Sometimes, erasing iPhone is a necessary measure to get rid of iPhone issues. And when you decide to sell or give your iPhone to others, you should erase data on iPhone anyway. The problems is that we often try to restore data after erasing iPhone. Factory reset will erase all the contents and settings on your iPhone. Your iPhone is restored to the factory state, so you have a brand-new iPhone. All the data on iPhone have been lost. It could be a bit difficult for you to retrieve your lost data after resetting.
How to erase iPhone?
You can choose to factory reset on your iPhone or in iTunes. But erase on iPhone do not need any USB cable, iTunes app and a computer. Reset on iPhone is very easy for you.
On the Home screen, tap on Settings>General, scroll to find Reset, and tap on “Erase All Content and Settings”. After you perform resetting, all the data will be deleted from your iPhone. You will get a brand-new iPhone. You have to activate it again. And you should restore your personal data from iCloud or iTunes.
How to recover data after erasing iPhone?
Whenever you are planning to factory reset your iPhone, you should back up all your data first. If you do not have enough space on your iCloud account, you should use the iTunes backup your iPhone. iTunes can not only back up all your personal data, but also all the settings on iPhone.
First, connect your iPhone with computer via an USB cable. The iTunes will require you to authorize this computer to connect your iPhone. It will automatically sync your iPhone with iTunes. Click phone icon, you will find Backups section on the right interface.
In the Manually Back Up and Restore option, Click Back Up Now button to begin backup. After backup, you can find the backup in the default file folder in system drive.
With the backup, you can easily restore your iPhone. You just need to click “Restore Backup..” button in iTunes.
How to recover contacts from iPhone?
After resetting iPhone, you have lost all the contacts. The choice for you is to restore contacts from iCloud account. If you do not have iCloud backup, you can only restore from iTunes backup or use an iPhone software to scan iPhone or iTunes backup. Now I’ ll introduce you how to restore contacts from iTunes backup.
Run and install H Data iPhone recovery software on the computer which stores the backup that you need. The recovery software will display the iTunes backup by itself, so you can choose the correct backup to scan. If you cannot find the backup version you need, you should select it by manual on your computer.
Click the SCAN button at the bottom. It will automatically to scan the iTunes backup that you choose. You can see the scanning progress bar on the software. In this process, you should not interrupt the scanning.
After scan, you can see all the contents in your iTunes backup. Click individual file, you can preview the details.
Tick the box next to the files you need and click the export button. The files will be exported to the location you choose. After recovery, you can decide to transfer them to iPhone with iTunes or via iCloud.