When you delete stuff from your phone (pictures, videos etc.) where does all that data go?

Question

When you delete stuff from your phone (pictures, videos etc.) where does all that data go?

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Answer 1

It doesn’t go anywhere, if you’ve ever used whiteout when you needed to ‘erase’ a mistake in your writing, that’s what delete does to data. It just covers it with a layer that basically says you can write over this area. Data recovery software just attempt to do this but in reverse.