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

When you delete a file from your computer, the operating system usually just marks the space the file occupies on the ssd or hdd as being available for writing. The data itself remains on the disk until eventually new data will be written into that particular space where your image was.