[Full Guide] How to Recover Deleted Blink Videos Quickly and Easily

Can you recover deleted Blink videos?

Surveillance videos are often reviewed after incidents, and Blink cameras are a popular choice for monitoring home and office security. However, accidental deletion of Blink clips can be frustrating. Can you recover deleted Blink videos? The answer depends on how and where the videos were stored—not on the app used, whether it's Blink’s app or a third-party one. The key factor is the type of storage: cloud or local/USB storage.

If your Blink videos were stored on Blink’s cloud, recovery is not possible. Deleting a video from the cloud is both immediate and permanent, with no way to retrieve the files. Since the data is stored on Blink’s servers, not on your personal devices, no software or customer support can help recover deleted clips.

Besides, Blink cameras have an auto-deletion feature: videos are stored for 60 days in the US or 30 days in the UK/EU before being removed automatically. This reflects Blink’s assumption that users will access needed footage quickly for evidence purposes, making older clips unnecessary.

Blink’s system also has limitations, such as requiring a Sync Module 2 for backups and only allowing Clip Backup with a Blink subscription. These restrictions can be inconvenient, but storing videos locally can change the situation.

If you store Blink videos on your own devices, it is much easier to recover deleted Blick videos. There are two ways to store videos on a USB drive: Clip Backup and Local Storage.

In both cases, deleted Blink videos can be recovered from the USB drive, making local storage a more secure option for keeping your footage. If you want to retrieve deleted videos from Blink camera with a local PC or USB, you can move the next section.

How to recover deleted Blink videos?

If your Blink videos were stored on a USB drive or local storage and accidentally deleted, recovering them might not be as straightforward as you hope. Unfortunately, the Blink app doesn’t offer a recovery option. Is there any way to recover deleted Blink videos? The answer is Yes! All you need is a powerful data recovery tool like AOMEI FastRecovery. 

Whether you need to recover files, photos, videos, audio, emails, or other types of data, AOMEI FastRecovery is the perfect solution. It supports over 1,000 file types and systems and works seamlessly with more than 2,000 storage devices. It also offers these powerful features:

✔ Recover from various data storage devices, including local PCs, portable hard disks like HDDs, SSDs, USB drives, formatted SD cards, and more.
✔ Recover data lost due to permanently deleted, formatted, viruses attack, system crashes, corruption, OS reinstalls, system misconfiguration, overwriting, or when the file system is RAW.
✔ It has a user-friendly interface. If you need any help, it offers technical support in 24/7.
✔ Easily recover unlimited data and over 1000 file types, including photos, permanently deleted videos, audio files, emails, documents, and more.
✔ Provide support for a diverse range of external hard drive brands, including but not limited to Seagate, Toshiba, Samsung, and more.
✔ Recover lost data to the original path with the same format.

Step 1. Install and launch AOMEI FastRecovery. Choose the exact partition or disk where your data is lost and click Scan.

Step 2. Then, the recovery tool starts to scan and search. lt will execute the “Quickly Scan" first to find your deleted data fast, and then execute the “Deep Scan" for searching other lost data.

Step 3. Once the scan is completed, all deleted files, recycle bins and other missing files will be displayed. Please select the file you would like to recover and then click "Recover".

Step 4. Then, select a folder path to save your recovered files.

Step 5. Wait patiently for this process of recovery to end.

To sum up

How to recover deleted Blink videos? It depends on where the videos are stored. If your videos are saved on Blink’s cloud servers, recovery isn’t an option. Blink automatically deletes videos after 30 days in the UK/EU or 60 days in the US, and once they’re gone, there’s no way to retrieve them.

However, if your videos are stored on a USB drive connected to a Sync Module 2, recovery is possible. This is where AOMEI FastRecovery can help. With its Enhanced Recovery feature, the app makes it quick and easy to recover deleted Blink videos from a USB drive in just a few steps.