How to Recover Encrypted Photos from SD card

Hey All,
I encrypted my external microSD card on my Samsung Galaxy S4 (Android Version 4.4.2) and then I formatted it. After formatting it, I ran it through a recovery program and realised that the encrypted photos were accessible for recovery. As a second test, I took a new photo, encrypted my external microSD card, formatted the card, then ran it through the recovery program and found that the new photo I took was also retrievable.
How come encrypted photos can still be retrieved? And is it worth it encrypting my files if they're so easily accessed like this?
Thanks!
                                                                        - Original Post from Android Forums

Photos are saved in digital form in various data storage devices. One of the most popularly used data storage device is SD card and most of the people save their photos in SD card as it offer safer storage, portability and quick access. One can also encrypt the photos saved in SD card. There are various third party application and software that can help you to encrypt photos and SD card.

Encryption is used to avoid unauthorized access of data. Only the person having password or key, can decrypt and access the data. But sometimes encrypted SD card gets inaccessible due password forgot or it gets corrupted dues various reasons and hence you cannot access your encrypted SD card as well as photos stored within it.

Reasons responsible for the loss of photos from Encrypted SD cards are:

Trying to access encrypted SD card by providing wrong password several times, which is one of the reasons that can corrupt encrypted SD card.

• Using the same encrypted SD card on several devices like mobile, digital camera, camcorders or on virus infected device can damage its file system and makes the card inaccessible.
• Other reasons like formatting the encrypted SD card, improperly ejecting SD card, taking photos when there is no free memory, etc can turn your encrypted SD card corrupt that result in photo loss.
• In any of the above mentioned scenarios, users lose their precious photos from encrypted SD card. 

But you should not worry at all. With the help of Photo Recovery software, you can easily get back photos from encrypted SD card.

Also Read: How to Fix “Blank SD Card or Has Unsupported File System” Error

Encrypted SD Card Photo Recovery Software

Photo Recovery which is available for both Windows and Mac users, is the most suitable and it is strongly recommended software that can help you to retrieve back photos from SD card that is encrypted or protected by password. 

This software can restore almost all formats of photos such as jpg/jpeg, png, gif, bmp, psd, etc. Besides images, it also restores videos as well audio file formats.  It can recover files from all memory cards and brands such as SD, miniSD, microSD, SDHC, SDXC, CF, MMC, XQD and other flash memory card.

So, what are you waiting for just download and install Photo Recovery and recover photos from encrypted SD card.