Deleted a file on your Redmi? Check the Files by Google bin

Start with the app that removed the file

These steps are for Files by Google with the Bin feature available. They are not a Xiaomi File Manager or Gallery menu route, and this guide does not assume Files by Google is installed on every Redmi.

I'd first ask: which app was open when I deleted the item? That small detail is more useful than tapping through every storage setting. If it was Files by Google, start below. If it was Google Photos, use the separate photo check further down.

Restore the file and check it opens

1. Open Files by Google. Tap Menu at the top left, then Bin. Depending on the app language, you may see Trash instead.

2. Select the file you want to recover, tap Restore at the bottom and confirm Restore.

3. Find the restored item in your files and open it. I'd check the contents, not just the filename, before treating the recovery as finished.

Files removed from the bin are permanently deleted. Google's guidance also says the Clean menu's Junk files card deletes items permanently rather than sending them to this bin. The 30-day window is therefore not a recovery promise for every cleanup action.

If it was a photo in Google Photos

Open Google Photos, then Collections and Bin. Touch and hold the photo or video you want and choose Restore. Google says restoration is available only while the item remains in that bin; permanently deleted items cannot be restored there.

I'd check the app I actually used before concluding that a missing item is gone. An empty Files by Google bin answers a narrower question than whether a photo is still in Google Photos.

Keep the next cleanup deliberate

Before clearing an app's data to investigate a missing file, read my clear cache versus clear storage guide. I'd avoid adding another deletion to a recovery problem.

Once an important file opens correctly, I'd make a separate copy somewhere I can verify. A bin with an expiry date would not be my only plan for keeping it.