Eli5; Where exactly do our pictures go when deleted from phone?

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Eli5; Where exactly do our pictures go when deleted from phone?

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Answer 1

With anything digital, deleting a file simply tells the operating system that the memory addresses that held the file are now available for general use. So if you haven’t done anything else with the device, the picture is still likely in memory, but it’s just not accessible via the operating system. But as you save stuff on the device, the space that held the file may be overwritten.