How to Recover Deleted Telegram Chats, Messages & Photos

"This morning, I accidentally deleted one of my chats with my friend in Telegram on my phone. The conversation includes some pictures. Now I wish to restore the chat. I have tried to find a solution online but failed. So, I am wondering if it is possible to recover deleted chats, messages & photos from Telegram app. If yes, please tell me how."

Is it possible to recover deleted Telegram messages & photos?

Telegram is one of most popular messaging application that owns a large number of users. With it, you can send messages, photos, videos , doc (zip, RAR). But sometimes, the chats or messages in Telegram can be mistakenly deleted or get lost due to some other reasons. When it happens unexpectedly, you will find how difficult it is to recover deleted Telegram messages since Telegram doesn't offer you a data recovery solution to retrieve your conversation. But it doesn't mean Telegram data recovery is impossible. In this page, we collected 3 possible ways to recover deleted photos, messages in Telegram app. You can read on to get the details.

Three possible ways to recover deleted Telegram messages & photos

Recover deleted photos from Telegram images folder

The first and easiest method to recover deleted Telegram photos is to find them in the "Telegram Images" folder. When you receiving a picture from Telegram, it will be saved in the "Telegram Images" folder on your memory card or internal memory of your phone. Those pictures will not be deleted from the folder even you deleted them from Telegram chat directly.

Recover deleted Telegram photos from cache folder

The second way is to recover deleted Telegram chats from the cache folder in which stored all the messages, images, videos and other files in the deleted conversations. To do this, in the external SD card in your phone, go for "Android" folder > "data" folder > "org.telegram" folder > "cache" folder. Open it and then you will find all the images deleted from the Telegram conversations.

As you can see, the above two free ways mentioned above are both helpful to retrieve deleted photos from Telegram app.

Recover deleted files with Android data recovery software

Here, if you want to recover deleted files of other types like text messages, contacts, documents, pictures, video files, etc on your Android devices, we recommend you to try EaseUS Android data recovery software. You can download the free trial version to free scan for your deleted files. And if you make sure you find your target files, you can purchase a license code to retrieve them back. Otherwise, you won't pay for it. Please note that the application is not available to recover Telegram data.

Step 1. Connect your Android device to computer, launch EaseUSAndroid data recovery software, and then click "Start" button to make the software recognize and connect your device.

NOTE: As the software can only access the rooted Android device, you need to make sure that your phone or tablet has been rooted before data recovery.

Step 2.After connecting your Android device, the software will quickly scan the device to find all the lost data. You can easily find the files you want by choosing the correct file types.

Step 3. Preview and select out the files you want and click "Recover" button to retrieve and save them to your computer. Here "Only display deleted items"option to list the deleted files only.