At the first time we found that we lost our important data on iPhone, we will turn to the backups for help. As long as the backup is available, you are sure to recover your data. While if you do not have backups or the backups are not available, what will you do?
First, let’s talk about how to restore iPhone data from backup.
The common data loss cases on iPhone:
Factory reset your iPhone by accident or for repair purpose.
Erase all the data on the iPhone by accident.
File corruption.
iPhone damaged or lost.
If your iPhone is still at your hand and works, you can recover your data from iCloud or iTunes backups. Compared with other methods, restoring from cloud backup is an easier way, and you can complete on your iPhone. If you do not have cloud backup, but you have synced your iPhone with iTunes, you can restore your data from iTunes backup.
Every time you sync your iPhone with iTunes, all the data and settings on your iPhone will be automatically backed up to your iTunes, and all the backup are stored on your computer. As long as you do not delete the backups from your computer, you can restore your iPhone. It will bring your iPhone back to the last backup situation, so some of new data after this backup will be removed. So you should be careful to determine to restore directly in iTunes or extract your data from backup with data recovery software.
Restore data directly from iTunes
Connect your iPhone with computer and run iTunes on your computer. Click the phone icon, then you can find Restore button on the right side. Click that button.
iTunes will list all the backups that you can restore from. Choose the backup that you need to continue.
How to extract data from iPhone backups?
If you do not want to iTunes backup overwritten your existing data on iPhone, you can choose to extract data from iTunes backups. To achieve this, you should use a data recovery software to extract the data from backup. This way also apply when your iPhone is damaged or lost.
Check your iTunes backups in your system drive to find your iTunes backups in this path: Computer>System>Users>Administrator>AppData>Roaming>AppleComputer>MobileSync>Backup. If you can see the backup, you can start your recovery.
Run H Data iPhone recovery software on your computer. You can see your iTunes backup display on the software. If not, you can click the “Browse For iTunes Backups” to choose the backup.
Choose the backup you want to store and click “Scan” button to scan from the backup.
After scan, you are able to preview all the data in backup. All the data including deleted data are displayed here.
Check the data you need and then click to export them on your computer.
Then you have successfully extract your data from iTunes backup. Open the recovery folder, you can copy the data to your devices.
Remember to back up your iPhone regularly, or you have no way to retrieve your data after you lost iPhone or the deleted data have been overwritten. And you’d better keep the iTunes backup store on your computer for future recovery.
