How to Recover Deleted Photos on Mac?

Photos are the best way of remembering your special moments. They bring your old memories alive and yet people often do blunders by deleting their timeless memories by mistake. These blunders can be disastrous and heartbreaking for you.

Losing a file in Mac can be a real pain, and doubly so when you delete the most memorable pic of yours. Fortunately, it's pretty easy to recover deleted photos on Mac, especially if you realize your mistake at the earliest.

So, if you have deleted photos on Mac due to any reason and now you wanted to recover deleted photos on Mac, then right away stop using/saving new data to your Mac hard drive. This is because when you delete a photo from your Mac hard drive, only its entry is deleted from the Mac file system indicating an availability of free space. But, the photo is still present in the memory of your Mac. Hence, any new write operation can overwrite the deleted photo leading to permanent deletion of the photo file.

So, without making any delay, make use of a good Mac photo recovery tool to recover deleted photos on Mac.

Note: Check the Trash Bin and Time Machine backup drive first, before you try photo recovery tool to restore deleted photos on Mac. If, you find your deleted photos either in Trash or Time Machine backup, then restore it directly.

Best Mac Photo Recovery tool to Recover Deleted Photos on Mac:

Mac Photo Recovery software software is one of the best recovery tools, which helps you to recover deleted photos from Mac efficiently. It has the ability to recover all types of photo/image file formats (also RAW photo recovery of DSLRs) from Mac. And, from all kinds of storage media even from the camera and mobile phone's internal memory (if it appears as a drive when connected to a PC). It can even recover the whole photo library created using iPhoto, Picasa, Photoshop, Adobe and other photo management tools. Most importantly provides a preview of the recovered photos to ensure you right recovery. All this makes it the best recovery software in the market to recover deleted photos on Mac.


How to Recover Deleted Photos on Mac?

Step 1: Run Yodot Mac Photo Recovery program on your Mac (not on the volume from which you want to recover deleted photos) and click on Deleted Photo Recovery button.

Step 2: Next, select the volume from which you want to recover deleted photos on Mac and click on Next button.

Step 3: Select Picture as File Types to recover from your Mac.

Step 4: The software scans your selected Mac volume and shows all recovered photo files.

Step 5: Preview recovered photos from Mac and Save them to your desired location (not on the same volume from where photos are retrieved).

Things To Remember

  • Maintain a backup copy of your photo collection to avoid mishaps
  • Frequently transfer memory card photos to backup drive
  • Check twice before you delete any photo

Other Popular Software

Yodot Photo Recovery (Windows)

Recover and restore deleted photos lost from your digital camera memory card or the images from your Windows PC. The software can recover all popular image types including popular audio and video files.

Yodot Mac File Recovery

The only undelete application for Mac that can recover deleted files from HFS+, HFSX partitions on Mac. The software also has the ability to recover lost files using RAW signature method.