If you lost your iPhone by accident, what is the first thing you will do? If your iPhone is just lost or stolen, you should try to find your device immediately. If you can not find back your iPhone, what you can do is to erase all the data by remote. If your iPhone is not available, the last way is to recover your data from your iTunes or iCloud backup.
How to find lost iPhone?
To secure your iPhone, you not only should password protect your iPhone, but also should take some additional actions that can help you secure iPhone.
The iCloud provides a free service called “Find My iPhone”. It use your iPhone’s GPS and Internet connection to help you locate the iPhone on map so that you can find it back in time. But before you lost your iPhone, you should have turned on Find My iPhone. Once you lost your iPhone, there is no way to enable it. And also, your iPhone should be connected to Internet if you want to locate it.
Find lost iPhone in iCloud
Sign in the website of iCloud with tha account which you used to set up Find My iPhone service, go to https://ww.icloud.com/. You should have set up Find My iPhone service before you lost your iPhone. Or you have installed it on other iOS devices, you cal use this device to find your iPhone.
Click on Find iPhone in iCloud. It will automatically starts to locate all the devices you have enabled on this account. Click All devices and select the device you need to locate.
If you locate your iPhone in map, you can see a green dot which displays the location and movement of your iPhone. It will also tell your how much battery you have and give your few options.
Click Sound option. If your lost your iPhone nearby, the sound made by your iPhone can help you to find it easily.
Lock your iPhone by clicking Lost Mode. This can help you to remotely lock your iPhone screen to avoid unwanted access of data, you also can set up a password for it.
If you cannot get your iPhone back, you can choose to delete all the data on iPhone. Click Erase button and confirm that you understand then click Erase. This operation will delete all the data on your iPhone.
If you have been working hard but cannot get back your iPhone, and you have to erase your data on iPhone. You will lost iPhone and all the data on there. If you want to access your data on lost iPhone, the only way is to restore from your iCloud account or iTunes. Now I’ ll show you how to restore and extract your iPhone data from iTunes backup.
How to perform iPhone lost data recovery?
To recover iPhone data from iTunes, you should have backed up your iPhone before you lost the iPhone. The iTunes backup is stored on your computer in system drive.
Run H Data iPhone recovery software on your computer, it will detect your iTunes backup automatically, if not, you can select your backup by manual.
Choose the correct backup for your iPhone on the software interface to click “Scan”. You can configure by the device name, backup time and serial number.
The scanning process lasts for several minutes. After scan, all the data in your backup are restored on the software interface. The existing data is displayed in black, while the deleted files are in red.
Check each contents on the left side. Click the contents type which you need to restore to preview.
Check the files that you need, and click “Export Selected Records” to export the data to your computer.
After recovery, you can click to view the recovered data to use them as you like.
From above, I suggest everyone to password protect your iPhone and back up your data regularly. Although it is possible for you to find back your iPhone, you still at the risk of revealing your data. An iPhone is not cheap for most of us and privacy leaks can cause serious loss for you. Once you know that you cannot find back your iPhone, you should erase your data immediately.
