How to Recover Deleted or Lost Data from iPhone iPad iPod

iPhone/iPad/iPod Data Recovery

By Selena KomezUpdated on September 20, 2018

[Summary]: Have you ever lost personal data on your iPhone/iPad/iPod device? This page tells you a three easy ways to recover lost or deleted data (contacts, SMS, photos, videos, call logs, WhatsApp messages, notes, etc.) from iPhone, iPad and iPod by U.Fone iPhone data recovery.

How many times did you feel regret to have not backed up of your iOS device after losing data accidentally. If the answer is “several times already”, this article is for you. For most person, the common way to backup iOS device is iTunes sync and iCloud sync. These two backup solutions becomes very useful when you need to make your device return to its previous working order after losing data under any unexpected situations. However, how to deal with the issue that you lost data from iPhone/iPad/iPod and have no backup? Or how to restore data from iOS device if you just want to selectively recover the lost iOS data instead of getting back all the files in the backup file?

U.Fone iOS Toolkit – iPhone Data Recovery is definitely a recommended one. This smart tool can solve your problems in a few minutes. This program is a professional data recovery for iOS users,it can help you recover deleted or lost data from iPhone/iPad/iPod under any data loss cases, such as, accidental deletion, iOS system upgrade failure, iOS system jailbreak, device lost/stolen, forgot password, water damaged, factory reset, device stuck, device get broken, virus attack, etc,. The recoverable iOS data up to 19 types, including contacts, text messages, photos, videos, audio, notes, calendar, WhatsApp messages, and more. It provides you three recovery modes to retrieve iOS data in a reliable solution: directly recover from iOS device, recover from iTunes backup, recover from iCloud backup.

Let’s Conclude the Main Features of U. Fone iOS Toolkit – iOS Data Recovery
-Undelete up to 19 types of data from iOS device.
-3 iOS data recovery modes to restore deleted data on iOS device.
-Fix iOS system of iOS device to normal professionally and easily.
-Backup and restore your iPhone data on computer.
-Supports all iOS versions and devices including iOS 12 beta/11. 4 and iPhone XS/XS Max, iPhone XR and iPhone X/8.

Part 1: How to Recover Data from iPhone/iPad/iPod Directly

U.Fone iOS Toolkit – iOS Data Recovery offers three modes for you to manage your iOS data on computer safely. In the main page of program, you can see these three options are available: iPhone Data Recovery; iOS System Recovery; iOS Data Backup & Restore. For iOS data recovery, you should select the biggest one “iPhone Data Recovery”.

run ios 11 data system recovery

Step 1. Run Program and Select Mode
Download and install iOS Data Recovery on your computer.Select the function “iPhone Data Recovery“.

Step 2. Select Recovery Mode
If you hadn’t backed up your iOS device with iTunes or iCloud, you should click “Recover from iOS Device” mode, then connect your device to the computer with USB cable.

connect device to computer

Step 3. Scan and Analyze Data on Device
Click “Start Scan“, the program will begin to scan and analyze the data from your device, including the lost one and the existent one.

scan device for lost data

The scanning result will be listed in groups. If you just want to get back deleted data, switch on “Only display the deleted item(s)”.

Step 4.Preview and Recover Selected Data from Device Directly
In the last step, you can click to preview and recover selected data on computer by clicking “Recover“. Soon the data will be exported and saved to the output folder of your computer.

recover data from device

Part 2: How to Recover iPhone/iPad/iPod Data By Extracting iTunes Backup

Step 1. Run Program and Select Mode
Download the program on your computer. Run it and select “Recover from iTunes Backup File” recovery mode.

Note: Please don’t connect and sync your device with iTunes after you lost data on the device, to prevent lost data from being overwritten.

Step 2. Scan Data from iTunes Backup File
Once you enter the iTunes recovery mode, then you need is to choose the right device backup file and move to “Start Scan“.

scan itunes backup

Step 3. Preview and Extract Data from iTunes Backup File
After scanning, all the content in the iTunes backup has been displayed. All of them can be previewed and checked by program. After preview, check those you want to extract and hit to “Recover” and save them on your computer.

restore iphone data from itunes backup

Part 3: How to Recover iPhone/iPad/iPod Data By Extracting iCloud Backup

Step 1. Run Program and Select Mode
Download the program on your computer. Run it and select “Recover from iCloud Backup File” recovery mode.

Step 2. Log into your iCloud Account
Enter your iCloud ID to log in.

Step 3. Download and Extract the iCloud Backup File
Once you’ve logged in, a list of backup files will be under your iCloud account. Select the iCloud backup file that you want to extract. Then click on the “Download” button to go on.

choose icloud backup

When it’s complete, click the “Scan Downloaded” button to extract data from the selected iCloud backup file.

Select the type of files you want to recover, including “Photos” “Messages” “Contacts” and other contents, you can select all or select one of file type you want to. Then click the “Next” button to start extract data from the backup. Please make sure network connection is stable or the effort may fail.

icloud download and extract

Step 4. Scan and Recover Data from iCloud Backup File
Once the scan process is completed, you can see all iCloud backup files be scaned and displayed to you, if you want to recover lost iPhone photos from iCloud, please click “Camera Roll“, “Photo Library” “Photo Stream” option, you can preview and recover by clicking “Recover” to complete the recovery process.

recover photos from icloud