Recovering deleted sent images

[Android Central Question]

I switched from an LG 5 to LG 6 and during this process the "sent images" data was deleted, in away that the folder is empty. Is there any way to recover the images?
I know that I can use chat recover, but will it bring back the photos? It's a 40 mb file while the photos were at least s few gigsbites

 

[Rukbat]

No, the pictures are saved on the phone as pictures, messages are saved in a database. If you don't still have the 5, you can't. If you have it, copy the pictures from it to a PC or upload them to a cloud account (or see it they're at Google Photos), then copy them back to the 6.