Backup is not commonly used and some people are too lazy to back up their important data. The most serious consequence is that you will lost all the data foerever that you have not back up. If you have backup, you can restore lost files easily to your iPhone. If you have iTunes backup on your computer, you can find them in the default folder.
How to access and restore files from iTunes backup?
Where is your iTunes backup?
By default, your iTunes backup is stored on your C partition in the path: C:>Users>Administrator AppData>Roaming>Apple Computer>MobileSync>Backup, you will see a folder named with a long string of alphanumeric characters. But if you click to open it ,you will find you can directly read these files on computer. If you want to access and use these files, you should restore the entire backup to your iPhone, or you can use a data recovery software for iOS devices to extract the data.
How to access iTunes backup files with data recovery software?
If you do not want to restore the entire backup to iPhone, or you do not have iOS devices now, you have to use the data recovery software.
Download and run H Data iPhone recovery software on our computer which stores your iTunes backup.
Choose one iTunes backup on the recovery software. The recovery software will detect and display them on the interface with the device’’s name, backup time. If you cannot find the backup you need, you should find it by manual.
Click the green SCAN button at the bottom to let it automatically scan the backup. It will scan all the data in your iTunes backup. Although you have deleted them before you back up iPhone, you still have chance to recover them as long as the deleted files have not been overwritten.
After scan, all the files in iTunes backup have been restored on the software interface. You can preview all of them to know if they are what you want.
Tick the data that you need and then click Export Selected Records. You are required to choose a location to store your selected files. After it prompts that Export Successful, you can access the recovered files in the recovery folder. Then you can access to each file and read them on computer, or choose to transfer them to your iPhone via iTunes or iCloud.
Access files in iCloud
If you have iCloud backup for your data, you can access and read them directly on iCloud. Sign into iCloud.com with your Apple ID, you can access to your contacts, Calendar, iCloud Drive, Notes, Reminders, Photos and other data and restore them to your iPhone. This method may be easier for you as it do not need computer and USB cable so you can complete on iPhone.
