Hello I just woke up today I wanted to upload a picture and realised my gallery was blank I don't know what's happend so I went to recycle bin and restored everything but the only think that came back was my recycled pictures that I dont want so where are my pictures. Here is what I did yesterday I ha e a samsung s23 ultra I also have s21 that I don't use but I set it up once when I was going to use it as a second phone when traveling so I transfered most data over that I can due ti the memory on s21 is not as big as my s23 anyway I have have that for maybe 6 months in the draw un used and yesterday I decided I would trade my my s21 to pre order the new Samsung flip ans rather then trading my s23 ultra I thought I would keep.that as a second phone and trade in the s21 so I did factory reste and boxes it up.ready to ship to Samsung when my new phone arrived next week and today I woke up ans no gallery pictures so I would like to know we're they connected as this has never happend before as I have done the factory reset many times when selling my phones or trading up can anyone shed some.light on this ? Secondly a week ago I rwmeber deactivating my Google drive pictures as I found out there was pictures on the Google pictures that I didn't know they had so i deleted old pics and deactivating one drive and Google pictures from my Google accounts as I realise dthey were storing pictures and videos that I deleted from my gallery so both one drive and Google pictures need sign in as they are off and this was over one week ago and was no issues with my phoen gallery so those are the 2 things I can think of to what happend.to my gallery please help and how I can restore them. Cheers
I am going through this now as well. I looked in the DCIM folder and the trash bin as suggested on Google. They are not there. They are all in the Google photos app but I don't want them there as it doesn't like to various social media sites for sharing. It feels like I'm gonna have to screen shot everything out of there to get them back where I want them
