Smart clean deleted all of my photos, is there a way to restore them?

[Android Central Question]

I had over 1500 pics on my phone and sd card and the smart clean deleted EVERYTHING can i get it all back

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Which phone? Was this a native Smart Clean feature that came with the phone, or a 3rd party app? Were the photos saved to the /Download directory only, or were they taken by the Camera app and saved to /DCIM/Camera?

 

[ManiacJoe]

Also:

Were the photos JPG files or DNG/raw?
Were the photos stored on the internal storage or SD card?