Delete photos and videos
You can delete photos and videos:
- Just from your phone’s storage.
- From both your phone’s storage and your Google account backup
TipKeep the photos but free your phone storage. You can schedule automatic deletion of photos from your phone if they’re backed up to your Google account.
From the 
Camera app
- Touch the photo thumbnail (right of
). Do one of the following:
- To delete it from your phone’s storage and your Google account backup, touch
. (If you don't see the icon, touch the screen first.) - To delete it only from your phone’s storage, touch
> Delete from device.
- To delete it from your phone’s storage and your Google account backup, touch
From the 
Photos app
From the list of thumbnail photos:
- To select one item, touch & hold it.
- To select multiple items, touch & hold the first one, then touch the others.
Do one of the following:
- To delete it from your phone’s storage and your Google account backup, touch .
- To delete it only from your phone’s storage, touch > Delete from device.
- To delete it from your phone’s storage and your Google account backup, touch
Recover deleted photos and videos
If you automatically back up photos to your Google account, you have some time to recover deleted items. When you delete a photo or video, it’s moved to the Trash in the Photos app for several weeks, before being deleted forever.
To recover a photo or video:
- Open the Photos app.
- Touch Library > Trash.
- Touch & hold the photo or video.
- Touch Restore.
If you don’t back up photos to your Google account, to maximize use of your phone’s internal storage space, there’s no undo. Once you delete something from your phone’s storage, it’s gone. You can try using a third-party app to recover recently deleted photos or videos.
Fix an issue
If you’re having issues, try these troubleshooting steps.