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. Just like deleting stuff on your computer, the operating system simply changes the memory addresses the data is in as available to be overwritten. The data is still there at first, just not accessible without some unique tools. And future data writing is now allowed to write over it.