How to Recover Lost/Deleted Data from iPhone/iPad/iPod

Is your iPhone / iPad / iPod missing data? Many IOS users encounter unexpected situations, leading to data loss of IOS devices, such as jailbreak, updating new IOS system, system crash, careless deletion, etc. So what's the best way to Recover Lost/Deleted Data from iPhone/iPad/iPod?

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Often in these unexpected situations, you can search the relevant questions by Google. You will find that not only one of you will encounter such a situation, most of the iOS users have met, the key is how to solve it.

Method 1: Restore iPhone Data from iTunes Backup

Method 2: Restore iPhone Files from iCloud Backup

Method 3: Retrieve lost or deleted data from iPhone with/without backup

Method 1: Restore iPhone Data from iTunes Backup

To recover iPhone files from iTunes, firstly, download and run the latest iTunes on your computer, and plug your iPhone 6s to PC to make iTunes detect your iPhone. Then click iPhone icon and select "Restore from backup...". Last, click "restore" to start the whole easy data recovery process.

Note: Restore iPhone data from iTunes backup may delete some media tracks existing on your iPhone and may overwrite your existing iPhone files.

Method 2: Restore iPhone Files from iCloud Backup

Input iCloud.com on your web and login your iCloud account. Click any data that you want to restore from iCloud. Take Contacts for instance, after getting into the contact window, click setting icon on the lower left bottom and click "Export vCard". Next, save it on your hard disk drive. Finally, you just need to send this vcf file via email and open it on your iPhone to get them back immediately.

Method 3: Retrieve lost or deleted data from iPhone with/without backup

When you flow related issues, you may notice a problem that the missing or deleted data is not really lost. They are just hidden in a corner of the iOS device, and you can't find them right away. Second, the most likely way you can see is to use the third party recovery software. Because this is the simplest and quick way.

iPhone Data Recovery can help you retrieve all kinds of data, regardless of whether your data has a backup. And it can be recovered in just a few minutes. With the help of iOS Data Recovery tools, you can freely choose to recover lost data, such as contacts, SMS, photos, videos, music, call history, WhatsApp message, and more than 20 kinds of data.More detailed introduction:

Step 1. Run the Program and Connect iOS devices to PC

Download the ios data recovery and install it on your computer. Then connect the iPhone/iPad/iPod device to PC.

Step 2. Select the File to Recover

Connect your iOS device to computer. Enter scan mode following the instruction. After scanning, all the files in your device will be shown and classified into categories. Find the file you want to recover under specific category.
The iOS Data Recovery supports 20+ data types, including WhatsApp, WeChat, Kik, photos, messages, contacts, notes and more.

Step 3. Select Destination and start to Recover

Click "…" button and select the file folder to save the recovered data. All preparations been done, you can start the recovery immediately by clicking "Recover".

Recover Lost/Deleted Photos and Videos on iOS Devices

Click "Camera Roll", "Photo Stream" and "Picture Library" in the left column to preview found images. Check those items you want and click "Recover" to save them on your computer.

Recover Deleted/Lost Contacts from iPhone Directly

Select "Contacts" in the left panel and your contacts list will be displayed in the right panel. You can choose one item to see the detailed information. The lost/deleted contacts will be displayed in red. You can turn on toggle switch to only display the deleted item(s). Check the lost/deleted items you want to recover, select CSV, HTML or VCF format you want to save your contacts list as, and then click "Recover" button to start the process.

Recover Deleted Text Messages from iPhone without Backup

After the scan process is finished. The scan result will list in the left sidebar grouped by file types. Click "Messages" item from the sidebar to preview details. Check those lost and deleted text messages you want to get back and click "Recover" button to save these lost messages on your computer as CSV, HTML format.

Tip: Check "Only display deleted item", only deleted or lost files will be displayed. This helps you quickly find the target file.