Lucky for him it was a Sony. Thanks to Android 10 and file encryption on every file, it is now impossible to restore deleted videos/pictures/files on any Android device:
Considering the amount of personal data on people’s phones, plus how commonly people lose them in public, I would say that encryption by default is unambiguously a good thing, and it’s incredible that it took Google until Android 10.
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