Recover iPhone X/8/7 Data Lost after Restoring to Factory Settings

Retrieve iPhone Data Lost after Restoring to Factory Settings

By Selena KomezUpdated on October 17, 2017

“Can anyone help me? I need to recover the lost data on my iPhone X. I did the factory settings when it crashed while I was playing the game on it. Now all the data were gone. But I heard that the wiped data can be restored by some tool. Is it possible? I want to get back the contacts and photos that haven’t backup. How to perform it?”

It’s a frequent case that there is something wrong with your iPhone X/8/7 and you have to restore the device to factory settings.Performing factory reset on iPhone can be a helpful way to fix a crashed device, however this operation will erase all data and settings on device, the iPhone will be empty after performing factory reset. It seems that all data will gone, it is hard to recover the lost data normally. Actually, you can get back the lost data on iPhone after restoring to factory settings with some professional tools. For example, iPhone Data Recovery. This article will guide you two ways to restore iPhone X/8/7 data lost after restoring to factory settings.

Recover iPhone Data Lost due to Restore to Factory Settings

iPhone Data Recovery is a specially designed utility tool for iPhone helps in restoring data from device directly, recovering data with iTunes backups and recovering data with iCloud backups on iPhone. The program enables to recover several types of iPhone data including contacts, text messages, photos, videos, notes, call logs, apps, WhatsApp messages and more. iPhone Data Recovery allows to recover iPhone data lost due to restore to factory settings. Additionally, it empowers to recover data on iPhone after losing data under any data loss circumstances, such as, deleted by mistake, iOS update, iOS jailbreak, device lost/broken, etc,. All models of iPhone are compatible with iPhone Data Recovery, such as, iPhone X, iPhone 8, iPhone 7, iPhone 6S/6, iPhone 5S/5C/5.

Part 1: Recover Lost Data from iPhone Directly after Restoring to Factory Settings

Step 1.Run Program and Select Recovery Mode
First of all, please run the iPhone Data Recovery on the computer. Connect your iPhone X/8/7 to the computer. In the main interface of program, select “Recover from iOS Device” mode. Proceed by clicking the “Start” button.

connect iphone to the computer

Step 2.Select File to Scan by iPhone Data Recovery
In the next window, select the files you need to restore from iPhone directly, such as, contacts, messages. Then clicking “Next” button to go on.

select file to recover

Step 3.Scan Lost Data from iPhone X/8/7
Now the program will begin to scan the lost data from iPhone X/8/7.

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Step 4.Preview and Restore Lost Data from iPhone X/8/7
The recoverable files will be shown in the interface of software when the scanning is completed. You can mark the lost files by selecting “Show only deleted files” option. Press the “Recover” button to recover selected lost data from iPhone X/8/7.

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Part 2: Recover Lost iPhone Data after Restoring to Factory Settings with iTunes Backup

Step 1.Choose the iTunes Backup File and Scan
Run iPhone Data Recovery and choose the second mode “Recover from iTunes Backup” mode.Connect iPhone X/8/7 to the computer.Choose the backup file you want and click “Scan”.

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Step 2.Preview and Restore Lost iPhone Files with iTunes Backup
A few seconds will be taken to scan your iTunes backup files.And you are allowed to preview all the content from the backup files.Choose the files you want and click “Recover” to complete the recovery.Then save the data to the computer or device.

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