How to Recover Snapchat Photos and Videos on Android Phone

You've probably heard about Snapchat, which was ranked the third most popular social app among millennial, trailing only Facebook and Instagram. If you're new to and confused by the self-destructing photo and video app, you're in luck! Keep reading to learn more about Snapchat and how it works.

What is Snapchat and how does it work?

Snapchat is a mobile messaging application used to chat with friends through photos, videos, text, and drawings. It is free to download the app and free to send messages, which has become hugely popular in a very short space of time, especially with young people. One of the most unique things about Snapchat is the "Self-destructing" feature for photos: the picture is instantly deleted from the recipient's phone after a few seconds.

It is simple to use. You can take a picture using your camera, select recipients from your contacts, decide how long you want the message to be visible for (up to 10 seconds), and click send. For the recipient, the process is very like getting a text message, simply tape to view a snap. Also, the message disappears from their phone once the time limit has expired.

Snapchat photos and videos can be retrieved after being deleted, here's how to do it:

The growing popularity of Snapchat can be attributed to the promise that texts and photos sent via the app were only temporary, disappearing from existence after a few seconds. But what if you want to view the funny pictures again? How to access or recover the expired photos in Snapchat? In actuality, although the Snapchat messages disappear from your Snapchat app, they are never deleted from your phone. Here are several ways you can use to recover Snapchat photos and videos from Android phone.

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Method 1: Using Android File Manager

Even if the messages disappear from your Snapchat app, they are stored on your Android device's memory with a .nomedia extensive, which seems like the photos and videos do not exist as they are deleted. If you wish to recover Snapchat messages from your Android phone, you need to rename the files so that the .nomedia extension can be removed. You can use a File Manager app for Android like Astro File Manager, OI File Manager or File Expert to find the deleted data and recover Snapchat pictures and videos.

Method 2: Using Dumpster App

Dumpster works as the recycle bin on your Android phone, which gives you the ability to recover accidentally deleted content including images, vids, audio, pdf, zip, mp3, mp4, ppt, doc, avi, mpg, jpg, rar and all common file types. You can use this app to retrieve deleted photos and videos on your Snapchat. There is no need to root your Android device.

1. Download the Dumpster app from Google Play Store and install it on your Android mobile device.
2. Open Snapchat. Then go to the Dumpster app where you can find the snap photos or videos.

Method 3: Using Android Snapchat Recovery Tool 

If you cannot find Snapchat photos or videos on your Android phone with the Dumpster app, you can try some data recovery tools that are used to recover deleted or lost photos. Here FoneGeek Android Snapchat Recovery is recommended. It is an easy-to-use and powerful tool to recover deleted Snapchat photos and videos from Android devices.

     

1. Download, install and run the FoneGeek Android Snapchat Recovery software on your computer. Click on "Data Recovery" and connect your Android to the computer via USB cable. 
2. Once the phone is connected, select the type of files you need to recover and click "Next". Then choose "Standard Mode" or "Advanced Mode" and click "Start" to begin scanning. 
3. When the scan is complete, you can preview all found photos and videos one by one. Then choose those you want and click "Recover" to recover old Snapchat photos/videos on Android. 

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