Jail-breaking is the only way lead to a free iPhone, which means that it frees your iPhone from the limitation of pre-loaded apps. By some jailbreak tools, you can jailbreak iPhone, after that you can customize your iPhone as you like. You can install many apps that are not in Apple store. But at the same time, you should understand the risk of jail-breaking. Jail-breaking your iPhone could cause data loss, virus attack and other iPhone problems.
About jail-breaking
Jail-breaking on iPhone is a process to remove software restrictions imposed by Apple’s operating system, and allow you to download and install apps, themes and others that are not available in Apple store. What will happen if you jail-breaking your iPhone?
Possible data loss after jail-breaking
Before you start to jailbreak your iPhone, you should back up your iPhone data to avoid the possible data loss. After jailbreaking, your iPhone is easy to have virus attack and have data loss. After jailbreaking, you can install third-party software, but after that you may occasioonally find that you lost some or all of your contacts, text messages, photos, etc. In that case, if you are eager to find your lost data back, you can restore from the iTunes backup. While if you do not have any backup, your data recovery could be questionable.
Restore data after jailbreaking with iTunes backup
Connect iPhone with computer which stores your iPhone backup via USB cable.
Open iTunes and click the phone icon on the software interface.
In Backups section, you will find he button of backup and restore. Click “Restore Backup..” button to restore iPhone from backup.
Choose the backup file you want to restore and then click ‘Restore’ and wait for this process to complete.
In case you jailbreak your iPhone but you do not have any backup, can you still restore your lost data? The answer is yes. Besides the iTunes backup, iCloud backup, you still can use an iPhone data recovery software to preview and selectively recover your data.
Restore data after jailbreaking with data recovery software
If you want to selectively restore data from iPhone, you can use H Data iPhone recovery software. With the software, you can not only retrieve your lost data, but also can preview files before recovery so that you can selectively restore your data.
Step 1: Install H Data iPhone recovery software on computer. You can run this software to scan iPhone and preview all the files for free. If you want to extract your selected files out, you should use the Full version.
Step 2: Connect iPhone with computer.
Step 3: run this software and click to begin to scan iPhone.
Step 4: preview files after scanning. Selectively choose the files you need to recover.
Step 5, click to export your selected files and choose a location to store them.
After recovery, your selected data have been extract from iPhone and saved on computer. After that, you can choose to use iTunes to transfer data from computer to iPhone.