Data loss on iPhone is frustrating and and difficult. But with the development of data recovery technology, now data recovery on iPhone is never a difficult problem. Data recovery is possible as long as the data have not been overwritten or if you have backups. Here we will introduce you several way to retrieve your lost data from your iPhone.
1. Recover from iTunes backup
To recover from iTunes backup, you should have backups in iTunes. And if you have set the iTunes automatically sync with your iPhone, you should disable this setting to avoid data loss. You can change in iTunes, click “Edit” menu, in Devices Preferences, you should choose and check the box next to the option “Prevent the iPod, iPhone, and iPad from syncing automatically”.
Connect your iPhone with computer via an USB cable. Open the iTunes app, it will detect the device automatically. You should authorize your iPhone to be used on this computer.
Next you should click the phone icon on the interface. On the right side, click the “Restore Backup…”.
Your iPhone will be restored to the older version. This process will take some time and you should wait with patience.
As I have mentioned above, restore from iTunes backup will cause any data you have added to your iPhone since this backup to be erased.
2. Recover with third party software
If you do not want the backups overwritten your existing data on your iPhone, you can try to extract your data from your iPhone or backups, not directly restore them to iPhone.
Download, install and run H Data iPhone data recovery software on your computer where have your iPhone backups. You can search this software in Google and go to the Hdata recovery official website. You can try the free Demo version. It allows you to scan your iPhone and iTunes backup for free. You also can preview part of your data and all the photos.
Scan your iPhone or iTunes backup. Choose to recover from iPhone directly or restore from iTunes backups.
Preview the results. If you want to preview all the data and extract the data, you should click Register button on the software to activate the full version. The software allow you to preview the individual messages, and conversation on app, all the photos and pictures, the safari histories, notes.
Choose the contents that you want to recover.
In addition, you can use this recovery software to scan and directly recover from your iPhone. The recovery is similar to recover from iTunes backups. After you have successfully extract your data from your iPhone or iTunes backup, you should check in the recovery path and save them. The data recovery can only recover the data that have not been overwritten and extract data from the backups. So you should remember to back up your iPhone regularly. Use iTunes, iCloud or other tools to make copies for all your data on iPhone. With these backups, you will not lost your data even you lost your iPhone or the iPhone become corrupted.