To recover deleted photos or videos from Photo Library on Mac, you may have to take a few steps: Open the Photos app on your Mac. On the left-side panel of the Photos app find and click Recently Deleted album. Select the files you’d like to recover. You can recover one file or several files at the same time. Having chosen the files for recovery, click Recover in the upper right corner of the app window. Make sure that the recovered files have appeared in the corresponding directories of your Photo Library. Remember that files can be stored in Recently Deleted album for some time before they are finally removed from your library.