- Recovers Photo, Video & Music Files
- Supports All Storage Media
- Supports All Major Cameras
Professional
One tool has two different capabilities of photo recovery & photo repair
- All the features of Standard Version
- Repairs Corrupt Photos
- Extracts Thumbnails of Severely Corrupt Photos
Premium
Advance tool to recover lost photos, plus, repair corrupt/ damaged photos and videos
- All the features of Professional Version
- Repair Corrupt Videos
- Repair Multiple Videos in one go
- Supports Multiple Formats
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Stellar Photo Recovery Software is something we don't want to have to use but when we need to, it's brilliant - Highly Recommended.
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Ultimately, I'm very pleased that I have been able to recover the images and files I needed, and I highly recommend Stella Recovery.
Digital Photography School
Stellar Photo Recovery is a fantastic option for photographers and videographers looking to recover files. It’s simple to use, its performance is impeccable, and I can’t recommend it enough.
Digital Camera World
Rescue deleted images or video from any memory card or hard drive - it's no problem with Stellar Photo Recovery.
Peta Pixel
Stellar Photo Recovery is free to download, easy to install, and is a great option for people who truly went all-in on their photography, who have RAW images to process, or even took a lot of high-quality videos that they treasure.
Technical Specifications
About Product
Stellar Photo Recovery for Mac
| Version: | 11.3.0.0 |
| License: | Can use only on a single system |
| Edition: | Standard, Professional, Premium, & Technician |
| Language Supported: | English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese |
| Release Date: | May, 2022 |
System Requirement
| Processor: | Intel-compatible (x86, x64) |
| Memory: | 4 GB minimum (8 GB recommended) |
| Hard Disk: | 250 MB of free space |
| Operating System: | macOS Monterey 12, Big Sur 11, Catalina 10.15, 10.14, 10.13, 10.12 & 10.11 |
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Following are the new updates in version of Stellar's Photo recovery software.
- Software now supports data recovery on APFS Encrypted Drive.
- The support for APFS File Vault (Encrypted) Recovery is added.
- The software supports APFS Fusion Drive (Inbuilt in iMac, Non-encrypted).
- The support for scanning, preview, and recovery for Large Sectors 4K/2K Drive of APFS, HFS+, FAT32, NTFS, and EXFAT is provided.
- Similarly, the software now supports Large Sector 4K/2K Drive for Can't find Volume and Create Image feature.
- Lastly, the software is now available in the Japanese language.
You can easily recover your photos from formatted USB drive by using Stellar Photo Recovery for Mac. Just follow these simple steps.
- Connect your USB to the Mac system.
- Download, install and run Stellar Photo Recovery for Mac.
- On home screen of the software select Photos. Click Next.
- Select your USB drive from the list of drives and external media.
- Click Scan.
- Once the scanning completes, the list of found photos appear. You can select desired pictures and click Recover.
- Select destination to save the recovered photos. Click Save.
The error is displayed mostly when the card is in 'locked' position. Check to see whether your memory card is in unlocked position. Simply flick the right switch of your memory card and you can 'lock' or 'unlock' your memory card. If the card is already unlocked, then there might be corruption issue with the card. You can go for Stellar Photo Recovery Mac in that case.
Yes, you can get back deleted music files from SD card using Stellar Photo Recovery software. Simple install and run the software on your system. The software will scan the connected SD Card and recover the lost or deleted music files on your desired location.
Whenever you are unable to find your file 'format' in the list of supported file types by the software, you can edit the existing file formats or add new file types of your choice. Click here to see the steps.
This kind of issue usually gets corrected by formatting the card in the camera. However, sometimes, the reason may also be camera and card incompatibility. In that case, you should update your gear with the latest firmware. If the issue is still there, then run Stellar Photo Recovery Mac Software to recover your images.
You can create an image of entire or selected range of the hard drive or card and save it to recover photos, videos and audio files at a later stage. Follow the below steps to Create Image of the drive:
- Click on Resume Recovery icon at the top of main interface.
- Select Create Image option.
- Select the drive for which you want to create image.
- Click Advanced Settings at the bottom.
- Select the Range to Create Image. Click Next.
- Specify a location for saving the image file.
- Click Start Imaging. The image file is saved at your specified location.
To recover pictures from the Image file, perform the below steps:
- Click on Resume Recovery icon on home screen.
- Click Load Image. A Recovery from Image window opens. All image files with .img extension are listed.
- Select the image file for which you want to resume the recovery process and click Add.
- Click Scan.
- Click Recover.
- Browse location to save the recovered files. Click Save.
To recover photos from saved scan information on Mac follow the below steps:
- On home screen, click on the Resume Recovery icon. A Resume Recovery window opens. All the saved scan information files are listed.
- Select the scan information file for which you want to resume the recovery process and click Add.
- Click Recover.
- Browse location to save the recovered files. Click Save.
No. You must save the image of the drive at another location as saving the image file on the same media leads to overwriting and permanent data loss.
Yes, the new Stellar Photo Recovery supports recovery from Linux-based drives, SD cards etc.
Yes. Do not remove your media during the scan or recovery process. Detach your card or other media only after the recovery process completes.
The latest Stellar Photo Recovery 9.0 supports all known and unknown multimedia file types. The software supports recovery of lost or deleted raster images, vector files, MXF movies, HD-MOV, Adobe EPS, and RAW file formats of cameras. You can even add the new file types, if your required media file type is not in the predefined list of supported formats.
Yes, you can get back deleted photos from Canon 700D by using Stellar Photo Recovery software. Simple install and run the software on your system. The software will scan the connected drive and recover the lost or deleted photos or videos on your selected drive.
Advance Settings option in the software helps you speed up the scanning and recovery process. You can select specific file types that you want to recover. Also, reduce scanning time by choosing a specific region (starting and ending sector) rather than complete drive for scan. Read More.
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