How to Recover Snapchat Photos and Videos from Android Phone?

Snapchat has always been known as an image messaging and multimedia mobile application. And “photos disappear within a limited time” features the app and appeals tons of people’s attractions. Such kind of photostream is so interesting and creative than most people can’t help posting photos and video up there. Although some users don’t care about the missing photos and videos, others would like to save them on the mobile phone. This post will tell you how to keep the photos or videos you like and how to recover the disappeared ones from your Android phone?

Also Read: How to Recover Deleted Photos from Samsung Galaxy Phone

Method 1: Retrieve Snapchat photos and videos through screenshots

The easiest way to save Snapchat photos is no doubt taking a screenshot with your Android phone. You should be aware of that when you make a screenshot of others’ photos, they would be notified. If you have screenshots of the disappeared photos and video, you’re allowed to recover them via Gihosoft Android data recovery freeware. The software is free to download, after you downloaded it, launch it and follow the below steps to retrieve them from the Android phone.

Step 1. Select “photos” and “videos” and proceed with a click on “Next”.

Step 2. Connect your Android mobile phone to PC.

NOTE: The software can only access the rooted Android device, you need to make sure that your phone has been rooted before recovery. Refer to: how to root Android.

Step 3. Scan and analyze the lost Snapchat data. 

Step 4. Preview and restore disappeared photos and videos in Snapchat on Android.

Method 2: Recover lost Snapchat photos and videos from the default folder

When talking about recovering lost photos from Android, it would bother those who are not in the know of the Snapchat secret. The vanished Snapchat photos can be found in a particular folder inside on our Android phone. All received files usually end in being saved in .nomedia-- an extension that makes them 'invisible'. Here is the path where Snapchat data is stored: com.snapchat.android > cache > received_image_snaps.

Note: The more you use your Android phone, the more likely it is that the Snapchat pictures or video stored there get overwritten and lost everlastingly.

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