Aleksandr Snyhir
Good day
About a month ago I attempted to enter Russia though the Shermetevo Airport (Moscow) with a Ukrainian passport. Before the journey I completely wiped out unneeded information from my mobile phone.
The vast majority of photos I had in Google photo. When I deleted the photos, they arrived in a bin, and when I deleted them in the bin, Google gave me a message that “they were permanently deleted and cannot be restored.” In Shermetevo I was denied, they asked and then I saw that a part of those photos from Google were somehow restored.
Please share if you had a similar experience with Google photo in particular, when Google promises the photos cannot be restored after deletion.
You know what is interesting. I can understand the restoration of recent photos, which were made with a phone that I currently have (I have renewed the phone 1.5 years ago). But they have restored data from 2019, which were uploaded into cloud from another phone. That is, there cannot be a mention of these photos on the phone because they exist in the cloud but were deleted already a year ago. I hope I explained it clearly. 😆
This is the problem, it was not publicly accessible on the internet, if that is what you mean. The photos were preserved on the phone at the application Google Photo, these are hidden, private data. So only I had an access to them and after I tried to completely delete them (for instance from gallery) they managed to restore them after all.
I am simply trying to understand this situation, how does this system work so I do not repeat the same mistake next time I try to enter. Is it a problem with Google Photo, and has anybody encountered a similar problem?
Insomniac Resurrected 