It is frustrating to experience problems during Xbox game play, but the most intrusive is to lose the captures, because the screenshots and video clips that captured while playing games record your achievements, glitches, stories with your teammates, even years ago. And the captures might be auto deleted on the Xbox network, or mistakenly deleted by yourself.
There are ways to recover the deleted Xbox captures. You may have already had a backup or not. No matter what situation you are in, here's what you can do in an emergency.
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Back in October 2023, Microsoft introduced a new change across Xbox: any capture on the Xbox network will be auto deleted after 90 days”. The first deletion should have started in January 2024, but to reduce the impacts for Xbox users that stop playing games for a while, or for other reasons, the wide purge came into effect on May 30, 2024. Then complaints of Xbox users followed.
Though Xbox claimed that a warning has been sent to users to take timely measures and avoid saves loss, and explained this deletion only happens to the captures on the network, many Xbox players reported that all the captures, including screenshots and clips on the network and from the local storage.
This seems to be the main reason why Xbox deletes all your captures, but there are also some other possible reason why your Xbox screenshots and clips are deleted:
It depends on where your Xbox captures are saved.
If you save the captures in the network, the deleted screenshots and clips are gone forever, unless you have a backup, it is not possible to recover the deleted captures from network.
If you save the captures on your local storage, in the game console, Windows PC, Android or iPhone, it is possible and easy to recover the deleted Xbox captures even without a backup, because the deleted captures won’t be erased until there is data overwriting them. But we need a professional data recovery program.
If you save the captures to an external storage device, also with a data recovering tool, we can recover.
If you upload the captures to OneDrive, just check the backups or put back from the Recycle bin if deleted recently.
With years of screenshots and clips in the Xbox, a treasure trove of personal game playing, lots of users are feeling desperate to lose those cooling moments. If you are one of these people, read on to find out 4 ways to recover your deleted Xbox captures, while learning the lessons to back up your saves properly.
Thankfully, there’s a simple way to recover your Xbox captures from a physical storage, be it on PC, the internal storage of your game console, or an external storage device, by using Cisdem Data Recovery. Actually, as long as there is a backup for the Xbox network captures on your disk, Cisdem is also able to recover the deleted saves.
Cisdem Data Recovery for Windows is a dedicated program to recover lost files from various storage device, including PC internal disk, external SSD, HDD, USB, SD Card, NAS, Linux, RAID and so on. It supports more than 1000+ types of file recovery: video, audio, document, email, archive, bookmark, photo.
It is common to have a Xbox screenshot or clip damaged, unable to open or play anymore. But Cisdem Data Recovery builds in the repair feature to fix damaged videos or photos. You can find a list of its main features as follows:
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Installed Xbox app on your Windows PC, or accessed the game console captures by reading the storage card on your computer, then deleted the captures? If you did not empty the recycle bin, you can still recover the deleted captures from recycle bin.
tips: For Xbox Windows users, you can check the Xbox captures location first, to see if the capture are still there on your local drive: C:\Users\username\Videos\Captures
Xbox allows backing up screenshots and game clips to OneDrive, also allows auto uploading future captures to OneDrive with ease. If you have backed up or enabled this auto upload feature in “My captures” on Xbox, it is easy to recover deleted Xbox captures from the OneDrive captures.
Xbox app has a great ecosystem, it is also available on mobile phones, including both iPhone and Android phone. If you want to recover the deleted Xbox clips on your mobile phone, you can check the Recently Deleted album in the photo library on your mobile device first, then put back the captures by tapping on the Recover button.
If the Xbox captures are permanently deleted from your mobile phone, you will need a professional data recovery tool for iOS or Android to recover the files. For Android users, you can use Cisdem Data Recovery as we mentioned above. For iPhone users, Cisdem also provides a solution to recover the deleted captures, with Cisdem iPhone Data Recovery.
It is an utility tool designed to recover data from iOS devices, compatible with the latest iOS versions and iPhone modes. Built in 3 modes, iPhone users can recover the lost data from iPhone directly, from iCloud backup or a third-party backup. It has additional features that helps fix iOS system issues and backup & restore WhatsApp. You need to install and run the program on a desktop or laptop.
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It is a fact now that Xbox will auto delete your game captures on the network after 90 days, but as long as you back up the captures, Xbox won’t be able to delete all your captures, especially those you value a lot.
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